{"id":30059,"date":"2021-03-23T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/mar\/23\/i-had-a-narrow-escape-from-fred-and-rosemary-west-the-sense-of-being-prey-haunts-me"},"modified":"2021-03-23T04:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:00:39","slug":"i-had-a-narrow-escape-from-fred-west-knowing-youre-prey-is-an-ever-present-fear-for-women-sally-j-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30059","title":{"rendered":"I had a narrow escape from Fred West. Knowing you&#8217;re prey is an ever-present fear for women | Sally J Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young women quickly come to realise that our world is a very different place from that of our male friends<\/p>\n<p>Creatures that are hunted need survival strategies. I watched a video clip of a cat seeing off a black bear. Despite the ridiculous size difference, the cat flies at the bear \u2013 all ferocity and flashing claws. Small animals turn fear into rage, and sometimes \u2013 only sometimes \u2013 rage saves them.<\/p>\n<p>These thoughts come to me in the quiet garden of my Wellington home. Sexual assaults have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/wellington-sex-assaults-increase-by-nearly-50-per-cent-over-five-years\/5YKNV6XBGEVOA4KFQP7OUFMNUE\/#:~:text=Wellington%20sex%20assaults%20increase%20by%20nearly%2050%20per%20cent%20over%20five%20years,-9%20Mar%2C%202021&amp;text=The%20number%20of%20sexual%20assaults,five%20years%2C%20police%20data%20reveals.\">increased in this city by 50% over the past five years<\/a>. In the news, I read about an appalling killing in London. Women protesting, holding vigils and being beaten by the police as \u201cactivists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/mar\/23\/i-had-a-narrow-escape-from-fred-and-rosemary-west-the-sense-of-being-prey-haunts-me\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young women quickly come to realise that our world is a very different place from that of our male friendsCreatures that are hunted need survival strategies. I watched a video clip of a cat seeing off a black bear. Despite the ridiculous size differenc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30060,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30059\/revisions\/30060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}