Men, Women, And Children

Thank you Toss!

China may have strict rules for having children. But at least they have to prove they can afford to have theirs and one parent must remain home and raise them.

Yes. And that quote is also completely untrue. Judo is part of our style, which is based entirely upon using the other's brute strength and momentum against them. I'll state it again: size does not matter.

And don't get me wrong, I intensely despise most femenists, but you're leaning toward the other extreme with everything you've said thusfar.

Oh, and Dire, that's rather difficult when you live where I do...

What's your point?

Oh, and we train with weapons from knives to tonfa to canes, too :P So weaponry isn't an issue.

Martial arts isn't a back up. That's silly. Martial arts is a weapon you can always carry with you (and one that can actually be used against you in court), and I'd guess I would be better at defeating someone using martial arts than I would using a gun.

Of course martial arts uses weapons...I just said we learn weapons in my martial arts school.

I'm just saying I don't generally carry a knife around with me when I go out, and I'm pretty confident that I can defend myself without one, even if my opponent is armed with steel. And anyway, the first thing to do is incapacitate them as much as possible without sustaining injury and then get the hell out :P A quick spear hand to the eyes or throat will usually give you the time you need to make a hasty getaway.

It's not like I have a choice...my parents made an uneducated decision about housing based mostly on what costed the least, and so now we're trapped in what's basically a slum.

Also, that's still insinuating that strength is a determining factor in a fight. It's not, really. I've seen a well-trained but lanky nerd take down a big football player. There are ways to fight that are not direct, even if it's "toe to toe" as you said. Of course I'm going to lose to a big guy if I just try and push against him and rawr. But I guarantee you I'm faster than most people even of my stature. Speed and technique will always, as I stated before, triumph over brute strength.

Knife fighting and disarming guns are a big part of our self defence training. The other weapons we mostly practice with forms. Also, I would disagree that most are illegal. The tonfa are basically nightsticks made of wood. The Bo staff is a big stick. Arnis are just two smaller sticks. I can't speak for nunchakus because I'm not actually sure on that one, but most of the weapons we learn are street legal. The only two I'd think would really be a problem would be the sai and kama. At black belt fourth degree we also learn a cane form, which is definitely legal :P

Jade I agree. Martial arts is a lifestyle and to be used as a last resort. I loved them but no master would teach me. Never could control temper or my punches. Was taught and used to kill with it in Vietnam war.

jadeofroses,
Best not to go out alone. If I were attacked I would go straight for the balls with the mindset that the person attacking me will let me go or lose his nut sack. He may end up killing me in the end but his nuts belong to me.

A spear hand to the eyes throat takes even less time, and causes even more of a distraction. And grabbing their balls won't help if they have a gun to your head. In fact, it might cause a jerk reaction, and the gun could go off, which is bad.

Yes he is gone and Im still here. Which should tell anyone who stops and thinks about it that he did something wrong and i didn't. That maybe his ideas and mine are different. That he violated the rules and I didn't.
Also I fail to see how providing the author with useful information from men and WOMEN constitutes hatred of women.
Women: a group of people identified by their gender.
Feminism: an ideology or a way of thinking embraced by both men and women.
These are two separate things. Thus the need for two words to describe them. And why these two words are spelled differently.
The websites and YouTube posters i mentioned above are of based on this stories author's ideas about feminism. That is why i thought they would be of use to him.