This will be women who don't live each day with an awareness of our own physical vulnerability. I truly believe this is a thing being impressed on women now tho and those who say they do think like that (but don't live in something like a warzone) are completely honest about it.https://twitter.com/laurakenworthy/status/1050455072541429760 …
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...we have turned our attention to much less likely risks and protections from them. So kids are not allowed to walk to the park & play on their own coz the possibility exists that they could encounter a paedophile or other danger or just fall off a swing.
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I thought this when looking at the song in which the woman listed all the things she couldn't do because she was a woman. Included opening the door in pyjamas. The chances of the person on the other side being a home-invading rapist is statistically very low indeed but possible
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Is it possible that this is a similar narrowing of attention to possible but unlikely dangers which are then built up to something some women live with as a constant fear and limit their lives in response to? It seems possible.
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If so, some kind of free range female adulting advocacy could be warranted in cases where women are limiting their lives in fear of a danger that is very unlikely. Obv not in cases where the fear of attack is realistic. And in either case, focus is still needed on reducing danger
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Simply based on the biological idea that eggs are expensive while sperm is cheap, we might expect that men and women will have, on average, somewhat different perceptions of risk.
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Times completely match with that surge in the 90s about not letting children suffer. So many parents worried their children don't ever suffer the frustration of not having everything they wanted may have brought a weak human generation.
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when immediate threats, and basic needs are met, on a national level (not saying there are not people in need), it's society creates new threats and needs to guard against.
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take for example this weird notion that people are oppressed in the United States, when in reality, the average American regardless of race,sex,preference, identity, is in the top 5% globally in every definition of the word privilege.
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Basic Mathematics, and world graphs on average median grades for higher education, annual income, access to basic needs, access to luxery items, freedoms, you name it, we are in the top 5%.
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