In the 1970s and '80s I often tried to explain to men that women wanted to be able to walk home from the bus stop without having to cross the street or duck into someone else's doorway if we heard footsteps behind us.
In the 1970s and '80s I often tried to explain to men that women wanted to be able to walk home from the bus stop without having to cross the street or duck into someone else's doorway if we heard footsteps behind us.
In the 1970s and '80s I often tried to explain to men that women wanted to be able to walk home from the bus stop without having to cross the street or duck into someone else's doorway if we heard footsteps behind us.
As Margaret Atwood said, “Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.”
I have never forgotten that. It was so true, and in many places it still is.