As for wearing heels, I tend not to wear them. They’re just uncomfortable. I do find myself putting my keys in between my knuckles if I’m out late at night (alone or with others). I also go through my head to prepare myself what to do if a situation gets physical, and I find myself very aware of my surroundings. Finally, when I feel I’m being just a bit more paranoid than I might need to be, I remind myself of the statistics: Men are statistically more likely to be victims of violent crime; the vast majority of rape victims were not raped by random attackers, but in fact knew their victims, often intimately.
That, of course, brings us back full circle to the beginning, where we must address that this is part of a culture in which women are forced to live, and they consistently have this fear that you realized, without having a tangible reason for it. It is not only that we need to address these crimes and demand their cessation, but we need to address the very ideas that are the fabric of our society.
tl;dr: rape is bad, and so is blaming the victim. If you know someone is saying/doing something wrong, deal with it LIKE AN ADULT and don’t let them get away with it.

If I’m out at night, I’ll try to avoid sketchy areas or sketchy-seeming people. I’ll also try to avoid drawing attention to myself by not making eye contact or yelling loudly. Sometimes I’ll let someone (probably Michelle) know where I’m going or stay on the phone with them until I’m home.  If I’m robbed, I doubt anyone will tell me I was asking for it, but they might tell me I shouldn’t have been out in that sketchy area alone at night.

In my experience, I was taught that killing/robbing people is bad just as much as I was taught how to avoid being killed/robbed. From what I can remember, though, most of those lessons were taught when I was a lot younger. Perhaps a big difference is that “don’t rape people” is a lot harder to explain to a kid than “don’t kill people” is? This could be a major issue if rape culture actually comes from morals we learn as children.

Of course, there are plenty of differences. For example, I never worry about being robbed by people I know – only people I don’t know.

It used to happen in the USA:

http://www.noharmm.org/CircintheFemale.htm
Circumcision in the Female: Its Necessity and How to Perform It
Benjamin E. Dawson, A.M., M.D. – Kansas City, Missouri
President, Eclectic Medical University
American Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 22, no. 6, p. 520-523, June 1915

http://www.noharmm.org/femcirctech.htmF
emale Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique
W.G. Rathmann, M.D. GP, vol. XX, no. 3, pp 115-120 , September, 1959

http://www.noharmm.org/circumfemale.htm
Circumcision of the Female
C.F. McDonald, M.D. – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
GP, Vol. XVIII No. 3, p. 98-99, September, 1958
(“If the male needs circumcision for cleanliness and hygiene, why not the female?”)

More recently, the AAP’s Bioethics committee changed its policy on female cutting in 2010 saying “It might be more effective if federal and state laws enabled pediatricians to reach out to families by offering a ritual [clitoral] nick as a possible compromise to avoid greater harm.”
They were forced to retract this about six weeks later:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/722840
Dr Diekema, the chair of the committee said “We’re talking about something far less extensive than the removal of foreskin in a male”.

Why would the procedure in this link be illegal in most western countries:

http://aandes.blogspot.com/2010/04/circumcision.html

yet this is legal:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6584757516627632617