If a woman is hitting me....I still won't hit her.

[libodem]

91. Good on ya old boy

First, I'd like to offer you an apology. You don't have to accept it. I haven't been very nice to you sometimes.
But I'm glad you won't hit back even if hit. Backing off and leaving if you can sounds like a plan.

I had to learn self defense in the 1970's because I worked at a State Hospital for the mentally ill. We couldn't hit back either. Sometimes we had to break up fights between persons. You have to know what you are doing or you will get hurt or cause someone else to get hurt. I saw less experienced staff grab the non-aggressor and hold their arms to their sides while the aggressor continued to pummel the victim. But I digress.

There are ways to block blows. And you don't have to cover your head and hide your eyes. Keep your head up and your eyes open. When the fist comes flying, you don't dodge you grab that wrist. And move in close. It stops the swinging.

Unfortunately, my ex got the jump on me, when I was pregnant with our third child. I was working and going to school. It wasn't enough apparently. He had Lupus. He thought working was a social outing because I had adult conversation. I wanted to be home with the kids. It was all so stressful. In the end I could not stay. I went to a battered women's shelter with the kids in 1984.

I had our 3rd child and finished nursing school on my own a couple of years later.

But nobody here believes I''m good enough to call myself a Feminist. (Maybe I'm a Humanist)



THANK THE GODDESS YOU ARE!!!!