Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged?

[drfuzzy]

So, it's not that you distrust all men....only the aggressive and competitive ones?  




This is a minefield man, all directions lead to ruin.

Is it?  We live in a world where the number one cause of death in women is men.  Rape is a spectator sport.  One in four women has been raped by her father.  Every American woman is afraid walking alone at night.   Everybody knows a woman who has been beaten.  

Competition has been a good thing for the human race, and leads to cultural and scientific gains, so I probably should not have included it.  Aggression and violence, though - yes, these are quite dangerous things.  Yes, I admit --  I can think of a number of guys who were very aggressive in behavior, who were proud of how well they could fight, who would deliberately get in fights on the street and brag about putting guys in the hospital - - - hell yes, I distrusted them.  And most of the guys did too.  It's the attitude. And to display that attitude openly usually requires a culturally-based support of it.

Am I saying ALL males?  No.  I'm saying that there is a problem, and I'll go further and say that it won't be solved until males take a stand against it.