I would say the percentage of women who have been assaulted, harassed, pushed, or coerced into a situation they didn't want to be in is much higher than 50%. Fact is society projects this image of what is a "good girl" as someone who is subservient, submissive, quiet, and dumb. A woman gets a good education she's intimidating, a woman is a good athlete she's intimidating, a woman goes outside of the "standard" and men are intimidated, put off, and worried. Because she's someone he can't control. Don't belittle or minimise it. Be part of the change. Teach your daughter to be strong, to not wilt, and to not feel as though she needs a man in her life.
Your missus or wife ever begrudgingly agree to have sex with you when she's not in the mood, tired, sick, unwilling? That in and of itself though it might seem pretty innocuous is part of what we are talking about. Almost every husband is guilty of it. I'm not innocent either. And I try to not press the issue if she's not in the mood. But this as with a lot of things goes into part of the double standard we treat women with.
We don't want her to be a slut. We want her to be a good girl, clean, quiet, submissive. But we also want her to be a slut. We don't want her to be stupid. But we also don't want her to earn more money than us. We don't want her to be fat, but we want to eat pizza and burgers. It's a fucked up world being a woman and it doesn't get any easier. And by denying this, by dismissing it, by claiming men have a hard time too you are trying to sweep it under the rug. And that my friend is not cool.
