One of the quietest horrors I've ever felt was this one weekend in Istanbul when I was walking home alone at 2am, down a very busy main street (Istiklal), and slowly realized that every single other person on the street was a man.
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turns out I was right to be worried, I got followed home and very nearly assaulted that night, saved only by my primal screams which turns out are super effective
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yeah i almost got raped or mugged or something in a remote back alley but he ran away when I screamed
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Observation: Substitute "man" for "black" and I doubt you'd be posting this. How is racism so different from sexism?
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The reason it was scary was because women weren't on the street for a reason. I was the only person of that group who didn't know the reason. I probably would be worried also if the same thing had happened with race.
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