I came across this post as I come across many posts– hopping from one link on a favorite blog to another…this is from a feminist blog collective I have never heard of, but the article is well written and definitely strikes a cord for me. This woman is definitely from NYC (as evidenced by the subway comments?) and I feel what she is writing here, despite the fact that I now live in Silicon Valley and have a wonderful relationship with a beautiful man who is not, in fact, Shrodinger’s Rapist.

Leo often asks me, however, why I react so strongly to men on the street, or even the thought of men on the street, and why they scare me so, and the article explains perfectly the answer I would give if I were more eloquent on my feet.

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