I'm sorry, I can't see the original video by Watson since I'm at work, so I can't comment fully on her original posts, but I can make one comment as a woman:
Someone on my female-only board posted the link that Savvy posted about "Schroedinger's rapist" last week. Almost every response said "you know, I read this blog wanting to object to something that was said, but I can't. I do feel threatened and scared in situations where my partner is absolutely a-okay and doesn't get why I'm uncomfortable". Only a very small handful of women said that they didn't have this feeling. I too, am often not comfortable in situations where my husband would have no inkling of any threat or harm. I have never been attacked by a stranger (man or woman), yet I have these thoughts in the back of my head. Not sure why, to be honest.
I do get a bit uncomfortable when the words "Potential sexual assult" get thrown around, however. Sometimes I think it's over the top. To me it's a "potential threat" not assult. But that's just me.
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