"Women are much more likely to receive threats because they are more vulnerable"
So you are saying that women are different and need to be treated in a different way than men? I thought we were trying to avoid this and treat women the same as men?
I think we should treat someone that's receiving death and rape threats on a daily basis differently than someone who does not. That we should treat someone that's more likely to be raped or killed differently than someone who is not that likely. And because the people receiving death and rape threats are also the people more likely getting raped and killed, that makes something considered as "taunting" much more real.
You are right, we should avoid treating women differently than men, that's something we're all able to agree on. That does not mean that men and women in our societies are treated the same as of now.
Women should not be considered as more vulnerable, yet that's how they are perceive, and that's also what they are being taught:
- don't fight, don't fight back
- always smile and be pretty
- don't get angry, that just shows you're hysterical/on your period/pregnant and hormone-crazy
- agree with the males, especially when they make sexist jokes, that makes you really cool
- don't be a feminist and try to improve your condition
We should not treat women differently than men, but letting society/communities/bullies target one group more than the other and then refusing to acknowledge it or to empathize with it, seems like a convenient way of not taking responsability, as a society/community, and not try to improve ourselves.
So you are saying that women are different and need to be treated in a different way than men? I thought we were trying to avoid this and treat women the same as men?