Security is the denial of life - Germaine Greer

If a man punches you in the eye, you are not expected to have pleaded with him not to for the crime to be accepted as assault. If you are sitting at your cash register and someone demands the cash in it, you will not be accused of consent if you simply hand it over. Only in the prosecution of rape is evidence of resistance an issue.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

If we could stop thinking in terms of capture,
we would not have to fear the loosening of the captives’ bonds and
our failing beauty, and he would not have ulcers about being outstripped
or belittled