Freecycle rant
The Bolingbrook Freecycle group sends out, every month, a safety guide email to all participants. For the most part it's just "don't be stupid" but they always include this language:
"If you, for example, are a single woman living alone, you may want to meet downtown during the day to exchange the item, or have somebody with you at home, so it doesn't appear that you live alone."
Which pisses me off. So today I wrote a sternly-worded letter asking them to take that language out.
I ask you to please consider writing your own letter to the Bolingbrook mods. Just because we are women does not mean that we are more vulnerable to attack and it ABSOLUTELY doesn't mean we can be singled out as a group for fear-mongering. They may as well say that all the gays are vulnerable to lynchings. Or the Jewish population should be careful not to draw the attention of sociopaths. We all take the same risk by giving our addresses to strangers. When women are naturally assumed to be weak, society will continue treating us as inferior.
The Bolingbrook mods email is: bolingbrookfreecycle@yahoogroups.com
Thanks for reading my rant!!
"If you, for example, are a single woman living alone, you may want to meet downtown during the day to exchange the item, or have somebody with you at home, so it doesn't appear that you live alone."
Which pisses me off. So today I wrote a sternly-worded letter asking them to take that language out.
I ask you to please consider writing your own letter to the Bolingbrook mods. Just because we are women does not mean that we are more vulnerable to attack and it ABSOLUTELY doesn't mean we can be singled out as a group for fear-mongering. They may as well say that all the gays are vulnerable to lynchings. Or the Jewish population should be careful not to draw the attention of sociopaths. We all take the same risk by giving our addresses to strangers. When women are naturally assumed to be weak, society will continue treating us as inferior.
The Bolingbrook mods email is: bolingbrookfreecycle@yahoogroups.com
Thanks for reading my rant!!