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HOW SHOULD WOMEN ACT WHEN ENCOUNTERING MEN ON THE TRAIL, ESPECIALLY SOLO HIKERS?
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Nov 4, 2020 at 7:58 am #3682261
there were some good points brought about how women should react.
David, choose the ones you found most informative and list them here. Just the info gleened for women, don’t mention men
Nov 4, 2020 at 8:24 am #3682267Dan did your wife ask you that question?
Nov 4, 2020 at 8:51 am #3682276Dan did your wife ask you that question?
Nah…..she dictates how I should act.
It’s all about how women should react. So many men are jerkbaits nowadays. Can’t fix stupid!
Nov 4, 2020 at 8:57 am #3682278I’d carry pepper spray. Heck I do carry pepper spray. A bucket of water is just too awkward and too heavy. Violates the principles of backpacking light
Nov 4, 2020 at 9:24 am #3682283Is this asking women how we should act toward men when we hike alone or is it asking men how women should act to ensure our safety around other men or??
On the topic of how women should act in general, I say it starts when we are little: stop rewarding compliance in both boys but especially girls. Stop telling us we are good for obeying. Do try and appreciate ( or at least get a kick out of) girls that say no, that don’t comply, that push back, that don’t aim at being teachers pets etc. It takes either an innate temperament or practice to stand in a way that does not put someone else’s approval above our own “integrity”.
Any “no” should be taken as “no” but why not feel confident while saying it.Nov 4, 2020 at 11:12 am #3682303^ + raise an individual not an automaton? What a subversive idea. Someone who demands to be met as a person and not an object?
Nov 5, 2020 at 7:49 am #3682442That’s it?
Nothing else learned from David Gardner’s thread?
Nov 5, 2020 at 11:04 am #3682473On the topic of how women should act in general, I say it starts when we are little: stop rewarding compliance in both boys but especially girls.
Absolutely Kat. It’s amazing to me how subtly ingrained these behaviors are. When my children were young I had to have a talk with my own family members about this, even my liberal mother, a woman highly educated and steeped the feminist and civil rights movements of the 60s…Why was everyone complimenting my daughter for being cute and my son for being smart when she is equally (if not exceptionally) gifted in different ways…
It’s interesting seeing the default that people often revert to without even realizing it.
Nov 5, 2020 at 11:41 am #3682480Nov 5, 2020 at 8:00 pm #3682570I recently saw a video of a pretty agressive cougar on the trail. It was on youtube.
Nov 6, 2020 at 6:45 am #3682620“I recently saw a video of a pretty aggressive cougar on the trail. It was on youtube.”
I was tempted to run with that one, but I’m already in enough hot water. However, it would have given the blue pill guys an opportunity to display their chivalry.
Nov 6, 2020 at 7:59 am #3682631I go on trail to take a break these kids of discussions. A perfect trail is one where you encounter no people, men, women, single or otherwise.
Nov 6, 2020 at 6:17 pm #3682748Nice, that Anni DiFranco.
Nov 7, 2020 at 12:26 pm #3682835^^ yes
Nov 7, 2020 at 8:20 pm #3682893“Just the info gleened for women, don’t mention men”
Not sure what you mean Dan. I was interested in was hearing from women what words/behaviors put them at ease or made them uneasy when encountering men on the trail. So men could glean the lessons.
Seems like you’re asking the opposite?
Nov 9, 2020 at 6:01 am #3683030David, should they be talkative, reserved, one or two words………
How should women act????
Nov 9, 2020 at 9:17 am #3683050However women want.
I’m not trying to be cute or evasive. First,
I would not pretend to answer on behalf of someone else.
Second, “should” totally depends on what a person wants to communicate. There are plenty of guidelines from women who have contributed to that thread about what works or doesn’t work for them, depending on context and intention. As well as plenty of feedback from women to contributions from men on this subject.
Hopefully we all try to speak and act with some self-awareness and consideration of what and how we are communicating, and how it might be perceived (or misperceived).
Nov 9, 2020 at 10:27 am #3683064Never Mind!
Cheers
Nov 10, 2020 at 11:49 pm #3683384I think Doug won this thread.
Nov 11, 2020 at 8:20 am #3683401I completely misunderstood the op and his ALL CAPS question.
I thought he was asking if women should maintain eye contact, make themselves look larger, and throw rocks, or avoid eye contact and slowly back away speaking in a low calm voice.
Nov 11, 2020 at 9:27 am #3683408I wish more would offer snax…
Nov 25, 2020 at 8:34 am #3685675They should…..act normal….
And they do.
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