Wife Scared Co-Worker with Spyderco

Good question Hugh.
Sometimes I like to compare the current anti-self-defense people with those who advised women not to fight back in the seventies. The detractors said that women couldn't compete with men's superior strength.
In a boxing match, they wouldn't have much of a chance, but S-D is about survival, not a sporting matchup.

Gradually, due to martial artists and some feminists, it is widely accepted that women can do a lot to be safe--both in prevention, deterrence, and if necessary, in physical combat. A predator who would pick a woman to victimize can be surprised when the "prey" bites back. There is nothing "sporting" about launching an aggressive counterattack!

Those who are against S-D, and especially armed S-D, generally don't seem to be familiar with the concept of S-D: they tend to think in terms of fighting ineffectively and having a weapon grabbed away, etc., the criminal having "all the advantages."

It would be interesting to compare anti-S-D men with pro-S-D men to see which group was more supportive of women's right to self-protection.

On one side, the "pro" men are supposed to be more "right wing, traditional" types who would be more likely "male chauvanists."

The "anti" men would be more "equality" oriented. So-called "liberals" would probably say these guys would "know what's better" for the gals than the "other" side.

I would hazard a guess that either there would be little difference, or the support for women truly having an "equal right to survive" would be greater amongst the "pro-self-defense" guys.

As for your wife, Hugh, would she cotton to something nice and "feminine," like a pastel color Matriarch? I bet she'd think it was cute! Inlay a long lasting metal emory board on one side of the handle and I think it might catch on. How much more "feminine" can a knife name be?

MATRIARCH! Kind of a leadership type name. Quite "take no one's crap" feminist, too, if ya ask me.

Karl

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"Celebrate the diversity of inclusive, self-esteem nurturing, multicultural weapons arts." Karl Spaulding, The Safety Guy
 
No, she wouldn't. She has become a very pacifistic Quaker, unlike me. I am not at all certain just how I would react if a predator, two or four legged, came at me or mine, and I was prepared to defend them. As you all do know, I have defended myself in the past, before I became a Quaker, and I have continued to carry a folder. I carry a Gunting as it works for me as a 3" utility knife. I am not about to train to use it as a martial arts system, since I have very bad arthritis, but that would not stop me from using it in self defense if I had to do so.

The real question is what would I do in coming to the aid of someone whom I don't know? That would depend, I think, upon a number of unforseeable circumstances.

Oh, and BTW, I tend toward the liberal on many things. I am a strong supporter of women's rights and of other such things that I don't wish to get into in THIS forum. If you wish to find out about them, go search my username in the Political Forum and you'll get an eyeful. I've debated, I think, nearly everyone here at one time or another.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh Fuller

[This message has been edited by FullerH (edited 04-03-2001).]
 
I think when it comes to men being afraid of a woman who carries a knife, it is that tired old "Lorena Bobbitt" phobia. They might think, "Geez, she could cut my (you-know-what) off with that thing."

I'm amazed that almost nobody seemed to notice a few years ago, in the movie Titanic, they were screaming out for anyone with a knife, and lives were saved by guys pulling out their jackknives and cutting the tangled ropes holding the life boats. I even remember them opening their pocketknives with their teeth (probably due to its supposedly being so cold). But I guess all the girls in the audience were ooo-ing and ahhh-ing over DeCaprio, and the guys were probably just noticing the special effects.
Jim
 
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