I heard an awful ring of familiarity in the testimony this week from a woman who endured a brutal knife attack in a Tacoma park. Why did she think the suspect targeted her that day, the prosecutor asked.
“I think I was the one lone woman on the trail,” she said.
With her answer, she described a reality that women negotiate every day. Anyone can be a victim of violent crime, but women know we’re seen as targets just for being by ourselves in certain places. And we seem to know it inherently as a society, too, based on common warnings women receive not to do things alone…