Women are living in fear and discomfort and it’s not fair- by Blogger Juan

Walking down the street, in a dark, cold night of September, on my way back from school, I noticed how women along the way would cross the street in order to avoid getting into close contact with me. This got me thinking. I started to put myself in the position of a woman and realized how easy we have it as men and yet we do not realize it until something like this occurrence happens. Women are living in fear and it just isn’t fair.

The same happens with wearing certain types of “provocative” clothes. I was speaking with one of my close friends a while back and he mentioned that he doesn’t like it when women wear tight clothes because it seems as if women are asking men to look at their body. Had to stop him there. I thoroughly explained to him what I felt about this comment. Honestly, if men feel like wearing whatever men will wear whatever, but when it comes to women this isn’t the same apparently. I told him that if a woman feels comfortable in the clothes she chooses to wear, she should have the right to wear whatever piece of clothing she pleases without having to be afraid or take in consideration so many expectations this society has implemented. It is saddening to know that we live in a society were gender binary has been normalized and until great minds start putting some ideas together, this will continue.