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Originally Posted by jo_thorne
Self-defense knowledge is great, but I don't know how useful it would be in the situation you're talking about.
I think I know what country you're writing about, if it's the one that has frequent news stories about women being attacked.
It's a societal problem. I can see why the girls stay at home, if losing your life is a real possibility if you go out.
I can't think of any easy solution to this problem. Until your society starts to condemn the behavior of those harassing men, or they start to be prosecuted by the law, it's hard to see anything changing.
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I doubt it is the country you think it is. Girls won't be killed simply by going out, but will be harassed and bothered by men and their looks. It is difficult to say for sure because if it happened probably it won't be filed, but the raping rate is very low. It is mostly verbal harassment and staring harassment. But still this is scary enough for most girls I guess to prefer to stay at home most of the time. But if someone tries to intervene, this will trigger a fight as those men have no sense of shame of what they are doing, and will take the intervention by someone as something violating their rights or way of life.