I didn’t mean for this post to cause a bunch of arguing in the comments =(
I thought this was just some gallows humor (e.g. “Everything’s lovely except that I have to fear for my safety all the time”) type of shitpost that sounded similar to comments I’ve heard from women irl a lot.
I know LA is worse, but I do feel safer in my neighborhood simply because it’s familiar, so I’d spot trouble, and an escape route, more easily.
In your familiar territory, you feel that assaults on women “just do not happen here” because you haven’t seen them personally.
Men don’t even realize how much personal safety they take for granted simply because they aren’t targets.
Even in a relatively safe city, it only takes one femicide if that woman is you.
And if a woman did go around with the attitude you’re espousing and got raped or killed, a disgusting number of people would think, “she should have been more careful, she was asking for trouble.”
I’m sure you’re not that kind of guy. You seem like a good person. But your experience is not the same as any woman.
Even in Toronto.