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- From: query@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Samuel Green)
- Subject: Re: Walking her to the car.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.100032.9183@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
- References: <1992Aug11.175613.475@brtph560.bnr.ca> <1992Aug12.072624.26832@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Aug12.121820.12697@brtph560.bnr.ca>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:00:32 GMT
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- Oops, forgot to put this in my earlier message.
- I will ask ANYONE who is going out at night (if I am around, of
- course) if they wwant an escort. Men and women. Usually, the men will
- decline. Occasionally, the women will too. I was told by a 'liberated' (I
- have no idea what, exacvtly, they are liberated from) woman that she
- thought that it was macho bullshit for me to offer to escort her. She made
- it home safely that night, but, since she was so 'liberated', she went out
- many other times. Eventually, someone saw her as a victim, and she was
- mugged and raped. I don't think being 'liberated' is a very good reason
- for wanting to go out alone.
- Since that has happened, I now usually INSIST on escorting a woman
- to where she needs to go. If she refuses, I will usually follow her from a
- distance of about a block, and then run up to her if it seems like
- something may happen. Maybe thats wrong, if theyt said I should not go,
- but, hell, I would rather be stubborn and called a jerk or worse, than let
- someone get attacked.
- As far as following the guys who walk alone, I usually will do that
- too, just in case. Anyone can get jumped. I have been attacked a few
- times, and in one case, I was lucky enough to have been spotted by a friend
- and helped out.
- Call me stupid, but, I am willing to take a risk that I have been
- informed about and trained to deal with (as much as you can be prepared for
- an attack, I guess) if it means that someone who may or may not have been
- trained as well might be in danger. I don't think this makes me a hero, or
- anything like that, I just think that it gives someone else a better chance
- of avoiding an attack.
- Sam
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