(11-26-2024, 11:18 AM)Bchbunnie4 Wrote:

(11-26-2024, 07:32 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: None of you can tell me why this wouldn't solve the problem.  You'd rather have a culture war over something that is so easily resolved.

Most bathrooms aren’t lines out the door busy. The number of times I’ve been the only person in there has been too many to count. So now you have a secluded area equally accessible to men and woman with private, little locked rooms with no easy way of escape. Does that sound comforting to you for your wife or daughter? You men don’t have to think about stuff like this, but to women we have to do security assessment multiple times a day just going about our lives. Bet you’ve never thought twice about parking next to a van or panel truck…ask your wife if she has. Women have enough potential minefields we have to deal with on the daily, why is society okay with increasing our lack of safety for a few mentally misguided individuals?

I concur with every damn thing you say here. Especially the panel van thing. *shudder*

I'm 5'10" so men probably look at me as less of an opportunity. Add to it that I have my head on a swivel at all times, walk with a purpose and have my RBF (resting [BLEEP] face) set to Max when I'm in areas I feel vulnerable... there's been few people who have ever approached me. I don't give anyone any reason to want to have anything to do with me because I don't want to make it easy for the wrong one to do something stupid.

We can open carry here in NC but we're not there yet where I live. Plus, a .45 on the hip is a bit much. Lol. I need to get a CCP and a 9mm, or just carry my husband's 9mm we keep in the living room but I have procrastinated. 

Bottom line, men do not understand what it is to feel preyed upon just for being a woman. Even when I was at my fittest, and I'm talking pretty damn fit, there was no chance of me overpowering some dude who woke up ready to do violence on someone.

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