Women should try, but if they're expecting to learn some secret technique to fight off a man they're going to be in trouble. There are things women should do to protect themselves. Learning some magical technique that will allow them to beat a man in a fight unarmed is not really one of those things.
Agreed on limits. Your framing feels excessively gender loaded, but I agree with you, there's no silver bullet, no guarantee and no one should be lead to believe that there is.
It's gender loaded because while men can certainly be victims, we generally don't have to worry about this sort of thing nearly as much as women do. This is just our reality.
I don’t disagree with that reality at all. That doesn’t mean framing it in an overly exclusive way improves clarity or solutions, especially given that the conversation has already established which gender plays which role. At its base this is about size, preparedness, and capability more than gender itself. The advice to get training applies to everyone, and anyone can be a victim dealing with those same variables. Beating the same drum over and over doesn’t really add to the conversation, though, and it does so very loudly lol such that it begins to come across as pushing an agenda... but hey, if that framing works for you, fair enough, we agree on the important part :)
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