“I’m a mother—I get the protective instinct—but women shouldn’t need to be protected by their men from other men. It’s connected to the view that women aren’t seen as fully human, fully worthy of respect, but rather potentially prey for some men, and then it becomes the job of other men to rush in and protect them. I don’t want to be protected. I want to be left alone. I want to be able to walk down the street safely.”
