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- From: bickis@skmath3.usask.ca ("M. Bickis")
- Subject: Re: Women's and men's safety
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- Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:39:13 GMT
- References: <1gidosINNprq@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1gidosINNprq@agate.berkeley.edu> vanhoek@bend.UCSD.EDU
- (Karen van Hoek) writes:
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- >I live in Ann Arbor, a very nice town; my male friends all feel safe
- >walking in many parts of it at almost all hours. I don't. ~~~~
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- Is the issue really about *feeling* safe as opposed to *being* safe?
- Statistically speaking, are women really more at risk from assault by
- strangers than are men? (This is not a rhetorical question, but I
- don't know what the answer is.) Or maybe men also don't feel that
- safe, but are unwilling to admit their fear?
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- I hope I am not trivializing this real factor in women's lives. I
- just wonder if this fear is more like fear of flying, based on a
- psychological *perception* of risk, or like fear of cigarettes, based
- on *actual* risk? Can the streets be made safer for women, or can
- women decide (as men do) that the benefits outweigh the risks?
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