That safety playbook

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It’s another day, another incident of violence against a woman, and another return to the same old playbook.

This is how the playbook goes: whenever a woman is molested, raped, or assaulted in a public space, the immediate response is that she should have stayed indoors. Or that other women should now stay indoors. This, authorities will argue, is protection.