Women Are Sharing All The Things They Do To Try And Protect Themselves While Running
When she read the question in a Facebook group she's a member of, she began to reflect on all the things she does to protect herself while out exercising, such as staying in well-lit areas at night, going with friends, walking with keys between her knuckles, and pretending to be on the phone.
She said there have been times she pretended to go into a building to avoid a man following or yelling at her. "It just hit me like...wow, this is something most women think about every time we go out to get exercise or even just walk to our car," she said. Her tweet now has more than 1,000 responses, mostly of women sharing their own strategies to protect themselves.
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