A Womans Worst Nightmare
Rated • 28 reviews • crime, women, digits digitized work, feminism • pbs.org
This is 2nd nature to women and it didn't occur to me until this article just how ingrained my taking precautions is. Yes, I also agree that men will never understand the extent women in general live in this world with hypersensitivity to danger. It's like putting on jeans. Such a normal occurrence we wouldn't really bother explaining it or complaining about it unless something traumatic happens [rape, beaten, threatened] and our 'normal' sensitivity is exacerbated.
A woman's worst nightmare? That's pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, "They are afraid women will laugh at them." When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, "We're afraid of being killed."
