My employer recently hired an elderly couple to do janitorial work at our small office.  I voluntarily stay until they are finished because I don’t want to see anything bad happen to them when they leave.

Oh, I see.. I get it now. Well, all I can say is it worked for me about 7 or 8 times, so I’m sticking with it.
I used “crazy” because I was quoting the commentator who said men referred to her as a “crazy bitch”...hence, I said better to be “crazy” than dead. It’s only “problematic” if you’re digging really deep to…

The other night I was walking to my house from my car with my boyfriend. We were taking up the whole sidewalk, and I could hear someone walking behind us so I guided him over closer to me so they could pass. He was so confused about what I was doing until the person (who turned out to be another young woman) passed…

Well, it’s one approach. Use your radar, too. And of course getting the hell out of there as fast as possible and avoiding the whole thing is the best, but if you can’t.... be a huge pain in their ass. 
Don’t be aggressive if you can make yourself scarce! But for me, pretending nothing was going on, in hopes it would…

Ask yourself the question, would you feel differently if this were your daughter?

Thank you for this advice. I never know if I should be aggressive or just ignore them, so it's good to know it's the former.

Me pulling a knife on someone harassing me and getting him to run away is about as far from “catering to men” as I can imagine, but okay.

I made it very clear that this might not be the best response in some situations. I never said it was “simple” I said I have survived abduction, robbery and rape attempts. Thanks for shaming my survival, though! I’ll try to do it your way next time and get back to you.

Fine, but that “statistic” (which you do not cite), has nothing to do with what I am saying and merely serves to illustrate that the weaker and more vulnerable one appears, the more likely they will be the target of a crime. Ergo, the more of a pain in the ass it will be for the would-be criminal to attack a person,…

Facing a killer is rare. Facing someone who is going to sexually assault you, not that rare. Suffersfoolsglady is speaking from experience—multiple experiences in fact—of coming face to face with someone wanting to rape her. I think we would do well to heed her advice should we ever be in a similar situation. Sure,…

Actually, an absolute defense to “slander” is the truth. The truth is that he raped and murdered this woman...So we can go ahead and call him a rapist and a murderer.

Happy to to give you my thoughts on this issue

No, it’s a way in which I escaped rape and abduction on numerous occasions. As someone who was first sexually assaulted at 9 years old, I’m not so much into blaming anyone for being traumatized. No one ever got to me after that, and believe me people tried. I believe it’s because I made it too much trouble for the men…

That’s a terrible choice to have to make! I’d make the same decision. 

The object is not to win, it’s not to die or get raped. If they think you’re crazy, they leave you alone.

Bull. I am saying I had better results when I was aggressive in response to unwanted male approach. I also said I was assaulted by a neighbor, which happened twice when I was nine. Having been a victim myself, the last thing I’m going to do is blame someone for being attacked! Are you out of your mind?
I was stalked…

I had a man in a major US city come at me and threaten me with physical violence on a major city street in broad daylight for rejecting his advances (fortunately other people intervened on my behalf). I’ve been called an ugly bitch, a cunt, whatever, just for ignoring dudes. Guys getting out of their cars,…

I’ve done the same, and the men usually respond with something like, “I was just saying hello, you crazy bitch”. There’s no way to win with these men. 

As a female person, I had a lifetime of catcalls, attempted rape, attempted kidnapping, stalking and all the rest to contend with. (As a child I was molested by a neighbor.) One thing I found is that when I was aggressive in return, these men were less likely to mess with me. (Of course there’s always the chance this…

Key factor missing here, he was released from an Illinois prison in December 2018 after serving two years of a six year sentence for armed robbery.