What an inspiring video! I really hope that the young women who see it will get out there and get built. It might give them the confidence to fight back. Guys like this cannot be allowed to get away with this behavior. I am definitely sending this to my daughter.
Male aggression will end when *we* decide it ends, not when men 'decide' to stop hurting others. There may be a related story about some airline passengers bringing down a threatening person - nothing to do with women, but still, people banding together against a common threat. We need more of this.
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: I was attacked late at night on a street near my college dorm. The guy was not too big. I was skinny; he could still have overpowered me. But I screamed like crazy. I didn’t freeze. He ran away rather than deal with my resistance. I would not have been able to fight off the guy in the video.
Here’s my daughter’s story: she went to a guy’s apartment after a date. He kept trying to force himself on her. His sister was sleeping in the next room. She could have screamed and woke her up. Instead, she froze. She was raped.
I wish I had known to teach her about these things; it never occurred to me. She is a lot older now and regrets letting this guy have his way. I wonder how many other women he has raped in the last 12 years.
We all have to take the initiative to stop this traumatizing violence. And that includes pressing charges against these guys even if a conviction is unlikely. I wish my daughter had told me about this when it happened. I would have made her report it. Instead, she just felt ashamed and blamed herself.
We have to take a leaf from Cher’s book and just “Snap out of it!” Things will only change when we change our mindset.
I couldn't have fought off that guy either, which is why I now pack hairspray in my pocket, and I added that gator bottle opener recently to my keychain to make it a little more of a weapon.
We've *got* to learn to fight back. You didn't know what you didn't know, Stephanie. My mother didn't tell me things she might have, but it probably never occurred to her. Hopefully your daughter will teach her daughter what you *do* know now, and she'll probably miss some thing she can't know.
Thanks for weighing in with two illustrative stories.
What an inspiring video! I really hope that the young women who see it will get out there and get built. It might give them the confidence to fight back. Guys like this cannot be allowed to get away with this behavior. I am definitely sending this to my daughter.
Male aggression will end when *we* decide it ends, not when men 'decide' to stop hurting others. There may be a related story about some airline passengers bringing down a threatening person - nothing to do with women, but still, people banding together against a common threat. We need more of this.
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: I was attacked late at night on a street near my college dorm. The guy was not too big. I was skinny; he could still have overpowered me. But I screamed like crazy. I didn’t freeze. He ran away rather than deal with my resistance. I would not have been able to fight off the guy in the video.
Here’s my daughter’s story: she went to a guy’s apartment after a date. He kept trying to force himself on her. His sister was sleeping in the next room. She could have screamed and woke her up. Instead, she froze. She was raped.
I wish I had known to teach her about these things; it never occurred to me. She is a lot older now and regrets letting this guy have his way. I wonder how many other women he has raped in the last 12 years.
We all have to take the initiative to stop this traumatizing violence. And that includes pressing charges against these guys even if a conviction is unlikely. I wish my daughter had told me about this when it happened. I would have made her report it. Instead, she just felt ashamed and blamed herself.
We have to take a leaf from Cher’s book and just “Snap out of it!” Things will only change when we change our mindset.
I couldn't have fought off that guy either, which is why I now pack hairspray in my pocket, and I added that gator bottle opener recently to my keychain to make it a little more of a weapon.
We've *got* to learn to fight back. You didn't know what you didn't know, Stephanie. My mother didn't tell me things she might have, but it probably never occurred to her. Hopefully your daughter will teach her daughter what you *do* know now, and she'll probably miss some thing she can't know.
Thanks for weighing in with two illustrative stories.