"All women live by a rape schedule."

We should be focused on making society worry free for everyone. But the truth is that certain subsets of people are more likely to be targets of certain crimes, and for different reasons. Because the root causes for these issues are different, the actions we can take to make the most effective change will also be different.

For example, educating young people on sexual consent might help prevent future rapes, but those classes aren't going to have much of an impact on the fear a black man might experience when a pickup truck with a confederate flag on it rolls up behind him.

Similarly, is it wrong to have initiatives to prevent racism towards minorities in the south because those initiatives aren't necessarily going to help white women who are afraid of being out alone at night?

You're going to be hard-pressed to come up with many viable actions that are equal solutions to every group under the sun.

I don't see the point in insisting that we shouldn't talk about the different causes of these problems or acknowledge the variability in how different groups experience them. Discussing those things is what allows us to actually take intelligent action.

If anything, leaving it at the simple fact of "everyone is afraid of something" is what's going to amount to no action at all.

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