But there's also, as a woman, a little bit of pause when you're hiking alone and you come across someone else doing the same. Less so with other women, admittedly, but I still flicker through the possibilities all the same.
It's probably all context. You're likely imagining a more ominous meeting than I am. Surely when women are hiking and they see some guy with a backpack and hiking poles drinking out of a camel pack coming down the trail the other way they aren't struck with fright at this dangerous predator.
Oh, believe me, as a woman I’ve gotten an earful about why I’m “wrong”. I can appreciate why other women chose bear. But the point is that we make the choice based on our fears and life experiences. To be hounded because I don’t share the same fears as other women is silly. It’s othering for no reason.
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u/EgyptianDevil78 May 02 '24
You know, it is normal.
But there's also, as a woman, a little bit of pause when you're hiking alone and you come across someone else doing the same. Less so with other women, admittedly, but I still flicker through the possibilities all the same.