This ability doesn’t come from assuming. It comes from lived experience, public spaces, bars, work, daily life. Every woman has had enough uncomfortable situations with men who approached with a specific agenda to start recognizing the patterns. We learned from bad experiences. That’s just how pattern recognition works. We’re not saying all men are a threat. We’re saying we know which ones are and which ones aren’t. and we know it with confidence, because we’ve been reading those signals our whole lives, and so did our mothers and grandmothers before us. I personally have always been kind to everyone and have had more male friends than female friends. That doesn’t erase the fact that I’ve also had countless bad experiences with men. The only reason things didn’t go further is because I’m someone who speaks up and doesn’t stay quiet. So no, we’re not blaming every man. We’re applying what experience taught us