Staples

In the staples article he describes how he often perceived as a threatening person in certain situations. I have been in similar situations as the ones he describes in the essay. I don't think I have ever reacted in the same way that the people in the essay did.
I was in New York with my little sister late at night. It was just the two of us. We were walking from a store back to our hotel. It was dark and we couldn't see very well. There was a group of men waking towards us and I was nervous because we were just two girls that were young and we had no form of protection. You never know if someone has intentions of harming another person. Our thought in this moment is that it is better to be cautious and have nothing happen than to not be careful and potentially get hurt. We linked arms and I pretended to be on the phone with my dad. I think I would still react the same way. I didn't want to make the men feel uncomfortable but as a woman I feel like I do need to be cautious. There are so many stories of bad things happening to women who aren't cautious an it is better to be safe than sorry.