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Real Life Tips For Women In A World That Doesn’t Do Enough To Protect Us
Advice from a women’s self defense instructor on how to safeguard yourself.
In my youth, the word “rape” just wasn’t something you heard of very much in the small towns of the sleepy South. I can still remember when we would go to sleep or go into town and leave our doors unlocked. We didn’t worry about someone coming into our home and doing unspeakable things.
April 2021 is coincidentally the 20th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It’s a sad world that we live in that we have to have an entire month dedicated to warning people about how sexual assaults can occur and how to prevent them. Most “awareness months” are dedicated to health concerns such as various cancers, HIV/AIDS, children’s health, rare diseases, eating disorders, PSTD, breastfeeding, and obesity. Sexual assault is so common that it shares the stage with life-changing diseases and conditions. There is no doubt that any form of sexual assault is life-altering and the fact that it still occurs today, in modern civilizations is barbaric. It is a primitive crime that should no longer exist in our society, yet it does.
