Hey folks this is Ben, all of my invites have expired so im piggybacking on Tori's post.
  I have been chewing on this geographies of fear discussion for a while now and I have come to the conclusion that that peoples association witch pace and fear is probably a good thing.  if you fear a place its probably for a good reason.  What that fear does is it keeps you from going to these places unnecessarily and if you do need to go to these places you are going to take precautions to keep yourself safe.  There reason these places are scary is it gives unsavory people an opportunity to put themselves into a place of power over someone.  There is always going to be unsavory people in this world, I don't care what kind of ultra educated utopia you live in there will always be people who think they can pull some crap and get away with it.  So if you don't fear these places, weather man or women, your likely hood of being assaulted increases greatly.  You might think that men may not have to worry about situations as much as women, but the truth of the matter is that they should probably should, men just tend to come down with a  bad case of testosterone poisoning and end up ignoring the danger in a situation and end up in trouble.  I think regardless if you are a man or women you should never trust any person you don't know any farther than you can throw them.