The killing of a 22-year-old nursing student has once again put the spotlight on dangers faced by female athletes who practice sports alone.
The killing of a 22-year-old nursing student has once again put the spotlight on dangers faced by female athletes who practice sports alone.
Please don’t think I want to downplay the horrific nature of this killing, but I don’t quite understand the thrust of this article. It seems to me the problem isn’t about female athletes being somewhere alone being something that they rightly, and very sadly, fear. Because it’s far from just athletes who have that fear when they’re someplace on their own like a woods. Because you don’t have to be an athlete to go into the woods alone and you are at risk as a woman regardless.
Women are not targets because they’re athletes, they’re targets because they’re women.
But I would appreciate an explanation of why I’m in the wrong here if I am.
I think you’re right, but I think the angle is female solo athletes must put themselves in danger in order to train with the same freedom of their male counterparts.
That makes sense. Thanks for giving me that perspective.
It’s also click-bait for nursing student. Has nothing to do with it.
I think it’s just exploring the effect on that specific demographic, not trying to say that it isn’t more wide spread.