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Self Defense & Safety for Women:
Protecting Yourself from Crime is Important
Paying attention to your personal safety keeps you
beautiful—face and body intact and serene—and
there can be more in your purse than lipstick to
help you fight back if you're attacked by a
mugger. Protecting the purse itself is more a
matter of prevention than anything else. If your
purse is clutched to you rather than dangling from
a strap, you'll be less likely to have someone try
to take it from you.
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If someone does either grab
or demand your purse, give it to him; it's not
worth risking yourself for whatever's in there! If
your purse is large or heavy, you may be able to
belt someone with it if you need to, but if you
hit someone with your purse, don't be a sissy
about it: pack a wallop that will hopefully knock
the guy down and preferably out.
Women are often at risk for street crime and sexual assault on a date, partly
because muggers don't know how strong and fast
women can be, and largely because too many women
don't know it either. If you've ever taken a self
defense class, you've probably been surprised at
just how competently you can defend yourself once
you have some encouragement and little bit of
training. If you haven't ever taken self defense,
try it: even if you never need to use what you
learn, you will gain confidence and strength; two
things would-be bad guys want to avoid in their
victims whenever possible!
Most self defense classes start by teaching
students that screaming loudly and running away is
often the best device in stopping an attack.
Attackers count on the fact that, in the face of
an attack, many people are overcome by a weird
sense of shame, which makes them quiet and
acquiescent. Battered women (and even abused
wives) are the ultimate example of people who are
attacked and respond with shame and self-blame, so
that they don't want anyone to know what's
happening to them. Keeping quiet about being
abused means that the abuse continues until the
woman gains the strength to leave or until her
abuser kills her. On the other hand, women who
report abuse to the police often stop being
victims. On the street among strangers too, people
who run and scream get attention, and very often
get help.
Self-defense trainers often say that teaching
women techniques to kick, grab, punch the
testicles or to claw the eyes of an attacker is
all very well, but when it push comes to shove,
some crime victims freeze and can't use the
aggressive fighting techniques covered in their
programs. Something in the way women are trained
from childhood sometimes prevents us from fighting
back as affectively as we can, even when our
bodies and our lives are at stake. Overcoming the
urge to remain still is a large part of becoming
effective at self defense, and part of the
information female students receive in personal
safety training involves confronting the
conflicting emotions we feel when under attack.
Even if you've had self defense training tips in
courses or seminars, it helps to have added
advantages in the form of self defense products
such as a stun gun or pepper spray key chain
or defense spray pen. Sometimes just knowing you have a useful
weapon in your purse can give you an air of
confidence that warns bad guys away. When you're
walking alone in the dark or going to your car in
an unfamiliar or unsafe place, keeping your hand
on your pepper spray (go here to learn more about pepper spray ingredients) is one good tip for crime
prevention. Even a hardened attacker can't fight
the vicious stinging of a pepper spray, and every
woman, young or old, fragile or strong, can gain
the benefit of time to run away and scream for
help.
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