LIKE MANY WOMEN, rising up assuming my very own bodily inferiority — or, in some unlucky situations, being proven it — causes one to maneuver round on the earth in a sure approach. There’s a unconscious worry that kicks in sure conditions, which taught me to consistently be cautious of my environment; to be careful for any threats from larger, drunker or angry-looking males; to current myself in a approach that makes me seem “acceptable” in gown and behavior; and to consistently have interaction in an act of self-surveillance — below the usually false pretence that I’ve management over how males might work together with me in public or personal.
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