It's deeply insulting to Sarah's memory, her family and to women everywhere to now have "in future, ladies, here's what you can do that Sarah failed to do to" spouted at us when taking some form of action against the man nicknamed "the rapist" by colleagues was always an option.
"Waving down a bus" when you're not even at a bus stop is a complete impossibility anyway, they don't stop, you'd be lucky to get a second glance from the driver. And I dunno if you've heard but busses aren't just constantly driving down every single road 24/7.
Last week I tweeted about getting driven home at night from my local station which is two miles away and had numerous men in my replies clucking and tutting that I'd been so lazy and not walked such a short distance. 2 miles. Alone. At night. Fuck you.
It's either "awful what happened BUT what was she doing walking home alone at night though?" or it's "well well well, lazybones over there is getting in the car for a 2 miles trip is she, not very ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY". Have a word with yourselves.
When I went to uni in 2003 all the girls at the freshers fair were given personal alarms to carry at all times, like it was normal! And they were literally called "rape alarms". It had a pin you pull out if under attack that triggered a huge noise.
Getting to it while being attacked would have been quite a feat but I always wondered what would have happened if, in a situation it was designed for, I HADN'T managed to trigger it. Would people have gone "she was carrying her rape alarm though, why didn't she just use it?"
Cor, if you're a fella in my replies deciding now is the time to get extremely defensive please take it elsewhere, you're just showing me your arse and I don't wanna see it.
I seldom report tweets aimed directly at me coz most of the time whooooo cares but there was something about this one that made me go "not today, Santa" and @TwitterSupport has locked their account so cheers, Twitter. 
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