Laborers! Why, they might look upon her with their filthy peasant eyes!
Have you noticed that people who are worried about how public life will put girls in the presence of people who could harm them never have any solution to the problem in mind except removing girls from public life? This grandmother places no weight on the very sensible check-ins that the child makes with her father, nor does she suggest a self-defense class or mention any kind of what-if conversations or roleplays the family might have done to prepare for a missed bus, unfamiliar construction, a fire truck, or whatever. There's no action the girl could take to make herself safer.
Nooo -- instead she has to passively put herself in the hands of someone her grandmother hires to walk her home and "get her started on her homework." In other words, a stranger who's going to come into her house with her. Yeah, lovely.
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Have you noticed that people who are worried about how public life will put girls in the presence of people who could harm them never have any solution to the problem in mind except removing girls from public life? This grandmother places no weight on the very sensible check-ins that the child makes with her father, nor does she suggest a self-defense class or mention any kind of what-if conversations or roleplays the family might have done to prepare for a missed bus, unfamiliar construction, a fire truck, or whatever. There's no action the girl could take to make herself safer.
Nooo -- instead she has to passively put herself in the hands of someone her grandmother hires to walk her home and "get her started on her homework." In other words, a stranger who's going to come into her house with her. Yeah, lovely.