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Edition 83: Women's Self-Defense with Adelaide Meadow, Serendipity Day & Sekhmet SheOwl

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Self-Defense, Female Separatism and Female Tribalism Are Core Tenets of My Feminism

Without self-defense, female separatism and female tribalism, women and girls are constantly vulnerable to all forms of male violence. We can't predict or control what males around us will do; we can never eliminate our chance of experiencing male violence altogether as long as we live around them. What we can do is learn how to defend ourselves in the event we encounter male violence and avoid giving males unsupervised private access to us. If you love, value and respect yourself, you will feel entitled to defend and protect your body and mind at all costs. That's how our own fight-or-flight response developed over millions of years. Every other animal in nature instinctively defends itself when attacked

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Without self-defense, female separatism and female tribalism, women and girls are constantly vulnerable to all forms of male violence, which keeps us afraid and cooperative with males. They know that's how it works. It's the reason so many of them aggressively discourage women from developing physical strength through weightlifting, from living a separatist lifestyle, or from simply putting other women first and above men even as non-septists. Were women and girls put up with even half the non-violent misogyny and sexism men display if male violence didn't exist? I would bet the answer is no. This has always been how males keep society-wide control of women and girls. Without the male biological advantage present, without male violence at play, patriarchy will be far easier to destroy, women like they would have done in a long time ago in that case. If we can't end male power or eliminate male misogyny and violence, then we can only choose whether to minimize or maximize our vulnerability to them. We can't predict or control what males around us will do, and we can never eliminate our chance of experiencing male violence altogether as long as we live around them. What we can do is learn how to defend ourselves in the event we encounter male violence and avoid giving males unsupervised private access to us. If you love, value and respect yourself, you will feel entitled to defend and protect your body and mind at all costs. Women who love, value and respect themselves in their own lives have zero tolerance for male abuse and male violence and take whatever actions they can take to minimize their risk of experiencing it. If and when they take risks with men, they're calculated risks. They enter risky situations fully prepared to deal with the worst case scenario, not in denial of its possibility. Every other animal in nature instinctively defends itself when attacked, or if it can't, then the animal tries to escape. That's how our own fight-or-flight response developed over millions of years. When I say that self-defense and separatism are core tenets of my feminism and of radical feminism in general, really all I'm talking about is a conscious expression of fight-or-flight.

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