Sure strut

[Tal45]

Just read about this on the BBC and thought it was worth posting, it's about a number to call for women walking home alone late at night, someone will talk to them all the way to the door.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-60055916

I can understand how that might be reassuring but personally I would rather not be chatting on my phone, I would rather be concentrating on the environment, who is around me etc.
Phone in hand ready to call 999 if I was feeling threatened.

It feels like plastering over a crack in the dam

Completely absurd and wholly inadequate.

Where I live you'd just get mugged for your phone. I never walk with my phone out.

Agree that it makes you less able to be aware of your surroundings.

Complete fucking bollocks and rightly or wrongly I feel like this is a betrayal of people who are doing real work around women's actual safety.
This libfem rubbish about feelings is always a red flag. Women aren't being stalked, raped, murdered because of how we feel, we feel unsafe because we are unsafe.
We're supposed to be full citizens, we pay tax like everyone else. why are we being fobbed off with this substandard nonsense?

I don't even like the name of it. 'Strut'. It reminds me of 'strutting your stuff', when in fact, women are just walking, trying to get safely from a to B and not fucking strutting.

@DorothyZbornakIsAQueen

I don't even like the name of it. 'Strut'. It reminds me of 'strutting your stuff', when in fact, women are just walking, trying to get safely from a to B and not fucking strutting.

Yep.

The idea is like sticking a tiny small plaster on great big bleeding open wound.

@DorothyZbornakIsAQueen

I don't even like the name of it. 'Strut'. It reminds me of 'strutting your stuff', when in fact, women are just walking, trying to get safely from a to B and not fucking strutting.

Yes: strut is very male gaze or the Daily Mail claiming that someone is showing off their fabulous abs/body shape etc.

As you say, it's such an utterly bizarre way to describe a woman just trying to make her way home safely with herself and her belongings intact.

And 'people' ? I am pretty sure she would have said women, had she not been so aware of the probable backlash.

But yes, the last thing I do when walking home at night is 'strut'. I'm not touting for busines.

This also places the responsibility- again - on us to not be attacked. It's like telling women not to wear shirt skirts, not to drink, or not to walk home alone/in the dark. A woman not on Strut who gets attacked will now have to wonder (or be told) that had she used strut, he wouldn't have attacked her.

How about the police start tracking serial perpetrators - the men most likely to attack a woman - and leave us in peace?

How about the police start tracking serial perpetrators - the men most likely to attack a woman - and leave us in peace?

Thinking of the poor woman who was stabbed in broad daylight: from the scant details so far, the man who attacked her matched Monckton's criteria, was known to the police and she still couldn't be protected.