At the moment we have a debate about street harassment. We have an attractive women who filmed herself for 10 hours and who argues that she shouldn't be approached in the way she is. ...
Yes, but the features of the approach are quite different. Men get approached a lot by folks who are selling stuff or fundraising, also by bums/homeless folks. Women get a lot of approaches for personal intimacy, and these do get quite tiring after a while.
Men generally don't have a fear to get raped by strangers.
A while ago I went home at 4AM. ...
Yes, women have to care more about personal safety, out of necessity. Most people are aware of that. But try walking around the sketchy part of town and telling me that some folks don't make you uncomfortable. This is why we all do things like moving to a "good" neighborhood, or wearing an office suit and tie in order to show our refined professionalism and politeness/civility. All this shows is that variation in local circumstances can lead to subsequent changes in behavior, not that there's any difference between genders.
Yes, but the features of the approach are quite different. Men get approached a lot by folks who are selling stuff or fundraising, also by bums/homeless folks. Women get a lot of approaches for personal intimacy, and these do get quite tiring after a while.
No, in this case the attractive man also get's "approaches for personal intimacy" in the same sense that the women gets "approaches for personal intimacy" (she probably wouldn't label them that way)
...Yes, women have to care more about personal safety, out of necessity. Most people
Sometimes our minds suddenly "click" and we see a topic in a new light. Or sometimes we think we understand an idea, think it's stupid and ignore attempts to explain it ("yeah, I already know that"), until we suddenly realize that our understanding was wrong.
This kind of insight is supposedly hard to transmit, but it might be worth a try!
So, what kind of important and valuable insights do you wish you had earlier? Could you try to explain briefly what led to the insight, in a way that might help others get it?