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“Sun Tzu and Miyamoto Musashi made no distinctions regarding gender. To them all adversaries were defined as combatants.” - Lawrence A. Kane and Kris Wilder, September 29, 2014 YMAA “Never Hit A Girl…Unless She’s Armed.”
One of those social conditions that permeate modern times is those imposed as to gender and how we treat those gender specific conditions. As both Sun Tzu and Musashi Sensei stated, in combat there is apparently no gender conditions. Yet, our society imposes them on us and in the self-defense community that merely places more obstacles and restrictions on how to survive. The conditions come from the influences of family, friends, and the legal system comprised of police, prosecutors, defense attorneys and the juror pool (also driven by social conditioning that includes the “Entertainment” industry).
This just sucks, i.e., when I was very young I learned about chivalry and the treatment due to the fairer sex with one major caveat, “If a woman, regardless, is going to take an attack posture and apply both the five stages of an attack along with JAM, jeopardy-ability-means, to cause damage to me then they are just another combatant and will incur the same level of force anyone would face that would stop the damage while remaining within the self-defense square (Thanks Marc MacYoung for that SDS term or phrase)>
Women can and are just as dangerous as men and some, to my beliefs, are even more dangerous. Friends and fellow Marines who served with me and had the distinction to have served in combat in the Viet Nam arena often spoke of how dangerous the Viet Nam or Cong women were in the zone. Some of the activities they performed against our military and against the innocents of Viet Nam were pretty horrid. I can tell you my belief of those fellow Marines came into question just hearing about it, i.e., like this is a fictional thing rather than realty paradigm shift event.
If you study self-defense and have to apply it against a woman just believe that when the first responders get there the inclination may be to label you the aggressor and the female as the victim. Yes, the police may understand reality but the social pressures and conditioning may bias that opinion. Take into consideration also your level of expertise, i.e., your training was in self-defense with emphasis on the physical applications, your status may be as a martial artists at the black belt level therefore gaining you the status of professional, and the types of techniques may be considered by themselves or as perceived by their martial arts connections to be deadlier than they actually are and so on ad infinitum. Now, articulate and convince the first responder so that he can present your view to the prosecutor and then see if you are arrested and/or charged. Oh, yea, don’t forget that if the situation is on cell phone video, even if truly presented and recorded as self-defense, will influence public opinions causing a political and emotionally charged response, uh oh, crap just really hit the fan, oh yeah!
Read the article by Lawrence A. Kane and Kris Wilder here: “Never Hit A Girl…Unless She’s Armed.”
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