Toxic Masculinity Is the Real Problem Behind Women's Harassment

Are you the 95% of dudes who don't harass women or do other obnoxious sh** to compensate for your inadequacy? Or are you the 5% of toxic-males who do because you feel the need to prove to yourself you're a tough guy?

This is directed at the f***s that give dudes a bad rap. Recognize the problem and be part of the solution. Quit b*tching and whining and thinking of only yourself.

never met an alpha who called himself one

Nice zinger, %

Who are the idiots that go around showing female runners their junk? If you are one of these idiots, has it ever worked for you?

Damn, Steve must've really broke her heart back in the day. Let it go, lady.

I just always get angry when I see men enjoying a cool, freeing nighttime run. I get mad because I’m jealous. Women can’t run at night. Because that’s when the murderers come out.

I stopped reading there in the 2nd paragraph because the basis of her article is completely wrong. I am male and don't run in the dark (morning or night) because I do not want to be shot or stabbed. The majority of the people I see running in the dark are women, not men.

I could tell you so much about you based on your post.

I once saved a girl that was being attacked alone a running trail. I have also smashed many beer cans on my forehead. Am I toxic?

Natural male behavior is very scary to brainwashed women, cucks, fem guys, communism, effete types, media types, etc.

Why were you even at RW.com? If it weren't for LRC I would never know what drivel they are publishing.

Why is she making fun of people named Steve? That is mean.

What about Toxic Femininity? That's the real problem.

Interesting article. No verifiable statistics or facts provided just this persons feeling of being unsafe whenever leaving the house apparently, but only while running I guess.

When I got RW in the mail Saturday, the cover heading jumped out at me... "84% of women runners have been harassed, assaulted, or even murdered while running. THIS. MUST. STOP. Here's how/ P. 41.

Intrigued, I turned to page 41 and found 23 pages addressing this topic. The article cited by the OP was probably the worst and left me shaking my head in disbelief. Basically, the message was, "I don't feel safe while running. Men can feel safe, but I can't! It's not fair! Somebody (not me!), do something about it!"

The article "How to Defend Yourself" had me shaking my head again. The opening sentence reads: "You don't need to learn how to defend yourself from an attacker." Okaaay... that's an interesting opening statement, given the title of the article. It then describes some self-defense moves, which is about as useful as giving someone a few paragraphs on how to perform a gymnastic move and expecting them to be able to do it. There was no advice whatsoever on how to find self-defense classes.

I think it's really a disservice to women to write so many pages and omit so much potentially life-saving information. Such as...

1. Maintain situational awareness. (There's actually a technique to this. An entire article should have been written on how to maintain situational awareness. It's routinely taught in most firearms classes.)

2. Run with someone else if at all possible.

3. Don't just read about self-defense. Take a self-defense course. Ask around and find a good instructor. Invite some of your friends to go with you. Reading about some self-defense move is not going to hack it should you ever need to react in a split second.

4. Consider proactive self-defense weapons and take a course to learn how to use it/them. Learn the pros and cons of pepper spray, stun guns, knives, and handguns. (I recognize that 9 out of 10 women would never consider such weapons, but it is a huge disservice to those that MIGHT consider them to not even mention them as options.)

5. For goodness sake, don't play the victim card like the author of the toxic masculinity article. Take charge of your own safety as much as possible.

In short, this was like a lot of RW's articles... big on promise, but superficial and having multiple errors of omission.

Mean while running world keeps photoshopping their covers to make the women on them have bigger breasts.

I think this author really missed the point here. I live and run in a city and I will say that I rarely let my wife run alone and when she does she will carry pepper spray. I also do a lot of my runs at night in the fall/winter and don't feel completely secure and safe myself. I've been robbed and threatened before as a male. I don't think the issue is toxic masculinity as much as it is just general ignorance and mental illness. The men harassing women in the city I live in are generally homeless and crazy.

The author appears to be a big-time runner who has lots of credibility covering the sport. I am glad that Runner's World is finding such great sports journalists.

If you've been robbed/attack while running, try running faster.

Being responsible for yourself is the anthesis of the liberal’s core belief. That’s not a joke or an exaggeration.