Ultimately, the handful of safe spaces we find usually revolve around our families and other people we trust — our friends. The friends we surround ourselves with — the women and the men — more or less hold similar values as us. But within these safe spaces, women sometimes find themselves in perils brought on by trust. We find that maybe not all our male friends have the same expectations as we do from our friendships. Stories abound of where my women friends, co-workers, classmates, have been subjected to emotional abuse because of their passivity, or where their sexual appeal was the only thing that mattered about them.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 16, 2017 12:33 UTC