Emerging from the cocoon

If I say: “women cannot fight back against men.  They are too weak.”  I’d be called a sexist.

If I say: “women can defend themselves against men. They have the same  survival drives as the rest of the animal kingdom” I am accused of victim-blaming.

 

Attacks are defenses.  Anger is fear.  Understand the fear that motivates BOTH responses, and you’ll grasp that they seem from a flawed self-perception, a sense of paralysis that arises from your self-image failing to match the natural world.  Th...