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Imagine if men were afraid to walk home alone at night | Katy Guest

There was uproar when women discussed an imaginary 9pm curfew on men, but the anger is misdirected
‘If women found themselves in charge of the world, they would … walk places, sometimes, without feeling scared.’ Photograph: lechatnoir/Getty Images/iStockphoto

What do women really want? And what would the crazy feminists do if they finally managed to steal all the rights from men, lock them up at night and keep the power for themselves? Well, the answers are just in, thanks to a thought experiment, and they might surprise you. “Ladies … what would you do if all men had a 9pm curfew?” in a random Tuesday morning

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