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In reply to the discussion: Man poses as woman on online dating site: barely survives 2 hours [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)That's an idea that gives men the option of distancing themselves from what women experience every day, and as such, it is harmful to the goal of getting rid of sexism. Yes, women have different experiences than men, bu that doesn't mean that our experiences aren't inextricably linked, and that men aren't intrinsic to many of those experiences. How men behave is exactly what shapes many of the experiences women have - and a lot of them are negative (see: street harassment, The Everyday Sexism project, statistics on rape in every country and so on.)
Tl;dr: Presenting what women experience as detached from men - a different world, a parallel universe - makes it easier for men to throw their hands up and continue living in the belief that they have no impact on women's lives. And that hurts women, and sometimes, it kills them.