I had an uncle that wouldn’t go walking without brass knuckles and a chain because he was scared of getting mugged.
He lived in the most upper class suburban neighborhood I’ve ever seen but the conservative talk shows had just poisoned his mind, he was afraid of everything.
I knew a guy who lived in rich suburbs and bought a gun because he “heard a drug deal went down” and he “wanted to protect his daughter”. People are stupid and even more so when scared.
Rich areas can be bad because that’s where thieves go.
Rich areas are bad because they have the rich in them.
As someone whose childhood neighborhood has been gentrified - full ack. The most unpleasant people.
Omg and we get to sing the ‘you can never go home!’ Song!
And just what… do you think this shows?
Because i am pretty sure it doesn’t show what you think it does
it shows that men, like you and me, don’t have to worry about the things women do have to worry about. ie, getting your drink spiked
it shows that men, like you and me, don’t have to worry about the things women do have to worry about. ie, getting your drink spiked
Cool. Tell that to the massive rash of drink spikings that affected Boston bars the past couple of years that affected both men and women equally. The spikings were totally random and not targeted to women. I’m sure the guys that got their drinks spiked would love to hear that they should never have to worry about it again because it doesn’t happen to men.
That’s a false equivalence, my dude. Just because random spiking occured and men and women were affected doesn’t mean that women aren’t targeted more than men.
Perhaps take jobs that require the ppe then.
The point of the post is that women are much more likely to need ways to safeguard themselves from other people.
That’s certainly your interpretation of it. I think it just shows that women doesn’t elect to work in jobs that require ppe.
Funnily enough, when i google the term, i get womens ppe as the top result.
Odd, I don’t see a single ppe product when I search “women’s safety items.” In fact the above meme pops up along with a lot of self-defense stuff.
Anecdotally, I have been noticing more women working construction; though I haven’t looked at statistics. As for other ppe fields, idk about gender disparities in those but I know nursing is a woman dominated field and that requires plenty of ppe. Science research, labs, factories etc I have no idea about.
It was only within the last ~5 years I could find multiple options for women’s safety shoes and not just small size men’s shoes. Even then, I end up having to buy them online.
My father had one woman classmate in his engineering classes back in the day. She was labeled as a ::shudder:: lesbian due to her STEM proclivities.
Can’t imagine why more women don’t want to go into fields that require PPE when they’re just so gosh darn welcoming.
Fake! If the safety items in the bottom half were for women, they’d be pink.
Somewhat /s
I never leave the house unarmed. I recommend self-defence classes and weapons training for each and every gal. There’s too many weirdos out there and having trained self-defence for quite many years became very useful a few times in the past for me.
Got to fuck em up like Captain Janeway did to Tuvix
Seriously though OP is spot on with the recommendation
I’m on board with Janeway’s decision on Tuvix but even I don’t compare what she did to him with self-defense, lol.
Oh definitely not self-defense, I was more alluding to fact about the shooting twice thing but I’m just getting use to replying to comments ( I usually lurk) and didn’t know how that would go over in this community and was not trying to get banned or make an enemy from a Janeway meme (:
Lol, I recently watched Voyager again and Janeway is badass. The only bigger badass is her:
