This is the basis of the why. Because even nice "safe" males are likely to be thinking about our bodies in a sexual way. Because 80% of females have been harmed by males.
OK, this is going to sound sharper than intended, but I want to cut to the chase: men think about you sexually? So what? Welcome to planet earth. Men have that caveman thing you talked about going on. So what if they think about you sexually? Men think about avacados sexually.
And because if a male decides they want to harm us, there is nothing we can do about it.
Read that again, and try to understand the vulnerability here. I'm not saying "we're not allowed to do anything about it". We cannot do anything about it - we physically cannot force our will on males, but males can (and often enough do) force their will on females.
Again, blunter than intended: bull ◊◊◊◊. If you can exert 20 lbs of pressure (and unless crippled, you can), you can put a much larger male in the hospital. It's a question of will, and I don't accept this 'oh we're just widdle womenfolk' absolute bull ◊◊◊◊.
My daughters are all much smaller than me, and god help the sorry son of a bitch that attacks any one of them. They'll put the bitch in ICU before they are victimized. Because they will not utter the words you have been typing. They will not be docile victims and give up before the fight.
So to summarize... Females generally want to retain sex-segregated spaces because:
- Males ogle us and think sexual thoughts about us and that makes us uncomfortable because
So what? I mean in the big picture, so what? Does it make you uncomfortable? Do you want me to list off the things that make me uncomfortable? It's a rather long list.
- 80% of females have been subjected to sexual assault or harassment, which often begins when we're very young and have just started puberty and
- 20% of us have been the victims of attempted or completed rape and
I'm in the 20%! And in a lot of these surveys, I've seen what they call 'sexual harrassment'. By the milquetoast definitions, I have been sexually harressed since childhood. So I'm in the 80% too.
- Being naked or vulnerable in an enclosed semi-private space with unknown males increases our threat level
No it doesn't. It might increase unwarranted paranoia, but that's a very different thing. We talked about that earlier, on guard versus threatened. There is a difference, and you are glossing over it.
Do you think those reasons why are unreasonable?
Although I am being very intentionally blunt (sorry but it moves things along faster): no, those aren't reasonable unless you don't set foot on a dark street alone, ever. Never stop for a cop pulling you over, never work alone in an office with a man, that kind of thing. If you can do those things, or even walk with your spouse on a street (unless you think he is bulletproof of stun gun resistant), you're not as in as much global fear of men as you claim. You can't just declare global fear of men and demand imaginary 'safe spaces' from them, that are no safer than an unlocked door with a sign.
Fear of men in general is a mental illness, as you are framing it. You should be no more afraid of that 1 in 200 transwoman than I am of the males I run across in a men's room, who are often together and outnumber me.
Again, I'm being blunt to cut to the chase, not to be insensitive.