There’s no way that race should be left out of that silly scenario floating around. For women at the top of the predatory, I mean social power structure, their fear is not warranted enough for discussion nor is their fear systemic. Anyone can come across a terrible person. That’s a basic human fear, even the same thing goes for animals.
However, white women do not have any systems preying on their very existence.
Enough with their fake fear. As a Black woman I will never place myself nor my fears in any of the same categories as white women. I am not the same as them. I have nothing in common with them (on a systemic level.)
I have real, true fear! Not some silly social media game in which they log off, they know their whiteness will protect them from virtually, almost everything man-made.
Thankfully I’ve done very little reading and virtually no engagement regarding these so-called damsels in so-called distress.
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Anyway…moving on and spending as little time possible talking about other people. I’m over it & prefer to focus on my own life stories!
I posted this on FB:
Some years ago 1 time I was actually in the woods , at an educational event, we were there as stargazers since I love astronomy, photography, and nature.
The trauma is sad but the story is still funny.
I could not see much of anything, and definitely couldn’t see face details because it was almost pitch black, but I could only see skin color, and noticed everyone was white & they were the only things out there that were not hard to see.
I now realize that I was basically having an anxiety attack. I got the hell out of there. I did not care that there were also lots of women and children; I was the only Black in the woods & my ancestral trauma, instincts, and common damn sense kicked in & I rushed to my car and left.
I was so scared driving out of there & I didn’t know my way out so I pulled over & was frozen in fear until another car came and I followed them out.