Huh...

[ermenrich]

An interior light inside the car was left on, so it was dead when I went out to go to work.  A woman in her 20s pulls up near by.  It is night, but we are in a well lit parking lot surrounded by apartments.  I am clean shaven, wearing nice clothing next to my car.  I approach her as she is getting stuff out of the back seat

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[elasait]

They say that anywhere from 20% to 33% of women have been victims of sexual assault. Now, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics, and I've been a little suspicious of this kind of statistic ever since I read something that revealed that the particular statistic I was reading interpreted "abuse" as including things like yelling at someone or slamming the door *during an argument*. Um, hello, who hasn't done that at some point in a relationship? But you don't know this woman's background. It's possible she was raped by a nice-looking, cleancut stranger who asked for help in a parking lot. You can't be sure.

And, hon, if you're female, it's *always* a threat in your own parking lot. I grant you that fact presumes the worst of the 95% of men who are decent and would never dream of doing anything like attacking a strange woman in a parking lot...but I'm not about to take the risk that this guy is in the 5%, and I wouldn't encourage any other woman to take that risk either.

That's our world. It just is. If you're a girl, you grow up knowing this...and if you don't grow up knowing it, you're more at risk.