An interesting article in Outside Magazine: Six women talk about their experiences with harassment while recreating or working in the outdoor industry.
Go here.
What the heck did I just read?! Those accounts were horrible. I hate the vulnerability of being a woman.
I get it, @CrystalRose. I work hard to keep myself safe but I have a little protection from not being young and hot any more. #metoo is helping, too!
Another interesting piece by Caroline Gleich here on dealing with people doubting and trying to undermine her accomplishment.
I get it, @CrystalRose. I work hard to keep myself safe but I have a little protection from not being young and hot any more. #metoo is helping, too!
Another interesting piece by Caroline Gleich here on dealing with people doubting and trying to undermine her accomplishment.
So true. You can't live in a buffered cocoon or have a bodyguard escort all the time, so you must be conscious of your surroundings and take calculated risks without turning paranoid about it....try to not put myself in potentially compromising situations but I still do...
So true. You can't live in a buffered cocoon or have a bodyguard escort all the time, so you must be conscious of your surroundings and take calculated risks without turning paranoid about it.
I have a lot of things going for me that "protects" me too. The main one is my resting b@#$h face. I'm almost never approached in public by either gender. The second is being 6 feet tall. I'm taller than most men I encounter so I don't usually feel intimated by them (unless they are giving off creep vibes). But, I'm not foolish enough to believe that makes me safe. I have a male friend who is around 5'2" that can pick me up fairly easily. It's always a reminder for me that a man at any size has a man's strength and I would be no match in a true fight.
So like @Powgirl I try to not put myself in potentially compromising situations but I still do. I walk in a dark parking garage every day. I walk to my car at night alone. I hike and ski alone. I have pepper spray on my key chain with the hopes that I will remember that it's there if anything were to ever happen but knowing that I probably won't. It still makes me feel better.
Also @Powgirl, what happened after the mugger punched you?
I fell back and he got away with my purse!!