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⌈ Secret Post #2871 ⌋

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Re: Terrible advice thread

[ariakas]

We got a few months with a couple of hours a week, in gym class. We were gender segregated for it, as we were for gymnastics and whatnot. Not sure what the boys did at the time, but I could ask. Soccer or football probably. Which is sexist when you think about it, I suppose. I'm sure they'd like to know how to react when attacked and even more like to be attacked, but you, know REAL MEN SHOULD ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DEFEND THEMSELVES!! and RAPE PANIC!!! and all that.

They actually had grown men come in for us to practice on and get used to being held/grabbed/pinned by someone that much larger and stronger than us and realize there were only so many things we could do. We weren't allowed to hurt them, obviously.

But under a high stress situation, how much does a couple of months in middle school get retained? Well one of the girls attacked was in my broader circle of friends, and when a man grabbed her from behind on a jogging trail near the high school a few years later, she broke his instep, fled, and called the cops. He was still limping through the woods when they got there. She said she reacted that way instantly, because it was her only frame of reference for being violently grabbed from behind; i.e. it was the only thing she knew how to do. These aren't complicated fighting forms, right.

I know I've mentioned it on here before, but the one time someone tried to mug me and I reacted with my football training, no less, to fake, spin, and run away with a huge headstart, well, I last played that when I was a child, even before middle school. The body seems to remember better than the mind does.