In this post, I go over a recent example of a violent crime where a Good Samaritan was punished for protecting the intended victims of the criminal. Then I want to take a look at the voting patterns of young women. Then I want to evaluate the demands made by conservative Christians and social conservatives that good men “protect women” under the current incentives and laws.

So, first, an example of how good men are treated when they do try to protect people from criminals.

Here is a re-cap of an old but famous case from 2023, reported in The Federalist:

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny was reportedly indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on Wednesday for defending New York City subway passengers from an erratic and threatening homeless man.

The incident in question occurred on May 21, when Jordan Neely — who had been arrested 44 times for “criminal conduct” and, at the time, “had an outstanding warrant for felony assault” — began threatening and getting violent with NYC subway passengers. During the episode, Neely allegedly kept repeating the phrases, “I’m going to kill you,” “I’m prepared to go to jail for life,” and “I’m willing to die.”

In response, Penny and two of his fellow passengers attempted to restrain Neely, which involved the former placing the latter in a headlock. Neely ultimately died during the encounter, with NYC’s medical examiner ruling the death a homicide.

According to sources who spoke with Fox News, Penny is being indicted “on one count each of criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter.” If convicted of the latter charge, Penny could face five to 15 years in prison.

Now, let’s see how young women voters feel about violent crime. Are they opposed to it? Are they opposed to opening the borders to criminals? Are they opposed to defunding the police?

The UK Mirror explains:

More than 100 women’s rights groups have warned “racist” attempts to link sexual violence with immigration are putting victims at increased risk.

Rape Crisis England and Wales, the End Violence Against Women Coalition and Refuge are among the organisations warning anti-migrant groups and politicans are “hijacking” survivors’ trauma. They have signed a letter to Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper warning that sexual abuse must not be used for political gain – and those who spread misinformation must be held to account.

There’s an epidemic of sexual abuse in the UK right now, and immigrants are committing these offenses at rates far in excess of native citizens—foreign nationals (10.9% of pop) grabbed 28–34% of female sexual assault convictions and 25% of adult female rapes in 2024 alone. (Fact-checked AGAIN here by Sky News) But are women concerned about it? Do they want to stop it? Or are they more concerned about being seen by others as tolerant and compassionate?

What about in America? New York City had a Muslim communist who wants to replace the much of the police force with social workers on the ballot. So, did young women vote against Islam and against defunding the police?

CNN has the exit polls:

84% of women from the ages of 18-29 supported the Muslim communist.

And they support all his policies:

• Oppose Mass Deportations and ICE Raids: Mamdani vows to block federal immigration enforcement in New York, labeling ICE operations as “state terror” and pledging to shield undocumented immigrants from deportation, undermining national border security and encouraging illegal entry.
• Declare New York a Sanctuary Jurisdiction: He demands the city and state prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE, refusing to honor detainers for criminal aliens and turning New York into a magnet for unchecked migration that strains housing, schools, and public resources.
• Push Amnesty and Citizenship for Undocumented: Mamdani calls for a blanket pathway to citizenship for all 11 million+ undocumented immigrants, rewarding lawbreaking while sidelining legal immigrants and imposing massive costs on taxpayers for welfare, healthcare, and education.
• End Border Wall and Detention Funding: He explicitly opposes funding for border walls, detention centers, or any expansion of ICE, framing enforcement as “cruel” and pushing to defund agencies tasked with securing the southern border against drugs, trafficking, and illegal crossings.
• Support Open Refugee Resettlement: Mamdani advocates flooding New York with unchecked refugee intakes from high-risk regions, rejecting vetting reforms and ignoring the strain on local services already overwhelmed by migrant surges.

So, the question is this: should good men be expected to protect young women, when they 1) overwhelmingly vote to increase the risks of violent crime, and 2) overwhelmingly vote against self-defense (charge Daniel Penny and put him on trial for a year), and voting against gun ownership by law-abiding citizens?

Final point: what do pro-marriage Christians and pro-marriage conservatives have to say about all of this? Well, pro-marriage Christians and pro-marriage conservatives look at this situation and they have two responses.

First, they do not dare say anything to these young women about their choices, or the long-term consequences of those choices. Whatever women are choosing, they have to be allowed to “follow their hearts”. Any bad consequences that follow should be pushed onto the good men who opposed their choices. The good men should be expected to “fix” the problems caused by these young women. And if the young women like, they can then arrest those good men, and put them on trial, maybe even send them to prison for a few years… or for many years. Remember, these are the same people who don’t lift a finger to ban single mother welfare, mixed schools, Title IX violation of due process, false accusations in family courts to obtain custody illegitimately, etc. so they have no interest in engineering the production of good men to protect women. They create the conditions that cause men to be timid, then they complain that the timid men they created are timid.

Second, they demand that good men protect and provide for women who are overwhelmingly leftist. Good men have no agency of their own! They only exist to provide utility to young women, including the 84% of young women who vote for Sharia Law and communism. Good men can have no plans of their own, and they are not allowed to have any standards for women that might exclude women who voted for Mamdani. NO! Good men are just walking cash dispensers who must also risk their lives to fight the criminals that their Mamdani-supporting wives let in through the doors and windows of the home. And they must do it without using violence, and certainly not with firearms! Only the criminals can have guns.

Is it any wonder that good men are opting out of the demands of pro-marriage Christians and pro-marriage conservatives? They are like the people that C. S. Lewis describes in his essay “Men Without Chests” from his book “The Abolition of Man“. They insist on the positive outcomes, while doing everything possible to engineer negative outcomes. They raise the price of good behavior, then insult good men who decline to pay the costs as being “weak”. That’s the Christian and conservative leadership we have. The irony is that it is the pious Christian leaders and the chivalrous social conservatives who are weak. They are the ones who are 1) refusing to confront young women about their choices and 2) refusing to listen to men who are telling them how to engineer conditions where it is rational for good men to act.