Girlfriends' Guide to Getting Fit: Philadelphia must face this issue

August 06, 2003

Philadelphia must face this issue

ELLEN, journalist and anti-athlete: My strategy for safe exercise is cowardly. I choose to exercise indoors.

While my girlfriends have some good advice, short of convincing a very large person to run with me, I would not exercise outdoors. I have been jumped twice, and I can attest that you don't have time to dial a cell phone and screaming doesn't help. Pepper spray can be used against you. Only instinct and the grace of God can help you survive. I just won't take that chance again.

Is my solution a good one? No.

It peeves me to no end that women cannot feel safe in our treasured Fairmount Park in the wake of the murder of one woman and the rape of another. The young people of this city are its future and it is essential that the community take every step available to make our parks friendly and safe.

So my answer is not a personal strategy but a community one. If you and others who care about women and care about Philadelphia are not doing something proactive right now about the safety of women in the city, then you are part of the problem.

Focusing on taking care of yourself is a courageous strategy. Here are several others:

Join the proposed Friends of the Wissahickon Park Watch Program. Call 215-247-0417 and volunteer to help get Park Watch up and running, or just to get the latest information on how it's coming along.

Call the Philadelphia Homicide Unit with tips or concerns about women's safety, 215-686-3335.

Call the Citizens Crime Commission and offer help or money for its reward program, 215-546-8477

Contribute your time or money to the battered women's center or rape crisis center in your area that specializes in prevention. You must have other solutions, Philly girls! Email me or hit ADD YOUR OWN to immediately share your ideas for those searching for a way to make a difference. Posted August 06, 2003 12:01 AM

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