I hope this doesn't derail the conversation, but I've found that I am less afraid of rape than I used to be as a child, teenager and young woman.
Part of this is just a benefit of middle age, but also I've gained 40 pounds since then and I think that helps!
I also belatedly took a self-defense class.
And the DNA technology is reassuring. Now they can often tell who the perp is. If not today, then eventually, and you'll have the real badguy, and not some innocent schmoe who looks like him.
I get way, way less street harassment than I did back then, and I don't know why that is. Our world has changed, but so have I.
I'm still afraid of rape and very wary in some ways that might look like a phobia (enclosed places, not being able to see an exit to a room or building and easily get there). But it isn't like it was.
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Part of this is just a benefit of middle age, but also I've gained 40 pounds since then and I think that helps!
I also belatedly took a self-defense class.
And the DNA technology is reassuring. Now they can often tell who the perp is. If not today, then eventually, and you'll have the real badguy, and not some innocent schmoe who looks like him.
I get way, way less street harassment than I did back then, and I don't know why that is. Our world has changed, but so have I.
I'm still afraid of rape and very wary in some ways that might look like a phobia (enclosed places, not being able to see an exit to a room or building and easily get there). But it isn't like it was.