After a long day at work, it is time to go home now, so you walk to your car and realize you're completely alone in the garage, with your keys spread out across your fingers your steps become longer and faster. Ready to press the alarm if you feel like there’s danger. You get close - jump in your car, automatically lock the door and sigh in relief. Walking alone at night is scary, right?
It's finally feeling like spring, and you put on a new sundress and decide to go on a walk alone and get some fresh air, your roommate empathetically reminds you to take a purse with you so you can carry your pepper spray. It is better to be safe right?
At university orientation, you watch an anti-sexual harassment skit and then the administration announces its new self-defense class - you know, so it doesnt happen to you.
WOMEN ARE TAUGHT TO LIVE BY A RAPE SCHEDULE.
UN Women estimates that every 1 in 3 women will face gender based violence at least once in their lifetime. This may read as a statistic to you, but to most women it reads as a reality we have learned to live around. Every woman is conditioned to place restrictions or make alterations to their lifestyle in order to avoid sexual harassment, like sisyphus we have to do things throughout the day to protect ourselves from sexual assault.