Self defense? What a Stupid Idea

In times past, feminists urged self-reliance as a means of fighting rape — through, for example, self-defense classes. In June, The New England Journal of Medicine published a study of a Canadian program that cut the risk of rape by nearly half, and the rate of attempted rape by even more. In four three-hour sessions, the program trained female students on assessing risk among male acquaintances, overcoming obstacles to resisting coercion, practicing verbal and physical resistance and focusing on their own desires and relationship values. ‘‘Effective interventions focusing on men’s behavior are also needed,’’ the authors of the study said. Yet student activists argue that the burden should be almost entirely on men to stop sexually assaulting women, not on women to keep themselves out of danger. ‘‘If someone is so incapacitated they can’t stand up or use their words, then you should not be having sex with that person,’’ said Jessica Fournier, a Harvard junior who belongs to the survivor group Our Harvard Can Do Better. ‘‘That’s where the focus needs to be. That’s much more effective than giving out a list of 5,000 things victims shouldn’t do.’’
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/the-return-of-the-sex-wars.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1

This is how jacked up philosophy can become.  If it was your daughter, would you tell her to do whatever she wants to do, no matter the risk?  Of course you would not.  You would teach her how to take care of herself to reduce the risk of suffering injury and pain.  You would explain that no matter how wrong the other party was, that won't make the injury or pain go away.

These people teaching women to love victimhood are brutalizing a generation.

This is spot on:
"To Halley, it’s strange to hear feminists appealing to men to change their behavior while leaving women out of the equation. ‘‘I’m really troubled by this trend in which women are helpless and passive and men are the big responsible protectors,’’ she said. ‘‘That’s the ideology of the gilded cage. It’s astonishing to see feminists reawakening it uncritically. If young people are going to have a robust role in creating the conditions they want to live in, feminists have to call off this ban on discussing the risks and the moral ambiguities that come up with excessive alcohol use.’’"

Reversoswabbie Weighs in on "The Fight of the Century"

One of the YouTube commenters posted the following about the "Fight of the Century" rap video:

"I feel like this piece was pretty free-market biased."  I have to support that assertion.

@dwils27 I agree, you can't trust those goons at Cafe Hayek to produce a video that doesn't advocate their belief in human freedom, and their conviction that the government's role is to protect individual liberty.  That's why we cannot allow them to not force us to do anything - we have to keep electing leaders who will use the coercive power of government to enrich their cronies while pretending to give us entitlements (that clown de Tocqueville pejoratively termed this as "bribed by our own money", but what do French economists know?  I wish I knew the French word for moron).  Freedom after all isn't free, it requires shared sacrifice, and I'm more than happy to elect people to decide what the meaning of the word "shared" is.  And no more quibbling that freedom is violated by legislative fiat, we know that markets are not perfect - it takes powerful elected officials to get perfection and root out all that nasty influence from special interests.  All that Constitutional blather about limited government - that's for utopian dreamers!!  If I and my team can just get control, we'll solve everything and best of all, we'll use other people's money (the bad people whom I'm sure we all can agree are not paying their share) to do it!