Researchers discovered that women who'd rough-housed as kids were more effective in defending themselves as adults. And they said to encourage girls to wrestle and fight with their brothers or boys generally from a young age, to accustom them to being hurt and delivering pain
Same researchers went on to say that girls are afraid to hurt others, which disadvantages them in situations where they're called upon to defend themselves. And there are males who're the same
The girl in this video should have been left alone to pulp the bully. She was a foot shorter and who knows how much lighter in addition to being hampered by the counter. But she laid in from the word go and was able to maintain the rage necessary to do the job
It's Youtube. 55 seconds approx.
VIDEOThis is the sort of fightback women/girls could throw at attackers if they were shown how and encouraged to hurt anyone who puts a wrong hand on them
There are women/girls in this country who're prepared to get stuck in, but as a rule, they're from 'rougher' areas. And they're looked down upon for '
acting like men'. So decipher that message and decide whom it advantages, because girls decipher it to mean that nice girls don't fight, they don't make a fuss or a noise -- girls, in order to be regarded as 'feminine' should be compliant
Most women freeze. They go into shock. They're terrified. They can't believe it's happening. And they think that if they fight back, the situation will become worse. They don't want to 'anger' the attacker. Women are scared generally to
make men angry, as if angry males are their fault. They don't understand that their attacker is already angry. He's ahead of the game and ramps up his anger/misogyny in order to subdue the victim
It would be great if women/girls were able to live their lives without putting themselves in harm's way, but anywhere can be the wrong place. People have to use public transport. They have to use carparks. They have to enter buildings and cross roads and pathways to get to those buildings. Even when inside their own home, they're still at risk. They're at risk going for a walk in the middle of the day in safe locations. They're at risk in their home's backyard or courtyard or balcony and at the gym and in shopping centres
There are predators out there, lots of them. Common wisdom says don't carry a knife 'because it can be used against you'. Can't have guns. Can't have sprays. And now they say don't believe that carrying keys between the fingers will help because it's more likely to break your own fingers
What's left? Rocks? Baseball bats? Umbrellas? Hat pins? Personal alarms?
Maybe better to learn killer jabs that paralyse and kill and learn and rehearse how to deliver a frontal or rear headbutt, but first the woman/girl has to be prepared to really hurt their attacker -- that's the key. My father was expelled for delivering the only retaliation left to him when a bigger guy had him pinned to the ground and was throttling the life out of him. In desperation, my father finally managed to get a hand free. He jabbed his fingers into the other guy's eyes and didn't let-up on the pressure. He said when the masters tore them apart, he could barely breathe or swallow and the bigger guy's eyes were hanging down on his cheeks like raw eggs. Women need to learn to release a similar warrior-self and be like the girl in the above fast-food video -- and we should all be encouraging that