It's true that women are always warned about the 'dangers' of going out alone, being followed, dressing 'inappropriately', using quiet byways etc. Totally unacceptable, and should not be needed. Children too being warned about 'Stranger Danger'. It's a jungle out there, and it jolly well shouldn't be.
My feisty niece in Edinburgh has reached a high level of karate, and knows how to defend herself, but I dread to think she may need her skills one evening while out walking alone.
Even in our tranquil rural village, my neighbour's daughter of eighteen has to walk their little dog with her mother following behind at a distance, 'just in case'. And there has been a strange man in a car following children coming off the school bus. The (male) Police have refused to 'speak' to him as they say he isn't committing a crime. But we are all keeping watch on him and tell him to ...er...go away, which he does, but comes back another day.
Men men men - why? why? why? Is it testosterone? Or the Lads Culture?