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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But their justified fear of violence isn’t cemented by commentary on their bodies, clothing, appearance and expression every time they leave the house. Someone yelling “nice tits” may not mean physical harm. But they remind you of its possibility.
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I think we could expand upon your tweet here. When out and about, I am usually unconcerned with short/fat/scrawny men or men in nice clothes. It's the tall/muscular/dour/tattooed/poor ones I assess first & foremost. Also the ones wearing hoods and/or hats to obscure their faces.
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At the bar or waiting for a bus or wherever, I size up the latter group as fast as I can and I'm always on the lookout for more who may yet show up, depending on circumstances... Things can turn physical in a split second and then it's on. Sometimes without an exchange of words.
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Merely seeing these men in or near a liquor store, bar, bus stop, what have you, doesn't mean a physical altercation will occur but seeing them reminds one of the possiblity. Sometimes I stop reading Twitter when I see suspicious men to instead have my phone ready to call police
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Thinking aloud here. The safe, nonthreatening men are in suits or have children in tow. Or they're disabled/frail/scrawny/timid. Perhaps men don't talk about fear of other men as much as they comment on the confidence they experience around unimposing, unintimidating men.
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