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Enough of a portion of women have had to deal with men abusing them in some way (physically, psychologically, socially, etc) that it's something that impacts all women. I don't know a single women that doesn't have an experience where a man felt and acted entitled to her body.
Why is giving out fake phone #'s a thing? Because just saying no results in abusive situations often enough
If violence against women was a rare thing then I might agree that the statement is offensive, or at least I'd entertain the idea. But violence against women is endemic in our society. The # of women who have been raped or attempted rape isn't in the 1 in 1000 or 1 in 10,000 level. It's in the 1 in 3 level (or 1 in 4 or whatever, I don't know the actual stats, but it's a single digit fraction).
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It's 1 in 4 (
http://sacha.ca/fact-sheets/statistics) and there are some other alarming stats on the link as well. And I think those are Canadian stats. I imagine some other countries are better/safer, but many many countries are likely worse.
I appear to be out of thanks, but that was a good post.