How is asking if someone has a girlfriend or a wife in anyway anything to do with feeling safer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bernardo
married.
If someone is a real preditor and good at it, he will give you the answers you want to hear. It is inaccruate and horrible sterotyping if you assume that the single or even the socially awkward are less safe. You sound like one of those university girls who think they will get raped by a creepy looking guy who jumps out of the bushes at them but the cute jock in 1st year Calculus would never ever get violent because hot dudes are automatically nice.
I don't like it because it reminds me of my failures as a male and a human being.
I find it funny at times at the strip club. Girl sometimes asks if I have a girlfriend and seem all shocked that I don't. Or they derp on and on about how funny I am [true] and how nice I am [true] or even attractive [er no] yet once they get their money I am stuck sitting by myself and go home by myself. If I am so awesome why is that.
Or even better. I notice this one girl who pretends to like me, remembers details the works but once I get the dances I never see her again that night. I do see her sitting with other customers [who are not outside friends, you can tell] for extended periods of time both before and after she gets a dance from them. But yeah, please go on about how wonderful and attractive I am.
A brah has to reflect on this. However that is another issue, rather fresh as I was at the annuity bar this weekend.