Advice for boys...

[aumentou]

Hypothetically, if you are ever travelling down a dark path with no side exits and not observers and there's a woman on her own ahead of you on the route, it's not particularly polite to move fast enough that you're catching her up. Better to hang 40 yards back or so - you know, so that if you were hostile she'd have a good head start. Otherwise, she might get twitchy. Also, when she stands to one side and waits for you to pass rather than keeping on moving, that is not your cue to look amused. Yes, YOU know you're not a mugger or a rapist or anything like that. She doesn't. Since you have just moved in a way consistent with an attack, it's not unreasonable for her to be concerned.

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[mr-s-face.livejournal.com]

Hang further back than that. Ten yards and you're following someone. Further is better. But passing on a narrow path puts the person you're passing in a horribly weak situation - if they carry on walking, you've got a huge window of opportunity in which you're in a perfect strike position. So either they stand aside and let you pass, which means at some point they have no retreat option*, or they run for it straight away.

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Since most women aren't prepared for a one-on-one fight with most men, the logical course would be to accelerate her pace so you don't catch up with her, running if necessary. Of course, that's horribly rude of them to rush off like that - so often they don't, and leave themselves trapped in a weak position. But the real rudeness here is from the man - if you are moving fast enough to catch her up, then either you are compelling her to rush, or you're compelling her into a weak position as she gets caught, or you're compelling her into a one-on-one as she stops. Either way, that's not friendly.

[mr-s-face.livejournal.com]

Gah, leading spaces don't work. Move the them and you right a bit.

[astatine210.livejournal.com]

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