Miss USA is totally correct. I'm a 57 year old female who was a 2nd degree black belt and competed in the amateurs back in the 80's and 90's and went on to box professionally for a while. To think that you're going to change the mentality of a sexual criminal isn't realistic. Without going into detail, i once took care of business on a NYC subway late one night around 1990 dealing with some dude who liked to show his private parts. Telling that story a few weeks later to some "feminist" type, she actually got pissed at me! That's when i realized there's something wrong with these people. They talk about empowering women and at the same time want you to be a victim! Well i ain't no victim; as my coming to this site should tell you. ALL women should know how to defend themselves and so should all men. You'll walk a little taller and have a certain clarity about you that only someone who knows how to restrain themselves from using their knowledge gets...These so-called feminists are into the victim thing and try to use it to handcuff everyone else with the "you can't say this" and "you can't do that" bull crap. They're worse than a Alanis Morissette song! They're easy to spot in NYC. They dress like they just came from a Gus Hall meeting, they're shaking from being a nervous wreck and never, ever smile...
Having grown up in the 60's, the only reason I can give for my father's reasoning in teaching me, a girl, to shoot, is that I had a VERY progressive thinking parent. We spent many a wonderful afternoon plinking beer and tomato sauce cans perched on wooden fence posts. We went deer, duck and pheasant hunting at every opportunity, and I learned to "bark" a squirrel, although I absolutely hate eating squirrel. I cleaned my own guns, and maintained my own shooting supplies. He was insistent about it. Dad died when I was 15 so I didn't have an opportunity as an adult to ask him why he made sure I was not only used to guns but was not afraid of them at all, in any way. I do, though, remember one hunting trip when I was about 12 when he was defending his decision to bring me along to the other guys. After hearing several moaning about having a "gu-r-r-r-l-l" along on what they had thought to be a stag hunting party, Dad said, quite clearly, I could out shoot all of them, and besides, he was fairly sure no guy in his right mind would mess with me, once I was on my own. My husband and I sold martial arts supplies and equipment in our own business in the 80's. One day a trio of girls came into the shop and were looking through the displays. I was demonstrating how a specialized self defense key chain was used, held in the hand with two heavy steel rods protruding between the fingers and aimed towards the attacker, whether towards the eyes, throat or upwards into the groin, when one of the girls commented, "But I could never do that! It isn't ladylike!" I responded incredulously, "And getting raped is?" At that moment the apparent differences between our two upbringings was driven home with a vengeance. A girl should be trained to use WHAT EVER SHE HAS ON HAND OR CAN GET HER HANDS ON AS A WEAPON because I can guarantee, rape is not "ladylike", nor is it fun or something a girl invites just by going on a date. Has no one else seen Miss Congeniality, and her performance on stage for her impromptu talent? The tweets above are disheartening and leave me in dread for the current crop of girls being raised to be "ladylike". There is nothing wrong with defending oneself, and "ladylike" doesn't enter into the equation at all. A rapist is not being gentlemanly, so how does this compute? If one is attacked, civility and "ladylike" should go straight out the d*** window!
Women and guns http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob121.html Against a rapist http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/ayoob65.html Armed and female http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/ayoob63.html
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Miss USA is totally correct. I'm a 57 year old female who was a 2nd degree black belt and competed in the amateurs back in the 80's and 90's and went on to box professionally for a while. To think that you're going to change the mentality of a sexual criminal isn't realistic. Without going into detail, i once took care of business on a NYC subway late one night around 1990 dealing with some dude who liked to show his private parts. Telling that story a few weeks later to some "feminist" type, she actually got pissed at me! That's when i realized there's something wrong with these people. They talk about empowering women and at the same time want you to be a victim! Well i ain't no victim; as my coming to this site should tell you. ALL women should know how to defend themselves and so should all men. You'll walk a little taller and have a certain clarity about you that only someone who knows how to restrain themselves from using their knowledge gets...These so-called feminists are into the victim thing and try to use it to handcuff everyone else with the "you can't say this" and "you can't do that" bull crap. They're worse than a Alanis Morissette song! They're easy to spot in NYC. They dress like they just came from a Gus Hall meeting, they're shaking from being a nervous wreck and never, ever smile...
Amen!
Can't think of anything that would wilt some A#%Hole's "stiff idea" quicker than meeting a woman with a gun.
Yeah, Fight Crime---Shoot Back.
You want more gun control? Try using both hands.
Having grown up in the 60's, the only reason I can give for my father's reasoning in teaching me, a girl, to shoot, is that I had a VERY progressive thinking parent. We spent many a wonderful afternoon plinking beer and tomato sauce cans perched on wooden fence posts. We went deer, duck and pheasant hunting at every opportunity, and I learned to "bark" a squirrel, although I absolutely hate eating squirrel. I cleaned my own guns, and maintained my own shooting supplies. He was insistent about it. Dad died when I was 15 so I didn't have an opportunity as an adult to ask him why he made sure I was not only used to guns but was not afraid of them at all, in any way. I do, though, remember one hunting trip when I was about 12 when he was defending his decision to bring me along to the other guys. After hearing several moaning about having a "gu-r-r-r-l-l" along on what they had thought to be a stag hunting party, Dad said, quite clearly, I could out shoot all of them, and besides, he was fairly sure no guy in his right mind would mess with me, once I was on my own.
My husband and I sold martial arts supplies and equipment in our own business in the 80's. One day a trio of girls came into the shop and were looking through the
displays. I was demonstrating how a specialized self defense key chain was used, held in the hand with two heavy steel rods protruding between the fingers and aimed towards the attacker, whether towards the eyes, throat or upwards into the groin,
when one of the girls commented, "But I could never do that! It isn't ladylike!" I responded incredulously, "And getting raped is?"
At that moment the apparent
differences between our two upbringings was driven home with a vengeance. A girl should be trained to use WHAT EVER SHE HAS ON HAND OR CAN GET HER HANDS ON AS A WEAPON because I can guarantee, rape is not "ladylike", nor is it fun or something a girl invites just by going on a date. Has no one else seen Miss Congeniality, and her performance on stage for her impromptu talent?
The tweets above are disheartening and leave me in dread for the current crop of girls being raised to be "ladylike". There is nothing wrong with defending oneself, and "ladylike" doesn't enter into the
equation at all. A rapist is not being gentlemanly, so how does this compute? If one is attacked, civility and "ladylike" should go straight out the d*** window!
Women and guns http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob121.html
Against a rapist http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/ayoob65.html
Armed and female http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/ayoob63.html
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