This is horribly saddening to me. I have (we all have) tried to live life in a way that protects from unwanted sexual attention. I was not always successful, and sometimes garnered negative attention that had nothing to do with sex.

What kind of women would we have become, or could have been, if we didn't have this thing hanging over our heads like the Sword of Damocles? None of us will ever know the answer to that question. What type of woman would I have become if I hadn't spent so much of my life worried about how vulnerable I am to sexual predators?

How great we would have been? How great society would have been? What kind of happinesses would have found us? How much energy would we have had to do the things we want to do if so much of our energy and time wasn't spent protecting ourselves from the other half of humanity?