It's largely a sexist thing, the assumption is that it's better to have a bloke wandering around on their own than a women. (In terms of being attacked I don't think the statistics bear this out, but I reckon I could make a biblical case for it being appropriate for men to put themselves in harms way to keep women out of harms way.)
(Of this particular instance my feeling is more 'doesn't really matter', as our experience bore out.)
Incidently I observe that the argument given here undermines your demands in the past that, when in the middle of town, someone walk you home.
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Date: 2004-06-12 10:56 am (UTC)From:(Of this particular instance my feeling is more 'doesn't really matter', as our experience bore out.)
Incidently I observe that the argument given here undermines your demands in the past that, when in the middle of town, someone walk you home.