RKBA= Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
My thought is that the article is based on false premises.
I'd think that any woman who is interested in existing as anything other than a target of beatings and sex crimes would find the whole thing an exercise in depowering double-speak. Fear is security. Defenselessness is safety. Vulnerability makes you secure. Live that way, and you live in an Orwellian hell hole.
Even if you don't have a weapon, confidence serves a positive purpose. It marks you as a tougher target than the meek, timid little mouse that is scared by everything, but really
aware of nothing but an indistinct fear. Look like you might actually fight back, and you improve your odds of not being the target in the first place.
Remember, sexual criminals
profile you the same way the FBI profiles them. Scared and timid makes you a target, because you are pre-terrorized before they even attack you. Takes less effort on their part to manipulate, dominate and control you once the rape starts. Going through life scared and wary is like painting a red bulls-eye on your forhead, before we even take into account using a weapon.
What you really need is genuine situational awareness, not fear. Fear without cause is just background noise that drowns out the
real signals that your reason and intuition give you that something specific is a threat. Be aware of your surroundings and critically evaluate them. Also, educate yourself about what violent criminals are
really like (as opposed to pop-psych Oprah B.S. we always hear).
Ironically, there is a book called
The Gift of Fear that is very good reading on just this topic. Contrary to its title, it is a book that is more about self- and situational-awarness than anything else. It has little to do with defending yourself and alot to do with not having to defend yourself in the first place. Of course, that sort of thing might strike some people on this forum as a bit soft. But the fact of the matter is, a gun in civilian life is mainly what you use when you
failed to analyze a bad situation before you got into it. Because you can't know everything and be infallible, being armed for those situations is wise. In the meantime, though, it is only sensible to educate yourself - arm your mind - with something other than target-speak.
I'd further suggest that a stripper web site is probably not the best source for information on how to avoid sexual attack. You might as well take advice from the Pinto Owner's Club of America on how to choose a good car.
In fairness, though, not all of her advice is bad. She DOES advocate some basic common sense (e.g. don't take stupid risks), and even says getting a gun is OK (though only under very limited circumstances). The problem with that advice is that it puts the whole purpose of having a weapon on its head, i.e. something you use for those bad situations you
can't predict, control or avoid. However, she holds the ability of women to defend themselves, even with a weapon, in almost complete contempt, which to me suggests contempt for the abilities of women, period. Not a surprising subtext from a stripper, I guess.
