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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I also teach some self defense seminars. Contrary to popular belief, 90 percent of self defense is not getting in the situation. Be proactive. Pay attention to your surroundings. Don't go to the wrong bars. Don't go into that dark parking lot alone. Don't walk down an empty street in a bad section of town at night. Don't be the teenager in the slasher movie. .
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If you're teaching women's self defence, or children's, you're (a) ignorant and (b) doing it wrong. Stranger attacks in public are nowhere near "90%". They're not even the majority.
As far as children and bullying goes? Blaming kids for being easy marks, and telling them to change their behaviour? Do you instruct disabled kids to stop acting disabled, non-neurotypical kids to stop acting non-neurotypical, non-white kids to act more white, Muslim kids to act more Christian, LGBTQ kids to go back in the closet? Because bigotry is a huge part of schoolyard bullying.
I'm a huge fan of karate and come from a martial arts background and family, but I'm side-eyeing the hell out of your attitude. Karate is technique, about self-management, about resilience, about being fit enough to run away from a situation if you can, or to defend yourself if you're cornered and have no other way out. It's not about telling yourself to never have hurt feelings and to interiorise blame for the terrible actions of others.