Personal safety advice has a place. BUT, safety advice aimed at women contains, buried inside it, a very polite little suggestion that this is your problem to solve.

Walk in well-lit areas. Don't wear headphones. Tell someone where you're going. Be aware of your surroundings. I have been aware of my surroundings my entire adult life. So has every woman I know. It hasn't made us a great deal safer. It has made us exhausted.

We ALL have a role in keeping women safe. The change needed is systemic. The focus shouldn't be on how women can be harder to target. We should be asking how targeting them is so routine that we've normalised a whole genre of advice around it.