I get the size and strength thing, and am acutely aware of it. I am further aware of stuff that is more important, like that from being in construction I easily 'take off the brakes' and dump all I have without hesitation. But trust me on this: I'm not a big muscular bruiser. My place on the ASPD scale takes me a hell of a lot farther than my biceps.
All I want is for them to know what they are doing and have their best fighting chance.
The way we do the classes is specifically catered not to do that, and that's why I let them hit me, and don't flinch if it is ineffective. We don't teach magical fail-safe techniques, because there are none. There's weak spots, and keeping your head enough to seize the opportunity when one presents itself.
Right, and that's the first thing we tell them: there are no 'moves'. There is survival, and assume you will.lose going hand to hand. Get mean, get it over with, and get out.
We've done so many times for many years. What's cool about grappling is that you can kinda sorta go full force (although you gotta not break joints). And yes, every single one of us goes up against not-kidding aggressive and resisting opponents. That's literally the point, to know what you can muscle your way out of and what you can't.
Ok. You just made me feel sick when you said no woman could stop any old man. You're stronger than you think.
IIRC the argument was that making it legal for women to report MALES in their spaces would make them collectively a bit safer.
Decency, modesty, propriety. That's why? Seriously, that's your argument? It's indecent for a human being to go into a private stall to relieve themselves? Or do you lift your skirt and show what's under it to everyone in the restroom before you go into the stall?
Yep, but hey, at least you have found a hill for the Democrats to die on.
Do you think you're preventing it with laws? Does someone stand at the front of many or any public restroom asking to see your genitals?
Their inability to read for comprehension isn't going to stop me from countering their false claims
It's not a defeated outlook, it's a recognition of the real differences between males and females.
Correct me if I'm wrong... but you DO somehow buy the argument that giving some males access-as-a-right to female-only spaces protects those males from other males? You DO somehow buy the argument that males need protection from males... but females do not?
100% agree.
Do you think that laws that make robbery illegal prevent any robberies at all? Do you think laws against murder prevent any murders? Do you think laws against child labor prevent any children from being given jobs in manufacturing plants? It won't prevent all of them, but it *will* prevent at least some.
This is dumb. It's annoyingly and shallowly dumb. Some few males can effectively pass as females. But the majority of males who have gone through male puberty to NOT pass, and we don't have to see their junk to be able to tell that they're males.
Does this include the laws which make it illegal to offer single-sex spaces or services?
Read the room, man.
Begging the question that the video has merit.
You're making the exact same arguments that male chauvinists made about women's liberation in the 1960s and 1970s "these women are just man-haters". I lived through that period... I may have been young, but not too young to understand what Germaine Greer and Elaine Morgan were arguing, nor was I unable to see and understand how arse-holes like Normal Mailer tried to pillory them.
FTFY.
Errm, what? Are you arguing Schrödinger's bathrooms now?
Oh Poppycock! Utter drivel. You really have no ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ idea do you?