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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Male/female doesn't have anything to do with it imo

It has a lot to do with it to be honest. I don't think either group was behaving well but the implied threat with a group of blokes is completely different than a group of drunk girls. We do a disservice to everyone by ignoring that, and the "equality should mean this is equal too blah blah" argument is MRA-adjacent nonsense really. Being surrounded by a group of drunk blokes is physically intimidating in a way that being surrounded by a group of women is not. There's an inherent difference.

That doesn't mean groups of females can't be intimidating in other ways, or even that they can't be physically intimidating (e.g. there are plenty of female gangs in the big cities who will absolutely **** up your face) but that's clearly not what's going on here.

Again I'm not condoning the behaviour of either group, just pointing out that it's not intimidating in the same way as it would be if they were males. Pretending there "isn't a difference"... well it's just a lie isnit.