then you mean that *you* were silly for walking home alone? Come on!
... sorry, this is one of my pet peeves; that for some reason a woman (or worse, a girl) is inviting violence or harassment by walking around on her own.
Yes, I did feel silly for walking home on my own. But I didn't think it was silly because I was a girl. All of us, girls and boys, knew we should be careful about walking alone on the streets late at night. In actual fact, I walked my male friends home more often than they walked me home, because we'd heard the figures about young men being the most likely victims of street crime.
One of my male friends from school refused point blank to walk alone on the streets after dark. If there was no one available to walk him home he called his parents, or made sure to leave while it was still light. He took more precautions than me or any of my female friends.
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Re: hmmmm
Date: August 4th, 2004 07:05 am (UTC)From:... sorry, this is one of my pet peeves; that for some reason a woman (or worse, a girl) is inviting violence or harassment by walking around on her own.
Yes, I did feel silly for walking home on my own. But I didn't think it was silly because I was a girl. All of us, girls and boys, knew we should be careful about walking alone on the streets late at night. In actual fact, I walked my male friends home more often than they walked me home, because we'd heard the figures about young men being the most likely victims of street crime.
One of my male friends from school refused point blank to walk alone on the streets after dark. If there was no one available to walk him home he called his parents, or made sure to leave while it was still light. He took more precautions than me or any of my female friends.