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I'll speak for myself and be totally honest...
I think about sex a lot, I have sexual thoughts about a lot of women I meet, see, work with, are friends with. Last time I checked it was fairly healthy for that to have happen.
Here's the thing though, they're are merely thoughts that, like quantum flux, fleetingly pop into existence and leave just as fast. I, and other men, despite having these thoughts, still respect women, still like to engage women in intelligent conversation, and still like to get to know the women we come across as people. In other words, we are perfectly capable of control ourselves and being respectful, decent human beings.
Personally, in my own country, I still believe sexism is rampant and a lot of blokes need to really readjust their attitudes. Especially fucking footballers in our various codes of sport. I absolutely abhor the treatment women receive in other countries. And I think women should be able to wear what ever the hell they like and not have men see it as an invitation to be assaulted.
I will back women's issues 100% in most cases, but I will not stand for having people presume my intentions or my character simply because I'm male and initiate an innocent conversation. If that's the attitude one wants to take, than one should go live in the mountains alone. Your shit world view is simply not my problem. I personally get a little riled up by even being indirectly a potential rapist because I've been the victim of sexual abuse myself. Yes, men can get the short end of the stick too.
But as heated and divisive as this thread has become, lets just step back and remember that we interact with people of opposite sex nearly every day of our lives and on the whole, they're OK. The cold hard reality is we need each other, differences and all, and taking an us and them attitude isn't going to make your life or any ones lives any easier, it just involves more people getting pissed off.
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You are not a slave
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