The first is that their victim doesn’t want to trigger a confrontation: even bold, brave women like the cosplayer I befriended at Sasquan get jittery about direct confrontation.
For Good Men To See Nothing
Ken Burnside
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Confrontations with people (in this case, men) you don’t know who are already doing something untoward rarely end well. I’d be jittery about that cosplay confrontation as well — what if he and his buddies tried to follow me around later?