This is all just totally completely ridiculous!!!! I spent most of my youth being told I couldn't do this, that and the other...hitchhike or walk alone at night or whatever, because all men were nasty evil rapists just waiting to molest any female who gave them half a chance. I didn't listen...never was much good at listening...and it wasn't true. Now I'm hearing that the guys are all walking on eggshells because any woman is going to scream rape if they get within ten yards of her or make any comment appertaining to straight long things etc. I don't believe that's true either. The world hasn't become a sad place; its always had fools of both sexes who over-react, if you bother to listen to them. Thankfully, the fools are in a minority, and I KNOW that most people, at least in the UK, don't think like this.