Do men need a license to be allowed socialise (MOD NOTE IN OP)

An acquaintance I know worked in HR for a medical company, here in Ireland. One place she supervised, was about 50-60 women, all working in the same lab. These are lab conditions, so they can't wear jewellery, makeup, anything- any particle could mess up the output. (They make prosthetics. My brother worked in a similar place, years ago. One dust particle would mean your output for the day might be scrapped). Anyways, every day, she was getting complaints from employees -'this woman is bullying me' and then later in the evening 'No, she was bullying me'. She would have folders of complaints, every day. Well, finally she realised what she needed-Testosterone. She'd have 'pumped it in through the AC' if she could.

So she had two employees leaving- either retiring, or moving to another gig. She knew she couldn't hire two more women, especially two ladies in their late teens, or early 20s. Dropping them into that would be like dropping them into a war. She needed men. So the first CV's she saw, of two broad shouldered, good looking guys- probably not the most qualified, but it didn't matter, she hired them. All complaints stopped. No more 'bullying' letters. The ladies were distracted.

I've spotted it with some individuals I've known. Some thinking that's, a tad worrying. I know Peter Casey tried to appeal to that demographic, and he got a lot of votes.

And you’d accept male only pubs and clubs too I take it? I’m sure the men would like to have a peaceful night out with the lads without the cat calls, objectification and groping from women!

Women have been giving out for years about sexism and how men only golf clubs were so wrong.

This idea of yours would take us back years . Maybe they should introduce the snug back in the pub so women wouldnt have to mingle in the pub with all these dangerous men !

That’s a contentious road to go down though, even if it’s safety minded. Men have been browbeaten into giving up male only spaces such as Portmarnock Golf Club, which was cheered on by many feminist groups. Perfectly fine if you want a woman only pub but men need to be allowed the option of a men only pub too if that’s what they want.

Grab your coat on the way out...

Steven Pinker was making a similar point a couple of years ago and got lambasted for it. When the media indulges in comfortable lies so easily, when people do stumble onto a bit of reality they can react by jumping straight to the opposite extreme. It's all very well saying 'ah you can't take even a little criticism, man up for god's sake', when it's an obvious deception and slur that goes unchallenged like this, people start to identify with the only ones raising a more sympathetic point of view. I think it is actually accelerating, this rush to the extremes.

You need to separate the stats/

Who perpetrates most attacks on women, what is percent men v women .

Who perpetrates most attacks on men, what is percent men v women .

I think men win both of these in a landslide, but because there are far more men on men crimes people like to bundle women into the pile and say '' look, see, men are more likely to be a victim of a crime''

People are not numbers, you need to look at things in two groups

You need to look at all the stats. A vast number of violent crimes and assaults are carried out by a very small number of men. You only need to read the 'previous convictions' line in reports on violent crime to see that. Centuries ago, men like this didn't last as long as they do now, as most people carried at least one knife or other weapon. Now they continue to exist as a highly destructive outlier group and we haven't really figured out a way to deal with them properly.

The same applies for the mentally ill. They used to be locked up in horrendous institutions and these were eventually shut down because of the inhumane conditions. The people that would have previously been confined in these are either roaming free or in prison.

I can tell you from personal experience that they dont or at least a fair bit of the time they dont. But thats beside the point

You cant assume the behaviour of every man in Ireland. 99.9999% who you dont even know will behave like what posts on an anonymous message board say they will.

I just popped into Twitter to see what’s being said and left 5 mins later. Boards is like an Oxford debating society compared to what’s being said on Twitter.

Nope it's not worth jumping in to domestics - no matter how brave you are feeling when you witness it. I have been there and done that - got a stilletto across the head for my troubles of decking her "boyfriend" who was only 60 seconds beforehand beating the **** out of her in a doorway. She got a slap as well because naturally, don't hit someone in the head with a stiletto and expect not to get something back. Then she tried to tell the gardai that I was the one who started the aggro....Thankfully there were sober witnesses to put holes in her story. Learned my lesson that night and now, unless a female is literally screaming out for help, I'm wouldn't bother putting on the white knight jacket.