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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-05-31 04:03 pm

[ SECRET POST #2706 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2706 ⌋

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Re: Suprisingly decent article on self defence

[personal profile] littlestbirds 2014-06-01 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
I've been thinking about this as well so it's cool to see what other people think. As if I'm somehow taking away from the legitimacy of the problem by not personally experiencing it?? I'm definitely not terrified all the time. I respect all the reasons other women have to see sexual violence as a constant possibility, but I also don't think I'm wrong about my life. I definitely do not assess every man as a potential threat and calculate my behaviour accordingly. I am a fairly assertive and unapproachable woman so maybe I don't get the expectations other women do? I'm also a socially inept introvert so I'm very rarely at ease with other people anyway.

I take basic precautions, but it doesn't feel like "terror of rape". A teen girl was abducted and raped in a wooded lot near my elementary school when I was a kid. I don't walk on trails through the woods alone. That kind of thing. But I live in a safe city. I'm realistic about the threats I face that my boyfriend doesn't, but it's not a definitive experience of my gender!!!!