All the mock outrage in the world won’t keep women safe

You have to wonder what the baying feminist commentators calling for the blood of the Victorian cop who warned women to be safe in the wake of Eurydice Dixon’s murder tell their kids when they want to play in a park unsupervised or go for a run after dark.

Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered this week, sparking police to call on women to take precautions. Picture: Supplied

“THE world is a dangerous place. Be careful of everything. I love you more than life itself. Bye,” says the mother of smart kid Spencer in the movie remake Jumanji.

The dialogue brought a smile of recognition from this mother who has regularly dispensed, almost verbatim, such survival advice over Rice Bubbles before school.

You have to wonder what the baying feminist commentators presently calling for the blood of the Victorian Police Superintendent tell their kids when they want to play in a park unsupervised or go for a run after dark.

Flowers left at the scene where comedian Eurydice Dixon was murdered. Picture: Nicole Garmston

Perhaps these women, who are now channelling their anger over the murder of Eurydice Dixon towards police advising caution to the general public, are more carefree and liberal in their own approach to parenting advice.

Perhaps they tell their children “Strangers are not to be feared. They are an opportunity in disguise”.

Or “Always be yourself — unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.”

Or, one of my personal favourites, “The secret to life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that. You’ve got it made.” (Courtesy of father-of-three, Groucho Marx).

Maybe the feminist mob now crying for police blood have been fortunate enough to have not been attacked or threatened by a would-be aggressor.

If they had, I can assure you they’d be slower to take up their contrived outrage and mock police comments concerning safety for a few “likes” and the entertainment of Twitter users.

The outrage over police comments in the wake of the murder is unwarranted. Picture: Wayne Taylor

As one who has been targeted — and was pursued on foot at night by a man police believed to be a member of a rape gang preying on women coming and going from Central railway station — I am never deaf to such advice.

I have learned that a little fear can and will keep you safe — though a lot of fear will paralyse you.

The challenge, as a parent, is to teach our children that danger does lurk unseen in unexpected places and that as women we are still more likely to be targeted by sexual aggressors than men. It’s a simple fact.

All the mock outrage in the universe — enough even to break Twitter — won’t keep us safe. Nor will punishing the police for trying to dispense sound advice.