Wrapped up in every single thing of this general nature, to also include #MeToo and #YesAllWomen, ostentatiously whining about walking alone at night, and everything else you can think of, is a woman trying to smuggle the following proposition into your attention without saying it outright:

“I am attractive enough that men want me.” (Edit: and maybe even more specifically, “I am attractive enough to where the number of men who want me is higher than the number of men I would take.” Hence the certainty that she will be assaulted!)

That’s it, that’s all. “I’m doing this so I don’t get assaulted” implies someone has assaulted her, or that she thinks it likely someone will, and that all derives backward to what women naturally want: to be seen as attractive. There are giveaways in other parts of female rhetoric: note how Lizzo doesn’t say “I’m obese as hell and fuck you if you don’t like it” (which I would respect, honestly) but instead she says “I’m obese and I’m the new beauty standard!” Thats all modern day feminism is, and why it’s so youth-oriented and wrapped up in dating strategy and the language of dating. Women want to feel pretty, but some of them can’t admit that and have to sneak the idea through while wrapped up in empowerment and fierceness and YAS KWEEN rhetoric. I for one am not fooled.