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I’m sure if you haven’t been living under a rock (which, now that I think about it, isn’t a bad idea these days), you know all about what happened when Miss Nevada/USA said this:
“But I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. Myself, as a fourth-degree black belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself. And I think that’s something that we should start to really implement for a lot of women.”
And that, ladies and gentlemen, did not sit well with the feminazi-twitter set:
I’m sorry, but women shouldn’t need to take self defense classes to protect themselves from rape #MissUSA—
Peter Simon (@PeterSimon12) June 09, 2014
And it got worse and more stupid from there with comments like this all over the internet:
Women shouldn’t need to learn to protect themselves against rape #missnevada educate and respect yourself as a woman #rapeculture
“Educate and respect yourself as a woman”? By NOT defending yourself? Right.
I swear, it’s almost like they KNOW a strong, intelligent, capable woman who can defend herself against bad people has no need of “feminism” or their stupid hashtags and so they attack women who actually do demonstrate self-respect and self-defense to the nth degree. Because nothing makes these smug, wretched, self-hating, and highly confused women of the sisterhood feel more useless than a Miss USA hottie who could kick or shoot the pecker off a rapist. Or Sarah Palin.
(writer correction: I don’t mean shoot the pecker off of Sarah Palin. I meant she and Miss USA are driving the sisterhood crazy. I wouldn’t think of messing with Sarah! LOL)
One thing I haven’t seen, anywhere in this snit fit, is an avowed feminist who HAS been raped stand up and say, “Hell yeah, Miss Nevada! I wish I would have had a gun or taken self-defense classes to fight off the bastard who raped and tortured me!” I guess if there is, she’s waiting until he’s taught not to rape again.
Concerned and perpetually offended “feminists” fret about “teaching” men not to rape, which, of course, translates into government funded programs or classes that I’m pretty sure rapists won’t be signing up for. You might get a few feminist dudes signed up for something called “Rape: Let’s not”, but that’s mainly so they can hook up with concerned “feminists” who will totally dig a guy who wants to learn how not to rape.
A few of my five followers here at this blog know that I have written before about being raped. Violently. With physical and emotional damage. Tortured and left for dead. It was horrible, extreme, frightening beyond any measure, and it hurt. A lot. You can’t imagine unless it happened to you. Unfortunately, the situation was such that I had no weapons with which to defend myself, as I was surprised and overcome by four men. I was utterly at their mercy, of which they had none. Because they were animals. Not teachable men. At one point I tried to get away and I paid for that. I remember wishing, clearly, throughout the entire ordeal, that I had a weapon. All through the long recovery, when I was able to think straight again, I resolved to make myself safer and stronger. While I always had been a shooter and a hunter, I set out to really deeply understand firearms, learn self-defense, and consciously anticipate trouble. This won’t happen to me or anyone I’m close to again. At least while I can pull a trigger.
So, as I read the feminist caterwauling about Miss USA and the outrage at her intelligence, strength, and resolve to not be a victim, I can only surmise most, if not all, of these whimpering women of witlessness have never ever been in a situation where all their twittering philosophy has been crushed by an human-animal not in the least bit interested in their hashtags.
For all their talk of girl power, I’m betting they would be more interested in firepower.
John Kuntz says: God bless you my friend. Truth is truth.
Catherine Wilkinson says: thank you John…love you lots!!!
Jodi says: Thanks, Catherine, for this. And for your strength. Bless you.
Katherine,
My daughter said no, she said don’t, she said stop, he didn’t listen, he was hell bent on having what he came for. She had been home just a few hours from the hospital after major surgery to have her kidney removed, she couldn’t have defended herself if she tried. She knows how to use a gun know though.
My heart goes to you and all rape survivors.
Catherine Wilkinson says: Kelley….xoxoxooxoxoxoxoxo
Jodi Giddings says: Kelley, thank you for sharing, too. God bless. Women like you amaze me every day.
But, but, but they are consistent, don’t you know? They don’t think that you should be allowed to have a firearm to defend yourself or your property from criminals, either.
The mentality of the left ignores reality. They think that by declaring schools to be gun-free zones, no one can, or will, bring a gun into the area, and that’ll stop all school shootings. They think that if you make it illegal to own a firearm, that criminals won’t have firearms. And they think that rape is somehow a product of people not saying that rape is wrong.
Well, the penalties for rape go all the way up to life in prison, and everybody knows that. You rape someone, and you get caught, you’re gong to jail. The left seem to think that, why nobody would ever rape a woman — or a man — if they just knew it was a bad, bad thing, but everybody knows that it’s a bad thing, and everybody knows that it’s against the law, yet rapes still occur.
The left can’t understand it.
GWB says: It’s more than that, Dana. It’s about blaming. They are really concerned about the blame accrued to men in general, so they can achieve power over them. That’s what feminism is ultimately about: power over men. It’s like all the leftist grievance machine – getting power over your “oppressor” so you can get some revenge.
Very well said, Catherine.
When I was a student back in the seventies, I signed up for a course in self-defense for women. The professor who taught it pre-screened every prospective student for the specific purpose of weeding out anyone she considered unsuitable. One question she asked was, “Are you a pacifist?” — because she didn’t want anyone in the class who had a moral objection to killing in self-defense.
One day she had a cop come speak to the class, and I remember him saying that he wished all women would carry handguns so that if a man tried to attack them they could just blow him away. He said that if a woman doesn’t want to carry a gun, she should carry a knife, and use it to off any creep who tried to attack her — and then find a place where the dirt is soft and shove the knife, point first, into the ground far enough that it wouldn’t be found. I was just a teenager at the time and shocked to hear a cop say something like that… but given the choice between taking his advice and espousing some utopian fantasy about teaching sociopaths not to rape, I’ll take the cop’s advice any day of the week.
God bless you, Catherine, for being a voice of sanity.
Catherine Wilkinson says: I loved the 70’s, Lucy. xoxo
GWB says: And *part* of the reason for him saying that is because it 1) reduces his paperwork a great deal if the perp has bled out when he arrives and 2) it prevents his having to arrest them again and again. I’m not saying those are bad reasons, mind you.
GWB says: Catherine, I’m glad you’re able to handle your own defense now. I wish it had been the case then, as well, obviously. (And I hope you know that I am not denying you that in any way.)
One interesting point, though, about the feminist response on “rape culture”: One reason you have to defend yourself is because many men won’t. Now, that’s a very broad statement and I’m not merely indicting maledom. That’s the feminists’ job.
No, the problem is that feminists have spent decades tearing down chivalry. They’ve spent decades tearing down manliness. They’ve spent all this time and effort tearing down the thing that actually prevented/mitigated any sort of “rape culture”. When the natural consequences flow from that – and impact women, in particular – they then scream about a “rape culture”. Then, freakily, they scream that it is the responsibility of the male portion of society to change this culture that is the direct result of their misandry.
Their fear of a strong woman defending herself is that it reduces the impact of their screeching misandry.
BTW, IMHO, a few women shooting/karate chopping/impaling on their umbrellas a few rapists-to-be would reduce the “rape culture” significantly.
Cricket says: I agree with the assessment of feminizibg the chivalry out of men. Here in the Deep South, men still hold doors, pull chairs and help women on with their coats. They still walk on the outside of sidewalk facing traffic. Tip their hats to women, and generally behave like gentlemen.
Zack says: Came across this today as another high profile rapist gets off with a slap on the wrist (Brock Turner) and it was a breath of fresh air.
Brock is a rapist, but why the HELL did his victim deny herself the faculties to protect herself by over consumption of alcohol?
The idea that we can teach all men not to rape is predicated on the idea that all people are good and want to do the right thing, and that is sadly untrue.
My son’s and daughters alike get taught that personal safety is about YOU. There are BAD people in the world, and you must be ready to face them should you encounter them. It isn’t your fault that they are bad, and their designs on you are not a measure of your worth, but intentional impairment of your physical and mental faculties does not come without risk.
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