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I personally don't 'get' what women mean when they talk about experiencing sexism and harassment and lack of safety - I don't relate to it or experience it very much, and I know some other women who agree. It's weird the disparity here, that some women report so much trouble...

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With men and others don't. My theory is that it's 'prey vibe'. Due to whatever reasons probably outside my control, I don't exude 'being prey'. I've been paying more attention lately to women who experience harassment, and I think they do exude prey vibe - the body language is

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Slightly more negatively responsive, there's more avoidance in stuff like eye contact and positioning of body, there's sort of a self-protective air, like they're aware there is something to protect. I'm not saying harassment is their fault at all, but it's my theory as to why

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Harassment seems to happen more to them and less to me and some other women I know. I was brought up in a culturally isolated environment and in my formative years rarely experienced sexually predatory men, and I think that gave me some subconscious fearlessness

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That now functions as a signal to men that they'll get less a reaction from me. For example, I generally like being catcalled, and get catcalled less than most women I know.

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Lol you're not just forming a "theory" based on anecdotal evidence (which is bad enough), you're forming a theory based on the *absence* of anecdotal evidence. Huge logical fail 😂

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The impression I get from your tweets is that you're interested in having a "gotcha" moment over me, like we're in a war and you want to win. I'm more interested in assigning good faith to each other and trying to collaborate in finding out the truth.

3:03 PM · Aug 4, 2019

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If you take my criticism of poor logic as some kind of attack, it says more about you than it does me. And collaborating to find truth doesn't begin with fallacy-based theories 🙄 If you're *really* interested in truth you'd accept my criticism and abandon this entire "theory"

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