French Fridays, Standing Together in Bath, and Adulting ed

The common good, or the general welfare, often requires asking how far one is prepared to go to help another, a stranger, and yes, it was right to stand with that woman, back in Bath.  Our entire world must become more fully inclusive for all of us, so that such stands will become unnecessary.

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“Does violence ever solve anything?
My answer back then: Almost never, but knowing how to duck certainly does…”:

As a woman, hence as a human being whose duty it is to learn to defend myself and other vulnerable beings, and as a nearly life-long student of martial arts/fencing/self-defense, while I deplore violence in all of its forms, and would very much like to believe that violence solves nothing, there are times when, as even Gandhi said, violence may be less incorrect than doing nothing. I have stood between a woman and a man beating her, and had he not backed down, I would have had to choose between ducking and being swept aside, or sweeping him and putting him on the ground: I have had to defend myself using sweeps and arm-bars in the past from a man I thought to be a friend. Had I not locked his arm out, he would have continued trying to ‘convince’ me to have sex with him, as he put it. Once he saw that I was well-trained (and he felt me lock his elbow out), he changed his tune and let me leave. If that is violence, then sometimes, it is necessary. Sadly.

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So, it turns out that I had to finally write up a narrative version of this incident, 

 

but still I definitely recall writing it up as a telling, rather than showing, in gut-wrenching detail.

Hiro: ‘a hero too scared to use his powers does not deserve them’

he’s right. ” -still!
Brolly Lady, as they called me: 2007-09-12

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ShiraDest

February, 2021 CE = February 12021 HE, updated July, 2023…

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