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Topic: pardon my french but...
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nia
VoivodFan
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posted February 24, 2003 15:28
   
Thanks for your concern Outcast. I do consider myself a feminist, but I'm not part of any group. I haven't really thought about my personal safety too much in Mtl. Probably because I don't live alone so I rarely go out at night by myself. Actually, I might be more worried if I lived in France, with all of those rapes happening in the suburbs. That's some heavy shit that's going down.When I was in my 20s and lived alone I used to go to shows in really horrible neighbourhoods by myself (I would hook up with friends at the venue), as in total junkie, prostitution hell hole type places - this wasn't in Mtl though. In retrospect that was probably stupid and I could have asked someone to go with me, but at the time I thought it would be a wimpy thing to do. I guess I was lucky, but I always tried to be as safe as possible, not walk on deserted streets, etc. Having to worry about personal safety really is the sucky part about being a girl, but whatever, you just deal. Or maybe women are just more openly concerned, because men are attacked often too. Just the other day some drunk guy was beaten with beer bottles into unconciousness by a group on St-Laurent (which is a street with a lot of bars on it). So you never know but being aware of your surroundings is half the battle. One of my brothers is 6'4 and well trained in martial arts and fighting (he used to go to fight clubs on the weekends) but even he carries pepper spray because he'd rather deal with someone in a non-physical way first (and because he's big he'd probably end up charged with assault).
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