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An open letter to men, who can help female runners feel safe
NT News ^ | December 6, 2016 | Carolyn Tate

Posted on 12/06/2016 11:08:19 AM PST by conservative98

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To: knarf

She doesn’t look like much of a runner to me.


81 posted on 12/06/2016 11:55:41 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: NorthMountain
If she made you a sammich ... would you actually eat it?

Valid point. I'd have to see it first, I guess. Maybe take a little nibble to see if it's any good. That said, healthy kitchen exercise isn't limited to making sammiches...there's all other kinds of fun things to do if you know your way around a kitchen.

82 posted on 12/06/2016 11:57:00 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: conservative98

I was weary while walking to my car while taking night courses in college. Pepper spay had become popular and was paranoid of crazed paranoid women running around. Together {a word which scares some women (to-get-her)} you get a pair of paranoids. Which is really bad for the pizza.


83 posted on 12/06/2016 11:57:10 AM PST by ThomasThomas (Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
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To: conservative98
Making strange people I don't know feel "safe" is not part of my job description.

I suggest the author of the article purchase a quality handgun and some training in its carry and responsible use.
84 posted on 12/06/2016 11:57:15 AM PST by JamesP81 (The DNC poses a greater threat to my liberty than terrorists, China, and Russia. Combined.)
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To: Snickering Hound

What???? There’s a gun in that picture??????


85 posted on 12/06/2016 12:02:07 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: conservative98

You may think that’s hyperbole, but I promise you, it’s not. Every woman I know has been in a situation at least once in their life when they thought their life was actually in danger. Can you imagine that?”

Doesn’t this woman know that most men have felt “their life was actually in danger”? Far more men are murdered in this country than women. How clueless can this idiot be?


86 posted on 12/06/2016 12:04:55 PM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
• Stop groping us.

• Stop flashing us.

• Stop raping us.

• Stop murdering us.

Wow, she starts out sounding sort of reasonable, and then ends up THERE?

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The above No-No's do NOT apply to Hussein Obama's Muslim refugees. As part of the Muslim experience, they are allowed to rape, slit throats or even shoot the faster runners as part of the Muslim experience.

Hussein Obama, America's FIRST Muslim President, realizes some Americans will die before Americans are converted to Islam.

Hussein is good with Muslim harassement of infidels. The end is what is important, a world under Sharia Law.

87 posted on 12/06/2016 12:06:22 PM PST by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing)
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To: Bratch

“So can a german shephard”

Exactly. Oddly when I used to run with a couple of Belgians, I never had to deal with jackasses. Once I went out without them and was surprised at the instant catcalls. These were guys in cars. Never went out without the dogs again.


88 posted on 12/06/2016 12:06:28 PM PST by Varda
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To: conservative98
Either way, the fact that women feel unsafe when they’re out running in public is directly attributable to men. Victorian teen Masa Vukotic was murdered while out on a regular evening walk. She was in a park, in daylight, only a 500 metres from her home when she was killed. Source: Facebook

You lost me when your "source" was Facebook.

Did anyone mention the overwhelming tendency of females (especially the most vulnerable who don't carry and have no self defense training) to vote for liberals who have created the conditions in which crime and thug behavior has blossomed over the past four decades?

89 posted on 12/06/2016 12:09:04 PM PST by JayNorth (Barack Obama and Joe Biden are proof positive that two wrongs don't make a right!)
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To: rlmorel

Of course.

But how do you make a woman you don’t know feel safe?


90 posted on 12/06/2016 12:09:42 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Snickering Hound

D’d’d’damn! I know what the old lady’s getting for Christmas!
Where can I buy that.


91 posted on 12/06/2016 12:13:58 PM PST by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: conservative98

Need I say it?


92 posted on 12/06/2016 12:14:35 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: conservative98
Here's the summary for those pressed for time: "Women runners are a little crazy and think all men are rapists and killers. Mostly because men are all rapists and killers. Don't rape or kill women when they're on a run. Thanks."

If she limited to just some Mexicans being rapists and killers than there's probably be protests all across the nation by people wearing safety pins. But since she said it was all men who are likely rapists and killers it's okay.

93 posted on 12/06/2016 12:16:36 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: conservative98
STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO RUN!

Before Feminism, men used to be protective; and, then we humiliated them for opening the car door for us. Make up your mind girly.

94 posted on 12/06/2016 12:17:39 PM PST by donna (I want to live in a Judeo/Christian country where we know that, before God, men & women are equal.)
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To: conservative98
Wow, all these rules I have to remember. My head hurts.

I love how all these woman libbers have to keep reminding us men how delicate and fragile they are and how we are perceived as such a threat to them. As if a man never gets a shiver up his spine when he's running alone and sees a thuggish looking character with a hoodie.

Going running with a man if you feel so threatened! Or invest in a treadmill.

Also, if I stopped a jogging woman to tell her that there were lights out in the bridge ahead, she would either get offended or she would call the cops on me.

95 posted on 12/06/2016 12:18:31 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Leaning Right
But the article made many good points. Well worth reading!

Nonsense. It is not my responsibility to make others "feel" safe...or anything else.

This was nothing but the vain ramblings of a "hot house flower."

96 posted on 12/06/2016 12:20:56 PM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: conservative98
Buy a treadmill. Go to a gym.

Or embrace that the world can be unsafe, and prepare accordingly. Run with a friend. Join a running club that goes out en masse.

Stop demanding that others are responsible for your safety.

97 posted on 12/06/2016 12:21:41 PM PST by onona (Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
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To: CaptainAmiigaf
HEADPHONES will cut of the SOUND of approaching footsteps

Footsteps are the last thing to worry about around here. A lumber truck going a bit fast for the road is a much greater risk.

98 posted on 12/06/2016 12:23:59 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: lee martell

Well said-all the kids in the family I grew up in were brought up with the understanding that we were to mind out manners when not at home on the ranch-or else. My cub was brought up the same way even though quite a few of her friends were not. I’m the only woman on a crew of men-I’m treated as an equal, and I treat my co-workers with the same respect they show me-too many women demand equality only until they have to reciprocate-then they want to be treated like women-I consider most women untrustworthy snowflakes-weak sisters-I won’t work with or for them, and most of my friends are guys...

I suppose I’m spoiled by living in a remote place-there are plenty of places to hike right outside the back gates on this road, and a lot of us hit the trails by the river and in the woods every weekend, at least. I’ve never come across an impolite, obnoxious or threatening person on the trail, people greet each other and walk together often-I carry when I hike, but that is more about animal predators than human ones.

This is just a semi-trashy redneck place-not some gated enclave-but there is no way I would hike or run in any greenbelt or other park in the city, armed or not...


99 posted on 12/06/2016 12:26:02 PM PST by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to drive a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

Since I treasure women I understand how the world is a much more dangerous place for them. Pretend you are always walking/running in a ghetto and you get some idea.


100 posted on 12/06/2016 12:26:17 PM PST by arrogantsob (=)
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