"Why do men feel threatened by women?"

Writing the Male Character, a Hagey Lecture at the University of Waterloo (9 February 1982); reprinted in Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1982), p. 413. Paraphrases of such expressions have provided them wider exposure; Gavin De Becker later stated in The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence (1997) "It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different — men and women live in different worlds. I don’t remember where I first heard this simple description of one dramatic contrast between the genders, but it is strikingly accurate: At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them."