It’s partly fatalistic humor, partly practical. There is risk in the situation to everyone involved, but it’s way higher for women. You inform people of the circumstances of the date to increase your safety.
Letting someone else know your whereabouts is good defensive thinking. Wrapping the real need to do it in humor is a way to remove some of the sting from the truth of why youre doing it.
It’s because it’s fatalistic ‘humor’. If they actually believed there was a good chance of being murdered they wouldn’t go out.
It’s partly fatalistic humor, partly practical. There is risk in the situation to everyone involved, but it’s way higher for women. You inform people of the circumstances of the date to increase your safety.
Letting someone else know your whereabouts is good defensive thinking. Wrapping the real need to do it in humor is a way to remove some of the sting from the truth of why youre doing it.
Interestingly, it’s only defensive thinking if you also let your date know that someone else knows your exact location.
Its still defensive because if you go missing, there is a known suspect, time and location.
Wont help if he chokes you to death in a nearby car, but if you’re kidnapped, it gives police or competent parties a chance to find you.
Not true. It’s a risk analysis. The risk may be high, but some women still think the potential benefit is worth it.
It’s why so many people still play the lottery.
But the risk isn’t high. Sure, it happens, but for any arbitrary person the chance to be murdered on a date is pretty much 0.
The risk is high in consequences, not frequency.
Besides, murder isn’t the only risk, you know.
So… it’s the same chances as winning the lottery then.
If they wouldn’t go out because of the chances of being murdered they would never go anywhere.
I believe they didn’t mean it THAT literally