Why Aren't There More Daniel Pennys?

Assessing the most irreconcilable gender war

In February 2020, I was having a cigarette outside a Chinese food place when two cops walked out. They seemed approachable, and I like talking to cops. I asked one of them, “Have things been getting a little weird around here lately?” He responded, “Do you want the politically correct answer or the real answer?” I said, “The real answer, of course.” He replied, “This city is going to burn to the ground, and then the embers are going to burn. After that, maybe it will get better. I arrested someone last week for raping a girl. Booked him and released him. He raped another girl a week later. I arrested him again. He’s still out on the street.”

The political circumstances behind the fate of Daniel Penny are simple. Bill de Blasio eliminated cash bail for misdemeanors and non-felonies in January 2020. After the death of George Floyd, he cut the budget for the NYPD by $1B in July 2020. You don’t need to spend much time in NYC to notice the extremely predictable effects of such extreme changes.

Jordan Neely, the bum who Daniel Penny put into a chokehold and killed, isn’t unique. There’s tens of thousands of Jordan Neely’s roaming the streets of NYC right now. If you live in NYC or have spent time there, you know that most of the NYC subway is a sanctuary for violent schizophrenics. Daniel Penny’s heroic act resonated with New Yorkers more than most people because every man who rides the subway has thought through how he would handle himself if attacked while simply trying to get from point A to point B.

Of course, Daniel Penny is being charged with manslaughter because he defied the norm. You’re supposed to just sit there and stare at your phone nervously while being intimidated by violent crackheads. “Just part of living in the greatest city in the world bro!” Okay, Midwest transplant.

The message from NYC to taxpayers is clear: “We’re going to take an exorbiant amount of your income and make your environment worse in the name of liberalism. Deal with it or leave.”

Gender Wars

Daniel Penny killed Jordan Neely in May 2023. Since then, there’s brief gender wars every few months. Women are mad that more men aren’t like Daniel Penny. They want more men to risk their lives to defend them from violent people in public. Men say that women aren’t hot or pleasant enough to defend these days. Some of them even claim you don’t “owe” women your protection at all. None of these positions are worth taking seriously.

Women want a warrior to slay the dragon to rescue her. This romantic desire is embedded in their bones. You can’t change it. In situations like this, we’re tapping into the realm of subconscious and archetypial desires. There isn’t much room for rational debate. No one is going to see eye-to-eye.

The solution for women living in NYC is simple:

Every time a woman goes on the subway alone, she’s making a choice to gamble with her life. What if there aren’t men on her subway car to defend her while being harassed, assaulted, or raped? Who is there to blame? Would she blame NYC for provoking this? Would she start asking more taboo questions about the nature of her attacker?