NO MEANS NO, SAID BY ANY GENDER!
Thinking about safety on campus is important because students never know when they could be attacked whether it’s an attempted kidnapping, rape, assault, or robbery. Such an attack causes many people to freeze. They don’t know what to do. But a self-defense class can remedy many of those concerns. Self-defense classes can help students build confidence in themselves. They can develop self-discipline, improve their physical condition and street awareness. Self-defense can aid students particularly when they are walking alone at night after classes. That’s the time when students are most vulnerable to attack.
Talking about an incident of my life, I was 10 years old when I was walking down my lane and an over drank person followed me and tried to inhale my hair's fragrance which I found immodest. I turned back to him, kicked on one of his knees, as I was learning Taekwon-Do, slapped and bawled. I was not guilty, I fought back.
There are no rules in a street or alley attack. Use whatever you have in hand, handbag, keychain, or any implement that can inflict some damage. Experts advise women when faced with an attacker, to strike the groin with a hard thrust of the knee while putting the force of their palm under the attacker’s chin. It is a tried and proven self-defense technique to allow time to run or scream for help, even fingernails can cause maximum damage.
Therefore, self-defense techniques, such as martial arts, stress avoiding or defusing physical confrontations before they escalate. However, when violence is imminent and unavoidable so that retreat is not an option, such as within one's own home, pre-emptive attacks may be sanctioned. While the use of violence, especially deadly force or pre-emptive attacks, is never the best solution to any situation and is ethically problematic, the concept of the right to defend oneself, one's family, and one's property from attack is a basic belief of human beings.
The hope for a world where such defense against attack from other human beings is unnecessary is also a universal desire.
