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@locksmithprime @rupert @WhiteCatTamer @JohnSullivan @realtegan when did turning into a retaliatory bully stop bullying?
Teaching women self defense is only ever a plaster/band-aid over a problem. Helpful for some. It doesn't stop many men.
Only reworking society does that, & men (+ some women, but mainly men bc those assholes don't give a shit what women say to them abt their behaviour) have the power to do that.
Spend more time telling men how to do better & less telling women how to respond
@noodlemaz @rupert @WhiteCatTamer @JohnSullivan @realtegan
I am not telling how to respond, but I advocate for teaching and giving them tools. Men have been told how to do better for millennia. Where has that gotten us? Where has that gotten us?
I would never teach my daughters to attempt to stop a bully or attacker with messages of love and compassion. Call an adult? "I'm gonna tell?" "I promise I won't tell?" "Please you don't have to do that?" No. First stop them by breaking their bones. THEN you can debate with them. If they choose not do use the tools, then I accept, but I will not be remiss in not showing them they can be more effective in protecting themselves with something else than words.
Words work with idiots like me, because I work to evolve out of my manly shell of ignorance and lack of vision. I always rather resort to intelligence. If those men who say "your body, my choice" had any modicum of intelligence in them? If bullies had any sense or ears in them?
@noodlemaz @rupert @WhiteCatTamer @JohnSullivan @realtegan
I am not telling how to respond, but I advocate for teaching and giving them tools. Men have been told how to do better for millennia. Where has that gotten us? Where has that gotten us?
I would never teach my daughters to attempt to stop a bully or attacker with messages of love and compassion. Call an adult? "I'm gonna tell?" "I promise I won't tell?" "Please you don't have to do that?" No. First stop them by breaking their bones. THEN...