“Weak men create tough times,” the old adage says.

We are in the tough times and society is learning how dangerous it is to reject the masculine impulse towards protection. As a result, women, who are not themselves responsible for this mass feminization of society, are forced to bear the consequences.

In the last week, video footage was released showing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska being murdered in cold blood on public transit by Decarlos Brown Jr. The latter had multiple prior arrests, including a charge of armed robbery for which he served five years in prison.

Brown was arrested and released on cashless bail 14 different times because compassionate judges kept letting him off. For too many in the criminal justice system, the idea of putting an insane man behind bars concerns them more than the threat such individuals pose to innocent life.

Zarutska’s murder is rightly sparking viral outrage. Yet her death is only one example of the countless ways in which women are victimized by lawless serial offenders who are consistently let off by a justice system that should know better.

In the video of Zarutska’s murder, a man sat on the bench near her while the stabbing occurred. The man didn’t even ask Zarutska if she was alright or fetch medical attention, much less do anything to stave off her attacker.

Journalist Brianna Lyman describes it on X:

The full version of the video is so disturbing I refuse to share it.

After collapsing, she reaches her hand up for help several times as she lay bleeding out. She’s ignored.

Finally a man pushes past SEVERAL bystanders who are just WATCHING and tries to stop her bleeding.

She appears to be choking on her own blood and her eyes appear to be rolling.

Another female and male come over to assist.

There’s a segment of men on the right who see stories of women being victimized while men refuse to help as a sort of strange vindication. Women, they argue, have long decried toxic masculinity, and here they finally have what they wanted – men too frightened of a Karen crackdown to step in and be the saviors and protectors they could have been.

There’s some truth to this – the legal ordeal Daniel Penny underwent after saving passengers on New York City public transport from an insane man stands as one example. Yet in Zarutska’s case, it is hard to see their point. No one would have looked down on a man who stepped in to help this dying girl (one, in fact, finally did).

Rather, a “Karen crackdown” would have happened if someone had stepped in before the murderous act was committed, whether physically on the train, as in the case of Daniel Penny, or more broadly speaking by standing for tough-on-crime policies and stricter incarceration laws. Anyone who does the actual work to stop such violence before it occurs is bound to be called every “ism” in the book.

What many forget, however, is that the whole altercation is a spotlight on what a society of feminist men looks like. When men are constantly told their masculinity is “toxic,” then truly toxic murderers such as Brown are allowed to terrorize women unabated.

This is no time for men to throw up their hands and act helpless. Saving lives like Zarutska’s is worth all the name-calling and character-assassination that could be thrown at someone. Americans need to summon the stomach required for the fight against lawlessness which restoring public safety would demand. This is the only way that we avoid future murders such as this one.

Unfortunately, the left’s response to the presence of the national guard on the streets of Washington, D.C., doesn’t bode well for that. For many, the mere presence of camouflaged soldiers in their city inspires more fear than the actual threat of a cold-blooded murder by the hands of a career criminal. It’s time we stopped rejecting the knights in shining armor who could potentially put a stop to this war on the safety of women, and indeed all of society.

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The republication of this article is made possible by The Fred & Rheta Skelton Center for Cultural Renewal. 

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