The media and male violence

A completely irrelevant anecdote given that most women's fears tend to center around being on their own in less populated environments.

Quick....tell all the females of Ireland that you've solved their problem by thinking of something they've never considered themselves.

Looks like we have some here who have watched too many Chuck Norris films who think that "something should be done" but using a car as an improvised defensive weapon - Jaysus, that's too much.

This actually ties back to the topic of women being attacked and calls on "men" to do something. The likes of Women's Aid and the NWCI have no practical suggestions and are clueless. And in fact don't want solutions seeing as their livelihood depends on women remaining victims.

Someone suggests that women should be offered self protection training and the inevitable, well practiced response is that they shouldn't have to and the mere suggestion of it constitutes victim blaming.

Using something like a car to stop an attack - there is an emotional, visceral reaction there with it likely seen as cowardly.

Plenty of people out there living in a fantasy world. Women who think that if they are attacked, some 6 foot 4, 18 stone rugby player will be around to save the day by rescuing the damsel in distress with his bare hands. Then our hero will bring her to bed afterwards.

Countering a ridiculous narrative with an even more ridiculous narrative isn't the power move you think it is.

I’m clearly no match for your petty sniping.

How could you possibly know what most women’s fears are that you imagine you could make such a claim that most women’s fears are anything?

The sort of hacks that write opinion pieces for their middle class readers have no more of a clue what most women’s fears are than you or I do. I don’t claim to know what most women’s fears are, but if anyone’s fears of anything are such an impediment to their participation in society, that’s not a social problem, and it’s not an issue that can be addressed with social policies.

It’s why I said earlier that it needs to be considered and addressed at an individual level, in the very same way as anyone with a persecution complex has an issue which can only be considered and addressed at an individual level, and if necessary through counselling.

My point, and my only point, is that the narratives being portrayed by Irish opinion writers are simply perpetuating social anxiety among their readership, and some people are more prone to it than others, a gullibility which isn’t based upon sex, and working themselves up into a frenzy.

It’s completely irrational, and as much as they’re a pain in the arse, I was glad to see young women out last night not cowering in fear at the mere sight of a man, or kowtowing to the media narrative of the bogeyman around every corner waiting to jump out and attack them.

It’s perverse, to be honest, what the media have been allowed get away with the last few years, stoking gender wars nonsense that bears very little relation to reality. It’s why I just don’t bother much with newspapers and try to limit my exposure to other shameless sources of perpetual misery porn.

Some absolute dregs of society enriching our little island these days.

Concerning that incident in London, its not beyond the realms of possibility that the driver of the car may have thought he was witnessing another brainwashed lunatic terrorist repeating the same knife wielding mass assault seen so many times before on the streets on London in recent years.

That's horrific.

He had previous convictions and arrived in Ireland February 2021. Is it too much to ask that background check be carried out? I know there's free movement in the EU, but something needs to change.