re: #260 wrenchwench

Religious programming does not cause reactions like Rebecca’s to the elevator incident; the survival instinct does. The fact that women are vulnerable to rape does.

Just the other day, I was on an elevator at approximately 3AM when not just one, not just two, but THREE (count ‘em, three) black males in their early 20s got into my elevator. At one point, one of them asked me if I had change for a $5.

I was obviously almost robbed and killed, and anyone who scoffs at my trauma (and the profound attention-sustaining sociology it implies) is nearly as terrible as Richard Dawkins.