On Being a Woman in America While Trying to Avoid Being Assaulted

Paris Review | January 7, 2019 | R. O. Kwon

[yoe]

Lately, I’ve come to suspect that maybe a lot of people, especially men, still have no idea what it’s like to be a woman in America going about her life while trying, and at times failing, not to be assaulted. So, these past weeks, I’ve been observing myself.

[robowombat]

Kwon looks like a space alien. It would take a real nut to attack her.

[Kickass Conservative]

Looks like Julie Chen’s “before” picture.

[YogicCowboy]

I join you.

I cannot articulate the anger I felt in 1998 when the famous feminist cynically and conveniently excused Bill Clinton with, “All men are dogs.”

What if we said, All women are...? (which I would not).

[trebb]

Yep - those of us with lots of that “Toxic Masculinity” are able to control ourselves by respecting the women who respect themselves and staying off those who act like they’re chum....

[Pollster1]

Sorry, just going through a phase wear I don’t always proofread.

[coaster123]

Just as I instructed my wife.