I said equivalent not Identical. And their is an equivalent experience for men which is the assault of ones physical boundaries regardless of gender. It is very true that women get raped in large majority by men but to conclude that instances like this where a man slaps a women on the ass tap into an inner fear of being raped is purely conjecture. I would agree that their are women with this type of fear, most likely that have some history or abuse in some form of fashion may have this fear, but generally when this shit happens most women like men would be simply pissed that someone crossed a boundary they should not. Infantalizing women into beings that fear rape at every waking moment is honestly, just nonsense. Women can be just as shitty as men in this department especially because of narratives like yours that minimize acts that are committed against men.
The feelings of that treatment are dependent on the individual, there are women that actually like that type of behavior in certain contexts as do some men, but on a whole most men and women would not like a stranger slapping their ass, especially in the context of work. I agree that the ramifications are VERY different between the genders in that the media will rightly shed light on the loser who did this and he will be publicly shamed, and will most likely lose his job if his employers get a hold of this tape. Unfortunately, if the genders were reversed I doubt there would be half as much outrage which is nothing short of Idiotic. Also, lets not act like Sexual Objectification does not also have some Extremely positive benefits on a scale that do not exist for men and many women knowingly and willing enter into this arrangement for these benefits. And the stigma of being sexual assaulted does exist for both men and women, in different ways, women on a whole are rightly defended with moral outrage , men on the other hand are expected to suck it up and take it or be considered soft.
What you are stating as a common sense is in fact just common excuses that are used to uphold B.S. double standards between the genders. So lets cut to the chase, your basically saying that sexually assaulting a women is a worse offense to sexually assaulting a man right? So does that mean that women deserve lighter punishments for the same act? So public moral outrage should continue to punish male offenders while sweeping female offenders under the rug? Regardless of individual experience, an negative act is an negative act period..... and should be equally condemned and punished period.
Ok. You just went off on some big tangent about something I'm not talking about.
This story has nothing to do with men, and you and some others saw this video and went straight to a "but a woman did that to me once..../I thought we were equal now?/yadayadayada" arguments...which, again, has nothing to with what happened in this story.
You had a canned rant prepared.
I didn't infantalize women. Rape was just an example, not the only potential issue that women have to deal with when being sexually harassed, objectified, or assaulted..and you just ran with that as if my point was about a mass rape epidemic or something.
The point was that when it comes to sexuality, there are many issues that women have to deal with in society that men do not, and most of those issues can be physically and socially harmful to them. So to make an equivalence on this matter is stupid.
Men and women are not the same, and not every situation has a universal or equal truth, no matter how black and white you want to see the world.
If a 5'3 woman assaulted you, would you fight her the same way you would fight a man of your size?
We have differences, inherent, and imposed on us by society that shape our interactions with one another.
There are universal truths between the sexes, but they arent all universal.