> Yet if someone claimed a racial incident, would you be so quick to run to the latest peer reviewed study to verify that this group has victim status and the other group has perp status? Or would you say something along the lines of “believe women”, and “lived experiences are real experiences”?

Not an accurate representation of the situation at all. You are going too far in an attempt to make a point, inventing things out of thin air that don’t actually exist.

We know that gender biases and mistreatment of women is a real problem. The rhetoric of “believing women” is meant to counter the specific phenomena whereby the experiences of women are ignored or belittled while that of men aren’t. It isn’t a generic device meant to applied to all situations.

> I suppose I could claim generalization in the other direction. Something bad happens to a minority, the offender went out of their way to be aggressive/etc, Every. Single. Time. I can literally say this about any kind of aggression. White-on-white aggression in the burbs, black-on-black in the city, man-on-woman, women-on-man, etc. > Here’s a suggestion- what if that one incident you heard fourth hand through the media isn’t always the reality every sees?

Here’s a better suggestion: what if we rely less on fourth hand incident reported through the media and instead look at statistical data and studies instead? How about that huh? How about you stop trying so damn hard to both sides the situation, look at the data (not anecdata) on what happens and then use that in your decision making?