A friend just told me about a woman she knows who chased a guy out of the laundromat after he stole her lap top. She knocked him down as he tried to take off on his bike, grabbed his bag, took her laptop out and went back in to finish her laundry.
Guess what?
She had just gotten out of her first self defense class at noon that day. She said “I had just learned all this stuff and I figured I might as well try it.”
In my mind I multiply that pluck and energy to the thousands of women whose stories we have never heard, who have successfully defended themselves and caused an un-robbery, an un-rape, an un-assault, an un- molestation – I wish we had their stories on film to counteract all the images that tell us we can’t do this kind of thing….
