Something that my father taught me is the lesson of sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. Sheep are not necessarily idiots, sheeple, etc.- they are people too weak to defend themselves. Wolves are men who use their strength to prey on sheep, and sheepdogs are men who use their strength to defend sheep. My father taught me that I should be a sheepdog: I may never feel that constant fear of being raped- but it is something I am aware of and take steps to mitigate when a strange woman is in my presence (e.g., don't stare, keep interactions brief and polite, etc.) To be male is to be powerful enough to hurt others- to be a man is to be strong enough to keep that power under control, and use it to protect the weak from the strong. I feel not enough boys are taught this fundamental lesson.
I know some Kiwis will disagree with me here, but I really think the current "troons preying on women" madness derived from the feminism of the mid to late 1900s. In particular, it came from the belief that chivalry was inherently sexist- that a man using his strength to protect a woman is somehow wrong. Of course, men could have used their strength and whatever cultural hegemony they had to push back, but that would have been using their strength on women- something they had been taught not to do. So the sheepdogs bowed out, because they were told they were too much like wolves and any pushback was interpreted as them behaving in a wolfish manner. So now the real wolves are circling the flock, and there are no sheepdogs to protect the sheep.
Consider: it is largely women pushing back against the troons. Men simply don't step in unless they, or a woman they care about, is personally threatened. Otherwise, they simply watch as J. K. Rowling is #Canceled, as Jonathan Yaniv forces poor migrant women to wax his balls, and as trannies demand lesbians to suck that girldick. They sit on their hands as Labelle demands access to women's only spaces, as Kevin Gibes spouts his mysoginistic screeds under the guise of transgender rights, and as boys pretend to be girls so they can dominate women's sports. They have been told that women are equally capable as men and that using their strength to protect women is wrong, so they do nothing but watch the flock get devoured.
But men sitting by while women suffer is nothing new. Edmund Burke, an Irish stateman, saw Marie Antoinette when she was the dauphiness and firmly believed all of France would cry for war if someone even looked at her wrong. When he heard she had been dragged screaming to the guillotine, he wrote the following:
I know some people will agree, and some will disagree. This is just some old man's rambling thoughts on the topic; take them as you will.
