This happened on my run this morning...

What she suggested is ridiculous and you are doing nothing wrong, but it does reveal the mindset that many women live with, and gets inflamed after something like this happens, and there is little she can do about it. She was trying to do something. Today I have spent worrying about myself and my daughter being out in the world. I know there is literally nothing I can do if someone wants to do something like what was done to Masa to us.

By coincidence I listened to a podcast about Peter Dupas and know that decades before, a guy with a hard on for stabbing and raping got released time after time for similar acts to this Sean Price. You being noisy in the park doesn't fix that. Us staying out the park doesn't fix that, they will do it somewhere else if they are free to be out and there's no women in the goddamn park.

I don't even think this kind of an attack is a symptom of gender issues in our culture, and it sucks it keeps being brought back to that. It is rare and all the remaining men who wouldn't dream of it can't stop that one who does. It is an issue of inadequate mental health care (partly underfunded, mostly the science isn't there yet) and despite that lack of success in treating those people, we have a really stupid justice system. I am angry and scared and having all the feels. I mean I have seen more written in the media about Masa wearing headphones than about the fact that people like this guy, Adrian Bayley, Steven Hunter, Brett Cohan are given chance after chance. There should be one chance, we are all on our last chance.

So anyway, the comments in this thread have made me pretty sad. I know what this women said to you is ridiculous and insulting. But the lack of empathy is shitty. I mean I even feel reluctant to post this, because I think there will be a pile on and I can't deal with it. FTR, I don't blame the police for saying the dumb shit they've said in the wake of this either. I feel deeply for them having to deal with the victims and perpetrators up close, knowing there is little they can do to fix anything, knowing all the times they caught him before were merely a speed bump. I get they are imploring women to take measures, because they might do it, whereas nothing stops those monsters except a jail cell.

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