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Why isn't there another forest that traps girls?
Why aren't there some people immune to falling branches?
Why can't some boys be freed by boys?
But more generally, why bend over backwards to invent some convoluted justification for rape?
The individual who wrote this is calling for help, I'll observe.
I don't have much in the way of charitability in me, and little patience for helping people, but I can't help but notice that where someone else would get sympathy (physically disabled people certainly get at least some measure of sympathy for this very complaint), this person belongs to a class of people who get nothing but scorn and derision instead.
Why would you interpret it this way, when there are more charitable and better fitting interpretations? Not everything has to be about gender.
It's a fable about sexual politics. Gender is inescapable to the discussion.
When I reverse the genders, or make the branch lifters those with blonde hair, the story still works. I disagree with your statement.
The story would be improved by making it about hair color, actually.
If any of those other scenarios were applicable, the fable wouldn't have been written in the first place.