Girl confesses that she is afraid to to walk home at night with any guy..../r/funny discusses (np.reddit.com)

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10 comments submitted at 18:09:58 on Oct 5, 2013 by DaedalusMinion

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  • DemonicBtch
  • 0 Points
  • 18:19:34, 5 October

Wowwww... the level of hostility there over a simple request is... wow.

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  • ArchangelleDwarpig
  • 1 Points
  • 18:46:19, 5 October
                       wow


  so wow

                                            such wow

          all my wow

wow

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  • redditbots
  • 2 Points
  • 18:10:20, 5 October

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  • DaedalusMinion
  • 1 Points
  • 18:39:00, 5 October

Personal opinion that the girl's very first comment was definitely normal and was upvoted (rightly so) but asking men to cross the road to keep her in a comfort zone? Nope, not doing that, ever.

I do sometimes move out of the way if someone feels my presence to be threatening (I'm a brown dude) but come on.

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  • ArchangelleTwerkin
  • -1 Points
  • 18:21:23, 5 October

Oh Jesus, tell some guys on reddit that you're uncomfortable walking alone at night and they go ape shit. God forbid you might actually (gasp) slightly adjust your path.

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  • DemonicBtch
  • 3 Points
  • 18:25:57, 5 October

Next up:

"You were raped? Well why were you walking alone in the dark?! Dumb bitch!"

Seriously, some of the reactions there were ridiculously disproportionate to the comment made.

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  • DrunkAutopilot
  • 2 Points
  • 18:33:39, 5 October

>Here's what helps: if you're overtaking a girl alone at night on a sparsely populated street, cross and give her a wide berth.

Really?

So if there's car traffic on the road, it's better I try and cut across that so some stranger, which I have no way of knowing if they feel uncomfortable in the first place, can possibly feel better? What do I do if there's another women walking down the street on the other side? Should I assume the fetal position and start to cry?

If you don't feel comfortable walking alone at night, DON'T WALK ALONE AT NIGHT. Expecting other people to conform to your issues is idiotic and selfish.

This isn't even a gender thing. For example, we all know people who are terrified of driving in rain or snow but then do so for completely unnecessary reasons, and then complain the whole time about other drivers passing them while they're doing 15 below the limit (when its not justified) creating a traffic hazard.

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  • ArchangelleTwerkin
  • 1 Points
  • 18:42:12, 5 October

Yep, that's what I'm talking about right there.

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  • DemonicBtch
  • 1 Points
  • 18:41:13, 5 October

She's hardly laying down the law and saying that everyone should do that. The OP posted a confession bear about being worried that he scares people on the street; she responded that sometimes that might be the case, and gave him a suggestion to help alleviate both of their worries. I don't see how that warrants people calling her a fat jealous feminist bitch, and whatever else people flung at her.

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  • DrunkAutopilot
  • 1 Points
  • 18:50:17, 5 October

Except the vast majority of the responses were not along those lines. Cherry picking one or two moronic comments to color the rest of them does not bolster your argument in any way. I completely agree those other comments were out of line, and either trolls or idiots (something reddit has way too many of).