Theres that statistic that says girls are more likely to be raped by someone they actually know, or someone who was once a friend that they knew.
I think that makes girls highly paranoid about meeting and friending new males. Girls don't know what exactly a rapist would look or act like, so they probably assume its the male who is least like their father, brother, relatives. Someone who acts weird.
Which that whole dynamic actually urks a nerve for me. I've known girls who label guys as 'potential' rapist for things like just trying to talk to them too much or always waving in halls. Which certainly the statistic is true, just seems like the introduction of more radical anti-social and immediately judgmental behavior seems so out of line. And the whole label of 'creepy' isn't really rightfully put anywhere, but has just become a new term girls use to put down men they don't like. Whatever happened to just talking to the guy like a friend and then informing them your not interested? Thats what girls did when I was in college, I notice the use of this 'creepy' term is more common among younger women. I think there is actually some 'rape education' course they started to teach to freshmen in college that teaches those statistics and it has given birth to this whole new belief that its dangerous to even be friends with a male. Of like the 6 females I've met in the past year around the age of 20, they all had some 'creepy' stories about some guy who they suspect is a potential rapist. Which not to dismiss their concern in anyway, but the stories they told me were just things like, the guy always tries to talk to them in the cafeteria even though she keeps ignoring him. I can't help but let it sadden me to think just that is now enough for girls to start rumors about some guy as being a 'potential rapist'. Is the solution to this problem really for everyone to be more immediately socially judgmental and anti-social, and judge people based on first glance?