Crime has many different faces. The crime we were trying to address here is a little different than sexual assault at a party, or walking home with a guy at night. This year and last year, there have been several reports from unidentified males approaching women on the street (although sometimes also in broad day light). That sentence was meant to address even a group of girls walking alone at night, or perhaps just one male student leaving a library to walk to their dorm off campus. It’s always good to use SafeRides,

No way is the intention of Vox to undermine a victim. The intention is to empower students with better decision making skills by calling SafeRides, or other university provided programs to allow a person to come home with a security guard. The “sticky situations” one encounters while walking home alone at night or even sometimes at odd hours of the day was not meant to imply sexual assault. The average student will also want to avoid getting robbed on his or her way home, or just being in a vulnerable position to other types of crime. The comment was not just geared to women either, it was also geared to men.

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Come on, Vox. So can having a guy walk you home at night (most sexual assaults happen when victims know their assaulter, and this did happen to a friend of mine). And so can walking alone in the Copley stairwell on your way to do your laundry (as happened several years ago). I count on you guys *not* to say stupid shit like this. Yes, walking alone at night can get you into sticky situations, but there’s really no way around half of this shit, and you guys aren’t really helping the victim-blaming problem.

I get what you’re saying, but once you know enough people who have been sexually assaulted in front of their friends at a party, or whose “nos” were ignored by the guy who walked her home (so she could avoid those “sticky situations”), these kinds of comments are really frustrating.