Almost all countries have special laws to protect women, but none for men. Is it that men do not need any protection? Well we will see that in a while. But meanwhile we will see the reason behind extra women protection laws. One of the most obvious reasons is, the usual perception that, "Men are aggressors and Women are victims" because of the obvious physical superiority that men possess in addition to the arguments given in "Man's Power Tussle leads to Man's Struggle".

But is the benchmark of physical aggression enough to deny protection? The answer is NO. Because physical aggression is a benchmark for decision in a battle field, and not in social ambiance where there is pacification. In social context, physical aggression is mostly a follower of emotional aggression. The violence first starts at emotional level and then progresses on to physical level.

In line with my arguments in Women are Wonderful, I would like to re-iterate a fact here that women are emotionally smarter than men. They are psychologically better suited to handle emotional turmoil by nature of their design and are in a better position to sense and feel pain, be it their own pain or someone else's pain. Also since they are better equipped and encouraged to express themselves, women are in a better position when it comes to discussion and redressal of problems. This also leads to women being emotionally more aggressive than men. And in that case the woman is more responsible for the violence because emotional aggression is the start of violence.

However, men do not have the luxury of either the freedom to express their pain or the ability to sense their fellow brethren's pain. And this limitation arises from the fact that they have been accorded with the titles of the Protector and the Provider which requires them to strong, robust and aggressive. But at the same time it does not allow them to express their pains as it portrays them as ‘Weak' and the environments in which men work, weak men are automatically thrown out of the system.

As a result of this mandatorily required psychological distance to be maintained from emotions, men become emotionally numb and cannot sense pain or problems in their relationship at early stage unless the problem assumes catastrophic proportions. This makes them unable to sense problems when the ‘storm' is brewing. This also leads to the society being unaware of the problems that men face because by the time the man can sense it and react the damage is already done and the society (including the men), thinks that the ‘man' should have prevented the damage by taking early steps because society is unaware of the inability of men to communicate because what they can't feel, cannot communicate.

This is the reason, I feel men need more protection because,

1. Society is not aware of the problems that men face and thus more resources are required to be invested in enriching that knowledge.
2. Women's problems are well known and there are legal provisions for their protection and women are better equipped in expressing their problems. Men do not have this luxury.
3. Higher emotional aggression of women makes men more vulnerable to both emotional torture and provoked physical aggression leading to further torture because the entire blame shifts on the man for being physically aggressive.

Hence, Men Need Extra Protection.

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