A lot of women get groped and assaulted in very public locations, like public transit and at work. Are those risky situations you teach your daughters to avoid? How about walking to their cars after work?
Whait, wat!?
So the message was actually directed toward the boys?
Golly-gee, that sure sheds a new light on things.
After getting dropped off by the school bus, my 15 year old son has to walk 1 mile along a rural road to get home. It doesn’t bother me much. OTOH, there is no way in hell I would let my daughter do the same.
Is this in the wrong thread? What has this to do with the topic of the OP/quote?
Or even the current conversation?
You protect your daughter more than your son, yes, yes, very admirable!
( Is this the props you’re hoping for? )
That’s this poster’s usual way of abandoning a thread when they know they’re not getting the reaction they want. They have a fabulous rejoinder w/ tons of great reasoning behind it, and they’d share it if they had time but gosh darnit, they have to go to work. The Starving Artist show goes out w/ a whimper rather than a bang.
Felt good reading it too, and I feel that this well deserved sentiment didn’t get near enough praise, so I’m gonna QFT this so hard I might just go blind.
So, you’ve succeeded in making some women feel scared and like they need male assistance in a safe situation where they were perfectly comfortable before.
Congratulations, I guess?
See above re: Addressing potential threats to women’s safety by promoting restrictive supervision of the women’s own behavior.
As noted by elbows, we’re all glad to hear that you’re concerned about your daughter’s safety. But I think we as a society should be trying to come up with better ways to protect women’s safety than circumscribing their actions to the extent that a teenage girl is not allowed to walk one mile along a rural road near her home in daylight which is considered quite acceptably safe for a teenage boy.
What is happening on your neighborhood’s roads that poses such a drastic threat to your daughter (but not your son), and wouldn’t it be better to deal with that problem at its source instead of just refusing to let your daughter go outdoors unaccompanied?
Woman repeatedly groped by airline passenger for 20 MINUTES as they sat side-by-side on jet
What do you expect? Going into a dangerous situation like that, she should have known better. If only she had had a geriatric protector to defend her virtue. She will know better than to scoff at the old men offering to accompany her next time.
Once more I fail to see the relevance of victim blaming to the topic.
Sorry, not buying that story at face value. Everything I can find either goes back to The Daily Mirror or associated papers or The Daily Mail.
It’s not the same incident.
If ever a username and their comments were more perfectly aligned…
Kimstu, you rock! I can’t even pick one post to quote before saying that because throughout this thread you have been outstanding.
May I suggest “Goodbye Straight Dope.”
See ya!
I really like how when you are confronted with truth and reality ALL OF A SUDDEN you have to go claiming you will be back.
And then when you come back you CONVENIENTLY forget to actually address the truth and reality.
You fucking retarded butt monkey.
Perhaps intellectual dishonesty and the use of deliberately deceptive verbiage qualifies as enabling one to “rock” around here, given the audience said rocker plays to – where even an intellectually-challenged numbskull like Guinastasia, truly one of the board’s dimmest lights, can post a screed full of lies and nonsense and draw spirited applause.
Still, nothing has changed and reality remains what it is. The young ladies I mentioned upon my entrance to the thread still welcome and appreciate my accompaniment as they walk to their cars late at night. They still thank me for having begun to do it. They still express bewilderment as to why more men don’t think of them and/or behave as I do. And they’re still oblivious to the fact that they’re supposed to deliberately place themselves in what might be harm’s way so as not to require the protection of some man.
And I still find this encouraging.