Paranoid about where we go?

• Posted by Josephine Green April 26, 2013 #  #night out  #fear  #Being out  1,311 views
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  I recently had a lovely weekend up in Manchester. A big thank you to the friend who put up with me. My main aim of the weekend was to welcome home a TV who had just completed a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Nearly six months of not shaving her legs, no dressing and no checking out new outfits.
  
  As I was in Manchester I wanted to take the opportunity to go shopping as I haven't been shopping there for years. Well we weren't that early, getting into town in time for coffee! I needed to pick up a camera from Curry's. Then onto TKMax and Primark. Nothing I really liked but did get some new stockings and a pair of emergency flats. Time for a late sandwich at Via's then home for a quick change and back to town to meet my other friends.
  
  Meal at Via's and then did the hostelries in the village, including Icon, Molly's House and Churchill's. We finally ended up in New York - New York where we met and ended the night chatting to a hen party which had run out of steam. Taxi home at 3 and asleep by 4.
  
  As you can see it was a great time which I thoroughly enjoyed and I think the others did as well.
  
  Now the reason for this blog. On returning I was on another chat room with my friends and mentioned where I'd been and that I'd had a great time. I then got private messages saying don't say where you've been or even who you were with as there may be lurkers! The other site is not a transgender site but does have a lot of us on it. I had thought that my friends were 'out' having been posting about nights out for some time. But and it's a big but they don't say where or when as they are scared of something.
  
  When out during the day nothing happened, most people don't really care and only see what they want. In the evening the Village is safe (apart from the occasional drunk but that's less than it was). So why the paranoia? Can someone explain please.