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All men are dangerous
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this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2026
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I think the sentiment kicking off the husband explaining should have been "men are dangerous." Then the shark metaphor makes sense, because enough men are dangerous and a low-probability but nonzero outcome for choosing incorrectly is so severe (rape, death, kidnapping) that it makes sense to have a prejudicial heuristic to treat them all as dangerous until reasonably proven otherwise.
"All men are dangerous" is an absolute statement and just poor semantic logic, so yeah, this is confusing.
I hate statements like this, where they clearly only say part of what they mean, as a way to make it more sensationalist. I would bet what the original OP was actually meaning is “Act as if all men could be dangerous”. Personally I find that an understandable take, when the minority is so dangerous to you what else can you do.
But instead they choose to phrase it “All men are dangerous”. Indefensibly prejudice against half of the population for something outside of their control.
The post says they know not all men are dangerous, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good saying, just that they are knowingly stating something they know to be untrue. The only reason to leave the quiet part out of the statement is rage bait.