24 3 / 2010
"No one likes to think that their child can get abducted and killed and raped and all these horrible things. We need to start focusing more on the teenage girl being the hero in this situation. Too many times it’s hard to think about the girl who could walk through a room full of tigers and not notice because she’s text-messaging. But the fact that in order to truly combat this problem we have to put our faith in the teenage girl and train her on how to be safe and make good decisions. And that’s where the true change is going to be made."
San Diego Girls “Just Yell Fire” To Protect Themselves From Predators | KPBS.org
This drives me nuts. Victim blaming even from people who are honestly trying to help the situation. Teaching girls self-defense is a great skill for anyone to have “just in case”. But assuming that women need to be able to fight offenders off of them to “truly combat this problem” is putting the blame on the victims and not the offenders.
