Bhagat ji

DMZ is code for demilitarized zone. Usually constructed when armed conflict reaches an impasse and belligerents agree to the creation of a zone or corridor of land that separates the armed forces. This is a tense place because although no overt armed conflict is occurring there, conflict could break out at any time. Just one person has to cross the line so to speak -- and shots are fired, the agreement becomes void, the zone is breached, and both parties are in conflict again. Between North and South Korea there is a DMZ -- also there have been other DMZ's in history.
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You can imagine the tension the case of nerves that builds up in such a scenario.

Now the term DMZ is used as a metaphor in other nonmilitary contexts-- mostly to represent the high level of tension that a person experiences who finds herself trapped by the constant possibility of conflict and who is always in a state of anticipation that the quiet will suddenly erupt into madness. All it takes is one false step, one word, one look, and ..... So what I am saying is these young women seem to me to be living in a continual state of tension, nerves, anxiety, fear, that no matter what they say or do will turn out to be the wrong thing in the opinion of someone. And nothing will turn out to be the right thing for them. Just my opinion from what I have been reading in this thread.

The safest thing to do in such circumstances is to be passive, to comply, to avoid making independent choices. If you do nothing you can't make a mistake, can you? Of course then you would also be giving up on yourself...which is bound to make you very very angry.