I first entered this forum some years ago, much younger and a lot more naive, when I posted something asking women for dating advice. I was seeking a very specific sort of advice. Being a very young man, I was looking for a young woman to date, and I wasn't finding any in the places that I was going to. I wondered where they were. The answer, as it turned out, was that they were hiding at home, when they weren't at work or at school.

Concern about sexual assault had escalated into outright paranoia among many of the young women at the time, and this paranoia was actively promoted by a number of the older women and by campus literature distributed at the time. Young women were often told that it just wasn't safe for them to go out at night, and certainly dating was far too dangerous for them to even think about. Occasionally, one would overhear such commentary be offered in a conversation, in which a young woman would say something like, "That's ridiculous. I'm not supposed to go out? How am I supposed to have a social life? How am I supposed to meet anybody?". The older woman she was speaking to responding by saying something like "Well, if you want to get raped, it's your choice."

Implying that any woman who went outdoors was choosing to be raped, without being so honest as to come out and openly make this outrageous remark. No, instead, bullying the young woman into silence by preying on her fears. By browbeating her into accepting what was said, without thinking about it further and seeing just how absurd it was. Also, there is sort of a veiled threat, there, that if the young woman goes out, people will think that it is her own fault if she is attacked, and will refuse to do anything to help her. Again, ridiculous, but a good browbeating can often short circuit rational thought before it has a chance to go in a direction that the speaker doesn't like, and allow the one browbeaten to see how little of a real threat backs up the browbeating. Indeed, before the target can even consciously identify what her fears are, in order to subject them to rational scrutiny.

One couldn't help but notice some of those women who gave such warnings weren't at all shy about going out, themselves. In general, while young women were scarce in a lot of public places, middle aged women were as easily found as ever. The reason was simple enough. The campaign of fear, masquerading as an attempt to increase "rape awareness", was a lie and the older women who encouraged it, didn't believe in it, themselves.

"Well, why would they do that?", one might ask. One answer can quickly be found in a simple demographic observation. Every notice how many men there are who are about Bill Clinton's age, with ex-wives about their own age and much younger current wives? There used to be a cynical expression about turning in one's 40 year old wife for two 20 year olds. This used to be more than a joke, especially given the media generated fad of the late 70s and early 80s of young women seeking much older mates. (This was encouraged by a series of magazine articles on the level of those found in "Cosmopolitan", purporting to "prove" that women matured far more quickly than men, concluding that a young woman had the emotional maturity of a much older man. A conclusion that was often argued, once someone bought this, was that the woman should date her emotional equal).

End result, more than a few middle aged women came to see younger women as a threat to their marriages or as a serious threat to their dating lives, were they still single. The young woman, seeing the older woman as a well meaning person with more experience, ended up seeking advice from someone who might well have seen her as a potential competitor, and that advice, often, was really not well intentioned at all. This bit of advice that I mentioned, "stay home unless you want to be raped", is a classic example. "Their" men couldn't choose to go chasing the young "bimbos" if those "girls" never went out and weren't there to be met, and never mind whether or not that old fad was still going, whether or not those young "girls" especially wanted to date someone that old, or, for that matter, whether or not the words "bimbo" or "girl" were especially appropriate.

If you think that this has changed, think about this. Ever notice how much encouragement a young women with a striking figure gets from her elders when she considers breast reduction surgery? Go find a few young men, work on convincing them that you won't be judgmental about their response and get an honest, as opposed to a "sensitive" response to the question, "What look do you find attractive, and do you think that this change will be an improvement?". You'll find that these "friendly" old ladies, who have long since ceased to turn heads, are actively encouraging the ones who do, to do things that will make them less attractive to the opposite sex. It's hard not to see more than a little jealous spite in that. Much the same can be said about the tatoos, piercings, brandings, etc., which young men almost universally "know better" than to comment on, but practically none of them actually find pleasant to look at. "Possible to endure" is more like it.

Ever notice, how when one of those younger men timidly offers the observation that he is kind of repulsed by a change in her appearance that his girlfriend is considering, how quick some of the older "sisters" are to jump in and say that this is none of his business, and pressure her to not think about what he finds attractive. (Ever notice how nobody ever seems to ask, what make this any of their business). "Sisterhood", as radical feminism defines it, is, indeed, a scam, designed to teach those who are insufficiently cautious to invest trust in total strangers whose interests may be at odds with their own, who have no real emotional connection to them, merely because they are also female, before trusting those they know and have a real emotional bond with, who happen to be male. It is the lie, that one can put 53% of the population before one's mate in one's loyalties and still have a meaningful relationship. It is a movement that teaches young women to become the sort of people that few men would desire, and in the process, cease to be much of a threat, imagined or otherwise.

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