As a partially disabled man, unable to run and too weak to fight, I'm on guard a lot. It's fucking exhausting. Yet it's still a tiny fraction of what women experience. The entirety of unwanted attention and actions against women is too much to really comprehend for men.
What change can we make as men that will be a rising tide, lifting both men and women?
In my experience, people who carry firearms are much more afraid than normal, because they have a physical object that reminds them to be afraid every time they step out the front door. And in every situation, from the barber to the grocery, they've got this heavy metal thing weighing them down while they wonder if this is the time to use it.
If you don't mind sharing, where do you live? I'm able bodied but in my 31 years I've literally had to run or fight only once, and it was in a neighborhood I knew was bad. Meaning if I wasn't able bodied I would not have gone there.
Just makes me think you live in the slums of Chicago or some harsh place. I've been all over western Canada and there's maybe two neighborhoods I'd think you'd want to avoid. So it's hard for me to imagine a person living in constant fear unless they are in or near those neighborhoods.