This social media outpouring makes it clear that some men pose a real threat to the physical and psychic welfare of women and girls. But obscured in the public conversation about the violence against women is the fact that some other men are more likely to protect women, directly and indirectly, from the threat of male violence: married biological fathers. The bottom line is this: Married women are notably safer than their unmarried peers, and girls raised in a home with their married father are markedly less likely to be abused or assaulted than children living without their own father.
The Washington Post embarrasses itself, everyone who reads it and the entire human race with its take on what #YesAllWomen is “really” teaching us – that women should get married and know their place for their own safety.
I swear to god, this is really the last line of the piece: “So, women: if you’re the product of a good marriage, and feel safer as a consequence, lift a glass to dear old dad this Sunday.” Holy crap.