Comment by Permit

1 day ago

> Just because it's all public doesn't mean you want the cashier from the supermarket following you around to your family picnic.

This has never happened to me. Out of the space of “bad things that can happen to me” I don’t have time to worry about things with such a small probability of occurring.

I think if you're a fat middle aged man, it's not likely to happen to you personally. But you must have daughters, nieces, a mother, or some sort of female presence in your life. It happens to people like them.

  • It's more likely to happen a woman than to a man, but it's still very unlikely to happen to a woman.

    • Very unlikely?

        An estimated 2.7 million Australian adults have experienced stalking since the age of 15, according to new results from the 2021-22 Personal Safety Survey (PSS) released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). 
      
        William Milne, ABS head of crime and justice statistics, said “We found one in five women and one in 15 men have been stalked.
      
        “Women were almost eight times more likely to be stalked by a male than by a female, while men were stalked by a male and by a female at a similar rate.” 
      

      ~ https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/1-7-austr...

But it has happened to other people. A stalker in Japan geo-located victim location from the reflection in the eye from public picture