Furthermore, if someone puts up a movie poster because they've finally found a "safe space" then who is the author of the article to take that away from them?

Exactly the opposite of what I am saying. I wasn't considering the gender of the victim in that comment - rather the relative effectiveness of the victimization tools typically used by genders at that age. I was calling myself out as a non-typical case which received both (as a boy) only to point out exactly how one can just walk away from a punch in the face.