My Dad Taught My Sister And I When We Were Young (like 5 Or 6) That If A Man Is Attacking You, Knee Them

My dad taught my sister and I when we were young (like 5 or 6) that if a man is attacking you, knee them in the balls. I also make sure to keep my location on my phone, and everyone in my family's group chat can see it. I hate that I have to know all these things to survive as a woman, but it's important.

I wanted to add some more tips that may have not been mentioned here:

If someone tries to grab your bag, instead of pulling and trying to get it back, use their force against them and ram your shoulder into them. Because they're trying to pull something back, they should fall.

If you don't have anything that can be used as a weapon, spitting and biting always helps. (Biting, especially on the hand, can hurt a lot if you put enough force)

If you have a chain bracelet, or chains on your belt or anything, you can wrap it around your fist. Rings, especially ones with embellishments or raised details, can help bruise or scratch your attacker.

If you have a carabiner on your belt loop, water bottle, bag, anything, you can take it and slide as many fingers as you can through, and when punching it can help you, especially if you have other things like key rings or chains on the carabiner.

If they push you down into dirt or by a raised planter box with dirt, you can try to take fistfuls of it and shove it in your attacker's face.

If you think someone is following you at night, take out your phone flashlight or anything else and turn around quickly, and if there is someone it can catch them off guard or make it hard for them to see.

All in all, you'd be surprised about what's NOT a weapon.

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thenetherlord

2 years ago

I mean yeah I've been doing it by device cuz mine is a microphone thing, but i also have double cords cuz of the nature of earbuds. I guess i forgot that headphones only have 1 cord lol.

only learned today that I have been wearing my headphones the wrong way for years. Won't change it, was just surprised because DOESN'T THE CORD GET IN THE WAY?

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thenetherlord

1 year ago

Theatre Update or something

Hey, if ya'll have been following up on my theatre debacles, you'll know that I was Assistant Stage Manager for my last show, even though I did more work than the Stage Manager themselves.

Well, because my old director left, (Moon talked about it in their post here, we work in the same theatre company) we got a new one, and because I was the most senior member of the Stage Crew, the Sound Designer was talking to them, and mentioned about me being ASM last year but doing more than the SM, and my director made me the Stage Manager! I finally get the title to go with all the work I'm going to have to do for this production! I'm so happy!

(is this how actors feel like when they get cast as one of the main roles istg)

Anyways I'll try to be more active with my theatre updates, as this is one wacky show and we've got a lot of new people in our company.

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thenetherlord

2 years ago

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thenetherlord

2 years ago

Came back from a music event an hour ago and my ears are STILL ringing.

Great.

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thenetherlord

2 years ago

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2 years ago

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