But if one door unlocks when you are nowhere near it, can’t someone just open that door and steal something?
I'm not the OP, and I'm not (for better or worse) a member of the demographic that has to think like OP does, but it's very much a real thing & not just paranoia. I've had co-workers that kept their car keys between their fingers like Wolverine because of past experiences they had.
With all due respect, this is absolutely a fear women live with all the time. Just because you don't (I do not live with this fear, but I'm 6'7" and 225 pounds), doesn't mean it's not real. Frankly, being so dismissive of it paints you as exactly the type of person who adds to those fears.
Then maybe be clearer with what you say. If you don't want us to assume something, make sure we are aware of the context you are speaking, and give us the information you are using when you devise your statement. If you knew that your statement was going to be mis-interpreted as you were writing it, why not revise things so that it wouldn't be? I don't understand why you would want to be misinterpreted!
But what you DID say is that women feeling unsafe when alone is a left-over paranoia from the 80s. I am telling you that's objectively untrue. Women are made to feel unsafe by men all the time. Often those same men are the ones telling the women that they should just "feel safe" and "give me a chance" while pursuing a woman who's trying to get away from them.
Yes, it is. I was there in the 80s and again, this is not new.
It's a useful learning experience.
Way to be dismissive of people's actual experiences. Seriously, it makes you look not great, at best.
It really isn't. If you are wanting to honestly engage someone (or a group, such as in a forum like this) in conversation or discussion on a topic, withholding information so that people have to assume things is actually the opposite of a learning experience! Wanting to be misinterpreted as the outcome of your actions and speech fosters mistrust and suspicion in others.
I didn't, but carry on. Someone lamented "What is the world coming to" and I pointed out it's not new. Nobody has posted their experiences. This is hilarious. And a learning experience. You're making up a lot.
I'll admit that I mistook your "it's just paranoia" statement to be in regards to how women (and others) can feel unsafe due to vehicle-proximate attacks and assaults and not instead how the world seems or actually be worse off or not. But the you stated that your made your phrasing ambiguous on purpose, and it proceeded to rub me the wrong way, considering the serious nature of the things being discussed.
