I always thought I'd be a grown up when I grew up

It's sad but true that most men will never get what it's like. How in empty places or after dark, we look over our shoulders at every new footstep behind us to see who it is and assess their threat level. How a minute's walk cutting through an unlit car park on the way home is a genuinely scary experience (I used to have to do this regularly, and another woman going the same way once offered to give me bus fare because I looked so nervous). And even if nothing bad ever actually happens to you in your life, those things are still a fact.