A timely discussion for V-Day/One Billion Rising. Ending violence
Against Women and Girls Everywhere.* There is a lengthy thread in GD about a video of a woman in an elevator defending herself when the male passenger assaulted her. Sadly, dishearteningly, there were comments about the woman daring to use "excessive force" in her own protection.
There were also a number of comments debating, not the action, but whether it was ai slop or staged, not real. What was so disappointing to me was that, staged or not, the whole point of the video was to show women how they might react in a similar situation to defend themselves. One would THINK, especially with the rapists and assaulters and woman-haters actually in charge of our government, that such instruction would be a good thing. It was truly discouragjng.
*One Billion Rising references the fact that ONE IN THREE FEMALES worldwide (world pop. some seven billion, half female) will experience sexual assault/violence. ONE IN THREE!!! Every two minutes, in this country, a female is assaulted. EVERY TWO minutes!! And yet, that reality is irrelevant to some. As I said, very discouraging.
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