#don't use both earbuds while walking empty streets/at night. don't trust strangers.

[lovingherwasgay]

the girl in the video is an idiot BUT so are the girls in the replies that are like "what? you expect me to be afraid just because I'm a woman? it's not healthy to live afraid of something happening to you!"

yes. you are more likely to be seen as an easy target for mugging, rape, kidnapping or murder if you're a woman. especially if you're young, small and pretty. it's a horrible reality we live in, but the solution is NOT just to have optimism and go out anyway with no precautions because 'it's an unhealthy mindset to have'. it's unhealthier to be dead.

if men are afraid of being alone at night in dangerous places, it's because they fear getting mugged. at worst, they fear being hurt/killed during the mugging because the robber was armed. girls HOPE if something bad happens it's just a mugging, and they don't rape or kidnap you just to dump your body in a ditch.

if you think you're being an empowered feminist with this whole "If I had been born with a dick no one would care that I do those things but since I’m a #girl I’m supposed to be inherently afraid of the world" think again. because yes, you will as a woman face problems that men don't. (or as an afab. genuinely sorry trans men if it makes you disphoric but if predators see you as a woman they will treat you as such).

you're not helping women by essentially erasing the very real statistical imbalance in how many girls are harassed, groped, stalked, raped, kidnapped, sold, prostituted, murdered, in comparison to men. by talking about it like it's female paranoia and not a real issue, like you only need to grow a pair and be brave because it's in your head and "the world can't stop you from living your life freely!".