…ce their environments. But the topic of suspicion, and the possibility of violence, kept coming up. Both for me as a researcher and for my subjects — male and female — there was a marked intersection between geocaching and gendered assumptions about threat and vulnerability in urban public spaces.
…as a man … men are always more …” she said. Sharkiefan couldn’t find the word, so she started again. “If you were a woman and there was a man lurking around acting a little bit weird, you’d be a bit creeped out. If it’s a girl, people are just like, ‘Oh well, whatever.’”
se keep people of color away …percent of geocachers identified as white, a statistic that matched my own experience in Melbourne. You could even speculate that geocaching is so white precisely because prejudices like these keep people of color away from the game.