Blue Skies
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I completely respect your POV. But to me, IMO, the dire warning was nothing more than infantilization and undermining of a competent adult woman who was capable of taking of herself and also has a history of taking care of others. I do not doubt that it was said, but I find the remark suspicious in context, and then it was repeated by MT as though that is confimation of the validity of a position that a woman should always be frightened to be alone, as you say, in the middle of nowhere. I am addressing that context - it really is the middle of nowhere - and unless there had been a recent upsurge in crime and attacks on women, MB had been safe and was safe, except for some specific person(s) wanting her quite dead - not robbed, not attacked, not injured, not scared, not raped, not carjacked, dead.
Respectfully, I completely disagree with what you are saying. I don't think him telling his wife to be careful is suspicious, infantilizing, or undermining at all. I don't find it suspicious that he repeated it either. I think maybe he repeated it because he was looking back wishing he would have said or done more, a normal human reaction in these circumstances IMO. I'd be more suspicious if he didn't have concern for her safety. Some of us independent, competent women still like to be treated like a woman.
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