Hmm. But by the same logic is not every person I meet potentially a pick pocket as I zip up my handbag – and indeed will not buy a handbag that does not zip. And all of London is a potential burglar as I lock up my house each morning.
That second example’s interesting, people often hark back a golden age when you could leave your door unlocked. We have friends in the country that do it. So maybe that does destroy my argument in part.
But I guess like most things in life it’s a question of degree. I’m aware of the man behind me as I walk home late at night, but the way some people talk it feels like they think every woman spends every minute of her life thinking about being sexually assaulted. I just don’t feel like that and I don’t believe the majority of women do either. To me it seems like I’m being made into some sort of victim that I just am not.
Maybe I’d feel differently if someone did sexually assault me. I hope I don’t have to find out.