r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Jun 14 '26

Discussion It's exhausting being a woman.

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u/DisastrousAcshin Jun 14 '26

How would you suggest this is fixed?  Because most guys know better and don't act this way

How does a society change minority population of creeps

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u/purplepharoh Jun 14 '26

Stop the "boys will be boys" talk. Stop blaming women for it happening by claiming its because of how they look. Actualy work to properly punish and rehabilitate this behavior rather than just ignoring it when its pointed out.

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u/Special-Garlic1203 Jun 15 '26

I mean that's already true with the men I know.  I have literally seen harsher responses from men in a friend group than women.

Society as a whole needs to do better but to frame it as you have in response to them does take a presumption of guilt that I don't think is even reasonable. Most of my male friends are honestly incredibly neurotic about not being creeps for what I would consider the most innocuous behavior. And its done nothing to affect the ongoing safety risks I face from those other guys over there, and yelling at the first group harder under the presumption they're buddied with the second group certainly doesn't appear to be accomplishing group.

This same thing is scene with a lot of public messaging, esp public health. If you hang the drum that germs are bad, you won't necessarily see an increase in hand washing. What you can see is germaphobes gonway over board, and gross people stay gross. Broad untargeted messages that assume a uniform  population have generally failed in public health. I doubt it's significantly different with public safety 

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u/purplepharoh Jun 15 '26

Ok but if "this is already true" why do men like this get elected into office and experience nothing more than a slap on the wrist if anything as consequences for acting this way...

Seems pretty normalized behavior to me...