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Originally Posted by leesa
It's actually not ridiculous at all. It can be hard to understand when it's not something that affects your daily life but majority of women are on guard and scoping their surroundings the moment they leave their front door.
Most avoid walking in dark spots in preference of lit up areas, will take a long way around to avoid walking through a park, keep a mental note on who's walking near them and if they're being followed, wrap their keys through their fingers when walking home from the train at night, lock their car doors as soon as they get in, etc etc I could go on.
Men typically get to walk down the street at night with no fear but women don't really have that luxury. Women often can't avoid walking down the street at night to get home from work and then if they're raped/murdered we all hear the blaming again, "being outside of a house at night is not safe and women need to keep themselves safer" as if most women don't already take excessive measures to try and avoid violent men.
You could probably fall asleep out on a park bench and wake up in the morning without having been raped, but if a woman did that she'd be told it was her fault for not keeping herself out of harm's way.
Please have a little more empathy for the women in your life who are trying to keep themselves safe.
I believe there's been a nation-wide push to increase CCTV coverage after Eunji Ban, Jill Meagher, Eurydice Dixon and countless other murders.
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a few weeks ago i took my dog for a walk at about 5am, i was walking through the local dog park and it was very dark, now im a 195cm 130kg bloke and i could see this woman walking towards me but slowing down, i had the feeling that she was scared as often at night i see women cross the road (my wife does the same at night when she is walking) so they dont have to walk past me. in this instance i was lucky that my dog ran to her to say hello and she recognised betty then was fine with me walking closer. as a bloke who isnt going to do anything untoward it sucks to be labeled and scared of but i can see where they are coming from, they should like i do be able to walk freely at anytime of day with out worrying about the scum in the world. hopefully these sorts of cameras help