Women and Knives: Why More Women Need To Carry A Blade

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Blade Girl said:
Here is a video I just made about an hour ago about knives and edc.. (got my hair cut and fixed today too..woohoo! Thanks God! I have an interview Tuesday with the producer of Wendy Williams show..so it was last minute! They are starting a show that is like Jesse Ventura..they are interviewing me for the part of a Christian Conspiracy Theorist, just like Ventura, but with a prophecy twist...I would get to fly all over the world and go places and interview people for the show..it would air all over regular tv, everywhere... Would be awesome! Keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer for me that the interview goes well!) Anyways, back on topic, i have included discussion and photos of ancient knives..in fact, one they just discovered in the USA that is thousands of years old. I think you will all love this short video I did! I had BF in mind as well as EDCF forums. I hope you like it! It's about knives, edc and preparedness..because people don't think ahead. They get stuck somewhere and have nothing at all to help them out of their situation or to survive. We see this all the time. I hope you like it, Catherine. Blessings to you!
[video=youtube;MaW8Hgmlr1o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaW8Hgmlr1o[/video]
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Woo hoo on your news. Cool!

I will say a prayer for you too.

I will watch your video later on too. My husband just got home from his 24/7 hectic job and we are going to watch our dvd set of Longmire. I am retired but he is not retired yet.

Let us know about the show. It sounds interesting. I do not subscribe to cable or dish television reception but I do have cable for our ISP - computer in this college town. I have OTA television reception. Since I built this house in town - I can get reception - luck of the draw. There are many places IN town not just way UP in the mountains butt up to wilderness (Where I lived for a year after moving out west.) where there is NO OTA tv reception.

You can barely get ANY radio reception unless you have or had an XM radio or some type of a BIG antenna set up in the mountains where I used to live in MT. My old shortwave portable radio did not work up there either. I had NO big antenna in the Sapphire Mountains. It worked in my former Great Lakes state in the boonies with my late husband with NO big antenna and it worked on the east coast where I was born and raised. We used to travel with that old radio of mine too.

Best wishes to you and thanks for the news and link.

Later...

Cate

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Blade Girl said:
Thank you Serious Bladeno...I appreciate your 'kind' words :-) I love knives just as much as every man/woman who browses this forum who is a 'serious' knife collector. I share the same appetite for new knives and literally oooh and ahhh and drool over knife pics like many of you I'm sure do. And, that is why I came here...to share the love and passion for knives and to learn more from other people who post here. Thanks again and your thoughts were very kind. :-)
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Dear BladeGirl

Thank you for your kind reply.I have seen your nice and very comprehensive video on the topic of EDC etc....All i must say is, you are very much talented and nice woman,you do have a natural gift of talk and highly professional expression on camera much needed in this sort of video guided commentary.I am sure,all other members who have seen your video will agree and most certainly female part of contribution to this topic is much needed, because i do believe in fact,woman and man are different and together only,they can create perfection-filling each other's gaps and weaknesses...Woman will always be better in some sort of skills, that is not a man's domain and man will be better in skills,that are not domain of woman....But,bond between man and woman makes things really perfect and together,they will achieve always more.So i believe, since most of this topic is usually covered by men,there is a lot to be described and covered by female point of view and that is gap out there still very much missing...So my advice to you is keep it up BladeGirl, keep your additions coming, you are on very good track in what you do and i hope,more women will gona follow your steps too...Also i think,it is more friendly for woman to get some advice from other woman in this field of interest....

Keep it up BladeGirl,excellent work!
 
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BladeGirl, pretty good video. Better than I could ever do. I watched the first 10 minutes or so (it's long), and will likely go back to it and finish it. Good luck with your interview. Better take that zero gravity pen and Boker neck knife with ya. Ya just never know. :D You seem to be having fun with this stuff. Have used the waterproof paper field books for many years.
 
Interesting thing, women and ancient knives. As was said way early in the thread women may have carried knives more in the caveman days with men tending a bit more to hand axes and spears.

In "Dances With Wolves" all the Indian women seemed to have a belt knife (for whatever that's worth).

Women just may have used a knife as a tool way more than men throughout history.

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In the stone age women trapped and hunted small game. At least before they invented agriculture.
 
22-rimfire said:
BladeGirl, pretty good video. Better than I could ever do. I watched the first 10 minutes or so (it's long), and will likely go back to it and finish it. Good luck with your interview. Better take that zero gravity pen and Boker neck knife with ya. Ya just never know. :D You seem to be having fun with this stuff. Have used the waterproof paper field books for many years.
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It's not really that long... :-) But I made it specifically to post here and on the other forum I am part of :-) To help people and share my love for knives and EDC. Thanks for commenting and for watching
 
so edc = man jewelry

Of course women used tools 16,000 years ago, everyone pitched into the groups survival. Although I'd be hesitant to quantify this as pre-Clovis, at least until they get peer review and consensus, but not hard to belive they were here just a few thousand years earlier. The Pleistocene was a tough life for us humans.
 
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davek14 said:
Interesting thing, women and ancient knives. As was said way early in the thread women may have carried knives more in the caveman days with men tending a bit more to hand axes and spears.

In "Dances With Wolves" all the Indian women seemed to have a belt knife (for whatever that's worth).

Women just may have used a knife as a tool way more than men throughout history.

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In the stone age women trapped and hunted small game. At least before they invented agriculture.
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Ha! Very true... (the HA is about your Ecard) Thanks!
 
Seriousbladeno1 said:
Dear BladeGirl

Thank you for your kind reply.I have seen your nice and very comprehensive video on the topic of EDC etc....All i must say is, you are very much talented and nice woman,you do have a natural gift of talk and highly prodessional expression on camera much needed in this sort of video guided commentary.I am sure,all other members who have seen your video will agree and most certainly female part of contribution to this topic is much needed, because i do believe in fact,woman and man are different and together only,they can create perfection-filling each other's gaps and weaknesses...Woman will always be better in some sort of skills, that is not a man's domain and man will be better in skills,that are not domain of woman....But,bond between man and woman makes things really perfect and together,they will achieve always more.So i believe, since most of this topic is usually covered by men,there is a lot to be described and covered by female point of view and that is gap out there still very much missing...So my advice to you is keep it up BladeGirl, keep your additions coming, you are on very good track in what you do and i hope,more women will gona follow your steps too...Also i think,it is more friendly for woman to get some advice from other woman in this field of interest....

Keep it up BladeGirl,excellent work!
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Thanks I appreciate your thoughts and feedback :thumbup:
 
On topic... my lovely wife carries a knife every day. Sometimes just a SAK and sometimes a fixed blade. Last year she got a beautiful puukko for her birthday. Knives are tools and my wife is always prepared. My daughter daily carries an ESEE-3 in her purse. I liked your video and the new haircut looked great.
 
ISP 5353 said:
On topic... my lovely wife carries a knife every day. Sometimes just a SAK and sometimes a fixed blade. Last year she got a beautiful puukko for her birthday. Knives are tools and my wife is always prepared. My daughter daily carries an ESEE-3 in her purse. I liked your video and the new haircut looked great.
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Hey thanks! Good to hear your wife is so into it as well..she sounds like a very cool lady! And, your daughter..wow..that's awesome! How old is your daughter???
 
B34NS said:
so edc = man jewelry

of course women used tools 16,000 years ago. Just as they do now. Although I'd be hesitant to quantify this as pre-Clovis, at least until they get peer review and consensus, but not hard to belive they were here just a few thousand years earlier. The Pleistocene was a tough life for us humans.
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Blade Girl said:
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Was trying to find a photo, these are younger, about 3,100 BC, but all knapped from one piece of flint. Crazy that in only a few thousand years that we went from that scraper found in oregon to these a few thousand years later. Certainly some of the first knife patterns as we know them today, we don't give our own species enough credit sometimes.

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B34NS said:
Was trying to find a photo, these are younger, about 3,300 BC, but all knapped from one piece of flint. Crazy that in only a few thousand years that we went from that scraper found in oregon to these a few thousand years later. Certainly some of the first knife patterns as we know them today, we don't give our own species enough credit sometimes.

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I very much so believe in ancient technology and surprisingly, that they were far more advanced than we care to realize, or that we even are today. I study that stuff and research it deeply. AND...many people also don't realize, as one commentator stated above, that women did indeed use knives...such as the Indians and so forth.... As society became more and more civilized, women took on this new image as the quiet, sit in the corner and shut up homemaker who did nothing but serve and keep a clean house when they actually did so much more than that in times past. Now, i am not feminist by any stretch..but I certainly don't believe a woman is no more than a servant who sits in a corner and keeps her mouth shut. I am sure there are many men who would dream of such a thing..LOL...but...I am very bold and outspoken, humble at the same time...yet, that would be a hard thing for me. I probably would not survive in cultures where this still goes on..they'd have to take me out to the pasture and shoot me..ha ha ha ha! Needless to say, I would stay in trouble.
 
Definitely man jewelry

 
Charlie Mike said:
Definitely man jewelry

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Hmmm, Charlie Mike..I can see a woman carrying that. It is an excellent knife.. maybe too busy for my taste, but....does look like a real piece of art... I can see where many people, including women, would love to have a knife like yours :-)
 
Blade Girl said:
Hmmm, Charlie Mike..I can see a woman carrying that. It is an excellent knife.. maybe too busy for my taste, but....does look like a real piece of art... I can see where many people, including women, would love to have a knife like yours :-)
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It cost me $2200. I used and carried it every day for 5 months. Sold it at about a $900 loss.
 
That my friend is something I do not understand whether it be guns, jewelry, or knives. I acquire stuff and keep it. It is a common comment here for people to buy a knife and sell it within a short time after handling it and then they do it again. It is a loosing game and I don't like loosing. On the other hand, the opposite is to keep accumulating knives, guns, or jewelry that you have no present interest in using. Don't know which is the better route, but I guess I have made my choice. Generally I simply won't play if I don't intend to keep something long term unless the item is purchased mostly for resale due to getting a good price. I used to do that with firearms periodically (handle them, often shoot them a bit, and then sell them). It was fun. But I didn't make any money.
 
I can't keep money tied up in something I no longer use/carry. Each knife helps me refine my parameters of the IDEAL knife, so maybe that's worth it to me.
 
For some reason, many women seem unwilling or unable to carry basic tools that are useful. My wife, who is very competent in many ways, never has a pen or a knife but is constantly interrupting me to bring her one. I have given her Swiss Army Knives with scissors and other useful tools, but she never carries them - just as she asks me for the time when she could wear a watch. :confused:
 
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