<p>Rape doesn’t have much to do with attraction. I’ve seen women who by most standards are not particularly attractive have to testify against their accused rapist. It’s about power and control, not sex or attractiveness.</p>
<p>Are you implying that neither of the above mentioned categories attend college?</p>
<p>Now you’re just acting stupid. I was obviously exaggerating when I said anyone. There can be paraplegic people at college too, but most guys would be unwilling to rape them. This is just obvious.</p>
<p>Most guys would be willing to have sex with anyone normal (such as, at a normal age for attending college, like this girl). Men are horny sex machines nowadays.</p>
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<p>I am rubber you are glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you!</p>
<p>Yeah, just give the same reply a 5 year old would make instead of thinking of a logical, rational post. Very clever.</p>
<p>“@hyperJulie, can’t quite catch sarcasm. At. All.”</p>
<p>Heh. Well, it was apparent that your post was at least somewhat tongue in cheek. However, it was less clear whether the sentiment behind it was sarcastic or not. </p>
<p>Also, this thread is seriously devolving. :/</p>
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<p>So says the guy who has done nothing but throw out rash generalizations and exaggerations. Neither of which are logical or rational, and require very little thinking.
Don’t even try to not sound like a hypocrit or anything.</p>
<p>@hyperjulie</p>
<p>All things considered. At least it hasn’t reached the legendary status of gay roommate and cargo shorts threads.</p>
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<p>For the OP, this is true even more so. Bloomington-Normal may be the richest city in central Illinois, although that is a lot like being the beauty queen in the county pageant. I don’t even know if there are unsafe areas there, although I’ve only visited and never lived there.</p>
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Yeah, it seems fairly safe from when I visited the campus.</p>
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<p>hypocrite*</p>
<p>Come on, we both know how vulnerable college students are to hooking up nowadays. We both know how horny guys are. It’s just common sense.</p>
<p>On topic, I doubt you’ll need it. Just flash the Bat Signal and you’ll be fine in a few minutes.</p>
<p>Depends. If you’re in a bad area, or a campus reputed to have awful safety, than yes.</p>
<p>If not, you probably don’t need it.</p>
<p>Even if I did have it, how would I even have time to get that out of my purse…I think I’ll just see if my mom keeps talking about it or forgets about it. I don’t think it’d be that helpful.</p>
<p>Idk if this helps, but sometimes (when I remember, lol) when I’m walking by myself at night, I’ll hold my key between my index and middle finger so that it’s sticking out and just walk like that - if you’re attacked you’re supposed to be able to quickly stab someone. I have literally no idea how well this works and I’ve never been attacked or anything, but idk, it’s better than nothing I assume?</p>
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<p>Why wouldn’t it work? You don’t need time to prepare, you just stab. It’d hurt.</p>
<p>^^ Because your key isn’t longer than 1" and has no pointed tip. Chances are you won’t puncture the skin unless they’re running around naked and even if you did, you’d only cause superficial wounds. To quote my Algebra teacher from HS, if you’re in a fight you better get him on the ground quick and make sure he doesn’t get up. (Don’t **** him off more by poking him with your keys)</p>
<p>Oh, I just remembered that one of the things people say to do if you are walking alone at night is call someone and talk to them. This way you’re on the phone so if someone did attack you, hopefully the person you’re on the phone with would hear and know (they may or may not be able to send for help for you depending on who/where they are, but still). Also if you’re on the phone you might be less likely to be attacked for that very reason. I’d think it’s best to call a friend on campus and tell them where you’re walking to/from, so they’re aware of your whereabouts if something did happen.</p>
<p>Bornin92, I would think a person would be more likely to be attacked, because he/she is distracted with his/her phone. No one can multitask all the time, and unless you keep saying where you are, it’s not that likely for the friend to know where you are. I do think that calling a friend before you leave and when you get back is a good idea, though.</p>
<p>The best idea, imo, is to go with a group and leave with as close to the same group as possible. Strength in numbers and all that. Some people I know have also acted in really creepy or weird ways to scare would-be attackers off.</p>
<p>if the person really wants to attack you, a loud noise isnt going to stop him. but i mean it cant really hurt either at the same time. if your mom wants to buy it for you then do it. at some bigger universities it can be more of a problem, but i wouldnt let it worry you</p>
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<p>Well you should do this knowing your main objective is your safety. I’ve even heard to just pretend you’re on the phone. You have a point that you might be distracted, but if I ever did this I’d do it caring mainly about paying attention and not about the conversation, like I’d probably just have my friend keep the phone near on speaker or something. I would think texting is the worse thing, because then not only are you not paying attention but the attacker knows you won’t be able to actually tell anyone in the instant you’re getting attacked or threatened. But like you said, the best thing is to travel in a group. Sometimes it’s unavoidable though I guess.</p>
<p>^^ Or go everywhere on a bike. Hard to attack someone going 10 mph+</p>