One of my huge tv/film pet peeves is when a man comes home and is like "pack your things we gotta GO to his wife & she starts asking questions & moving slowly.....do cis male writers not know how much danger women are always in?? How quickly we've learned to react to emergencies?

If my friendly mild fiance came home and was like "Kayla we've got to GOOOOOO" I would start packing swiftly and silently. Questions are for the car ride away.

"whats going on, whats happening baby, you're frightening me *starts crying instead of grabbing valuables*"

Sounds like something someone who hasn't had to sprint away from strange men from age 13+ would write a woman to say and do.

The scariest horror/killer scenarios are ones where people ARE doing the best they can to get away, but still they fail and are savaged. So like............improve your writing. If not for me, then for your craft.

OOh! I want to post my favorite example of this. The extremely short (2m) film Lights Out:

people are commenting about how they move slow in emergencies...if you were mine & had my heart in your hands, I would train hard to be very strong, so that if there was danger, I could carry you and tell you on the way.

We would be slower but still moving and still together