He had no problem giving his name to a reporter, and even being photographed. Amber, meanwhile, considered her situation so severe that upon graduation, she moved away from San Diego to escape her stalker. Only her family and a few friends have her current address. It is experiences like Amber's that make Stephen M. Thompson wonder if the authors of the Rutgers study aren't trivializing the experiences of stalking victims. Put simply, women have more reason to be afraid.
Women report out of a primal fear.
I would debate with anybody that it's the same feeling. The inevitable problem with any stalking research is the way the act is defined. In the decade since the first statute was passed in California, all of the other states and the federal government enacted their own stalking laws, with their own quirks and nuances. The results from the national study and the Rutgers research were nonetheless similar in many respects. But without additional research to determine how fearful the subjects were, some critics say it is hard to know whether the male and female respondents in the Rutgers study were talking about the same thing.