Yeah, it is tough. It's tough to feel vulnerable and unsafe while going about routine matters. It's tough having your passage blocked by some creep with a grocery cart licking his lips and looking you up and down. It's tough hearing the same shit over and over.
I understand your point regarding offering solutions, and that's fine, if that's what you wish to do. However, I'm at an age where I do what I want and write what I want. The article stands as it was intended, and you're smart enough to know that. You're simply throwing in a red herring, i.e. "gee, why not offer solutions" to make some sort of point, or rather, to obscure the point you know full well I'm making.