&gt; For me, it&#x27;s a safety issue. I&#x27;m pretty certain that I&#x27;m going to be able to handle 99.99% of encounters with roadside females (or elderly). I&#x27;ve gotten into an altercation with a roadside male I stopped to help in high school (who was likely high when he ran his car off the road).<p>Well, the question is: Do you decide based on physical strength&#x2F;behaviour of the individual or based on gender? Sexism is when you ignore the individual&#x27;s characteristics and instead decide how to interact with them based on some supposed characteristic of the gender that they belong to. If you simply decide based on how strong or high the individual is (or appears to be), independently of their gender, and that then happens to correlate with their gender, that&#x27;s not sexism--if you avoid helping a male despite them appearing completely non-threatening&#x2F;-intimidating&#x2F;whatever (and that&#x27;s how I understood what you wrote--after all, there is nothing &quot;old school&quot; about avoiding situations that seem risky, is there?), then that is sexism.