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As men we have a responsibility to consider things from women's perspectives. I remember a time during my freshman year of college, asked a woman on a walk with me after 11pm. We walked around for a while and ended up at a park near campus.
I asked her what she thought about us and if she wanted to be my girlfriend. I could tell she wasn't the biggest fan of the idea, but she didn't say no either. I tried to plead my case, admittedly a little pushy about it.
Eventually we came to the conclusion that it wouldn't work out between us, and I walked her back to campus. I thought nothing of that situation until I revisited it in my mind a few months ago.
I thought to myself, "what if I made her uncomfortable with the way I approached her?" "What if I made her feel unsafe or even afraid to reject me?" I took her to a closed park past midnight. No one really knew we went.
What if I scarred her in some way? What if, to her, I was one of those men women warn each other to stay away from. I knew my intentions and my heart, but did she? How could she?
After some thinking praying, I hit her up to see how she viewed the encounter. To my relief, she told me she wasn't worried or afraid at all, and that she didn't think twice about it. But what if she had?
Us men have a responsibility to think situations all the way through, take our feelings out of it, and empathize with the plight of the woman. It's not fair to them that they have to fear for their lives everytime they interact with a man.
