It's a scary time for men...

There's a meme I've seen floating around on social for some time now that I find more factually true and perplexing than anything else. What changed?

When I think about the last twenty years, there are many ways technology has changed our lives, and made them...more streamlined, simply by introducing smart phones/devices and the development of apps. I don't even have to actually speak to anyone when ordering food (thank GOD).

Need to make dinner tonight but won't have time to stop at the store, navigate a sea of neanderthals who are completely unaware of their surroundings and block literally every item you need with their cart? Grab your phone - Wal-Mart, Instacart, PrimeNow, etc. will ALL deliver broccoli tots and Pringles directly to your door within hours. (No, that's not what I eat for dinner...all the time.) For nearly everything on your to-do list, there's an app for that, as they say.

But literally NOTHING has changed when it comes to the dangers people face when dealing with humans. And by people I mean women, and by humans I mean men. And before I continue, save it. Save the random 4.2 stories you found about women randomly targeting men in acts of violence and assault. This has been, since the dawn of time and is still currently, a frightening, frustrating, maddening epidemic. Why are we letting some random psycho named David, in his claret red 1995 Dodge Stratus, pick us up at bar close? David just spent an hour in his mom's basement sweating profusely and angrily pounding the crusty keyboard of his Dell desktop whilst commenting on an incel forum because Debra wouldn't touch his semi-flaccid penis after he told her he liked her scrunchy.

David might have next to no folds in his brain, but it doesn't take much of a frontal lobe to figure out there exists a plethora of apps that give you access to vulnerable, alone, drunk women that double as a punching bag when the girl you smiled at wasn't into using your ill-manicured nether-region as a lollipop.

The mere existence of services like Lyft and Uber prove that there is little to no consideration of the lives women lead. It's not hard to find articles, posts and anecdotes about "the time I almost died". I guarantee 9 out of 10 women have an experience in which if it wasn't for the grace of god or sheer luck, they'd be lying face down in a ditch. Nearly every day I read about some psychopath with a micropenis who found it necessary to torment a woman.

This was today's, and the catalyst for this post. I never take an uber/lyft alone, I rarely take them with other people. Men, were you ever taught to walk to your car with your keys between your fingers like some dime store Wolverine? Or to never walk to your car alone? Or to pretend you're on the phone in an attempt to deter a predator? Or to not wear anything that reveals your shoulders or your knees? No? Then be the change. Acknowledge this BULLSHIT. And if that's too difficult, if it's too hard to start at the root and figure out WHY these poor men need to brutally rape women behind dumpsters, or shoot them in the face, or pick them up from a bar after a night out with friends only to drive them somewhere desolate and abuse them - maybe we could just make pepper spray legal? You know, like the AR-15 no one needs and can accidentally take someone's life in a matter of seconds instead of just like...making their wittle eyes burn for a couple of hours while we run as fast and as far as we can to the nearest therapist to discuss the super fucked up situation we just endured?

You might call me cynical - but that's a far better adjective than violently assaulted and faceless.

But yeah, it totes is a super scary time for men.