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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yikes.  It's dark at 6:45pm. Trails are unsafe.[/quote]

+1.[/quote]

Did the trail attack her? MEN are unsafe.[/quote]

Yeah? Which men? All men? Some men? Most men? A few men?

Which men? Be specific. Generalization is for the soft-minded. Are you soft-minded? [/quote]

What does that changed when you are followed by a man on a trail? Are we supposed to guess if he's one of good ones or bad ones? This violence is perpetrated exclusively by MEN. The "not all men" shit is irrelevant, it is very much a male issue. Women don't go around attacking and raping male joggers. [/quote]
You sound like you may have some irrational hatred of “ALL” men. Do you have a therapist?[/quote]

I don't hate men. I live with one and am the mother to one. But I've been insulted, attacked, groped, followed, objectified and discriminated against by men many times in my life starting in childhood, like a lot of women out there (most women probably). I have feared for my safety countless times and learned from young age that men are a potential danger to us. That is not what I want for generations to come. It's time we stop treating gender-based violence as some type of fatality. The fact that you think what I am saying is irrational just shows that you have no clue.[/quote]

What makes “your two males” special? Don’t you worry about them attacking you or someone else?

No, you say?

Why not?

Well guess what? Most other males aren’t attacking women for the same exact reasons yours aren’t.

You don’t have two unicorns. [/quote]

Look, I never said "all men". But ALL women have been made unsafe by men. And these attacks are ALWAYS perpetrated by men. Do you see a pattern? Do you want to pretend it's just human beings attacking other human beings? it's not. This violence is gender-based in nature and only goes one way. If you can't see that then I can't help you. So what's the solution. Lay the burden on women again? Enough of that.[/quote]

I agree that the burden should not be on women.

What’s YOUR solution??

My teen son is getting lessons on consent in his middle school health class.  That’s probably a good start.  And since he was a kid, we have talked about respecting space and not touching another person (boy or girl) without permission.

However, the young man in this case probably wasn’t raised here in the US.  He probably comes from a country with a different culture and differing attitudes towards women.  Maybe an absent dad?  What do you propose we do?

Start training boys in other countries to respect women when they come to the US?  Seems like overreach.  But I’d like to hear what you think should happen in this case.  Or what we should have done differently to prevent this from happening.  In THIS particular case.  [/quote]

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