Quote: AJGO @ February 7 2012, 2:35 PM GMT
There are some self absorbed attention seeking women, just like their male counterparts.
But it's not a case of thinking that all men or even most men are stalkers or have malevolent intentions- it's not knowing which one out of the millions of decent men is actually a risk.
It only takes one man to ruin someone's sense of security, their ownership of their own body, their trust in humans. I don't feel like turning down a free drink from someone I don't know is too high a price to pay for hopefully minimising that possibility, and I certainly don't think that women attempting to be comfortable and sensible equates to being egotistical or paranoid or man-hating.
Being afraid of rape is not a political statement nor a personal foible.
I completey agree with you AJ and you should do whatever it takes to make yourself feel safe, but this is not what I was driving at.
My point was more to do with the mass hysteria whipped up by the press. This week it's stalking, next week it's identity theft, the week after that it's suicide pacts on the Internet. Impressionable people can convince themselves that they are the victims of everything shown on the news, like societal hypochondriacs.
dellas freaked out about cyber stalking and asked if it was a real threat. It's only a real threat if you are genuinely being stalked.
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ February 7 2012, 2:38 PM GMT
I'm certainly in the "backs against the wall" club whenever RC walks into the room.
That's because I like to see the look in your eyes.
