The instinct that we have for our safety, and that the instinct teaches us to be afraid of men.

I went swimming at a lake recently and I was wearing kind of a sexy bathing suit (I lost the other one). The best rock to swim off of had a group of like 20 guys on it.

Going to the same rock wearing a bathing suit was never going to be an option for me, I wouldn't even consider it. My evolutionary wisdom tells me ABSOLUTELY NOT. We went to the other side and entered through an area that was harder to walk on.

Some men can get that if you explain it to them, but they will never have the internal instinct for it. They also don't realize that male expressions of anger (yelling, throwing things, slamming things) are TERRIFYING.

It's a reason that we can't have men in our vulnerable spaces. If our locker rooms are filled with men, women will stop going to the gym. And that will have measurable economic and social impacts.