Letters to the Editor
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Listen to your fiancee
There is little I can add to the mountain of sensible advice given by other letter writers, but my two cents are as follows:
I have long noticed how, in movies and television, in fictional stories and real accounts (worse, 're-creations of actual events' on crime shows), there is inevitably a man about to do something that ranges from the foolish to the dangerous, and a woman who is begging him not to. Please, honey, do not confront the ex-con (or pick up the hitchhiker carrying the machete, or go outside where the zombies await...)!
This is not to say that women never do anything stupid or dangerous. I am female and have done such idiocies as giving in to road-rage, pulling over and engaging in a screaming match with another driver.
I'm just saying, in this particular instance, the stereotype applies. Listen to the woman. She has the clear head in this situation.