They are a lot less likely to be killed, spat on, or cursed out in other situations (although that’s not always true either). I refer you back to what you said about your mother’s experiences as a nurse. What part of this don't you understand? JFC!
Maybe you know how to read women's body language, but it's well documented that a lot of men do not, because they've been taught they don't need to. What they want is automatically what the woman wants too, because women exist for men's pleasure. When they do actually bother to learn to read a woman's cues, they are quite capable of doing it. They mostly just never bother. And because they’ve been taught that women exist for them, a woman’s rejection is taken as an outrageous slap in the face, rather than simply one human expressing they don’t feel similar interest in another human. Looking down your nose at women who don’t want to risk being spat on, yelled at, or killed for telling a man no directly is just the worst kind of demeaning, dehumanizing, misogynistic bullshit.
"Sexual overperception bias is a far-reaching cognitive error as it potentially rests at the core of a number of workplace harassment incidences. In a corporate landscape where people are often conspicuously warm and amiable with one another, the opportunity for misperceptions in sexual interest is unfortunately vast.
A 2016 study by a special task force under the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, found that 60% of women say they experience “unwanted sexual attention, sexual coercion, sexually crude conduct, or sexist comments,” in the workplace. Although there are certainly a number of factors that contribute to the issue, addressing the sexual overperception bias is a strong starting point in understanding and rectifying the injustices women experience in the workplace.
She also discovered that men were more likely than women to perceive interactions in sexual terms and make sexual judgments, and that male participants seemed to perceive mere friendliness from females as seduction. (Something that was a key point in this OP). Mona says that women back away from everyday friendliness when it’s clear to them it’s been misconstrued as sexual interest by someone who may well just flip out and hurt you if you tell them directly that you don’t like them in that way. Did you even read this essay at all. She laid it out quite clearly?
How you clearly believe things “ought” to be has little bearing on the actual dynamics and sometimes life-threatening challenges that women often face. Educate yourself about this stuff — there’s ample research and science on all of it.
