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Being a woman means being told, from infancy, to fear the unknown. Meanwhile, the known is far more fearsome. More stepfathers have molested their de facto daughters than strangers have jumped out of bushes and deflowered the innocent. This is a statistical fact.We are nevertheless told to fear the phantom hands and dicks of strangers because it's easier than explaining that, more often than not, the most insidious characters lie right under our noses. How do you explain to a girl child that, when her father's friend Jim makes her sit on his lap, he might have ulterior motives she's too young to understand? It's far simpler to make her fear a man she's never met, a man who's never plied her with candy while telling her she'll make a "beautiful woman" when she grows up.It is impossible for a woman to ever truly be safe, even if she were to lock herself up and throw away the key.
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