Nope. Because you know what? The dudes who sexually assaulted and abused me were, as most of them are, my goddamned partners. Men I had invited into my home and my bed. Random assault by a stranger on the open street is vanishingly rare.https://twitter.com/KateBurkeNHS/status/1369635128931127296 …
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Which is not to say it does not happen, but that if, while living as a woman, you are going to organize your life around living in fear then you will get the most return on that never, ever getting romantically involved with cis dudes.
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I often wonder why we push this narrative that women should be afraid to go out in public. And I say we because pretty much everyone buys into it and pushes it until if you're a woman and you're not, you kind of feel like a failure at femininity.
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Who benefits from making women fear to stride through public places like they own them? Why do we assert that it's so dangerous when, objectively speaking, it is much less dangerous than getting romantically involved with men?
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Are we just not ready to cope with the fact that harm to women takes place behind closed doors? And that if they want to avoid it, their best option is to pull a Lysistrata maneuver?
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You’re totally right about how society doesn’t emphasise that violence against women is overwhelmingly done by those closest to them, but as society makes us fear being outside along with the current news, I think it’s less about how we should be afraid 1/2
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of going outside but rather incidences like this reinforce that fear. 2/2
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