For 50 years feminism has failed to recognise the truth embedded in the old catchphrase, ‘lock up your daughters’. Male and female sex drives and proclivities are not the same, and pretending they are sets up our most vulnerable women, and especially teens, for damage.
With all due respect to the many good men out there, women have always needed some protection from male predators, which is why traditional societies tightly regulated the interactions of the sexes, using everything from strict sex segregation to chaperones, curfews, and burqas.
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