This article has
some good solid advice for pretty women, which can be summed up this way: make
yourself a hard target.
Too many women
for too long have chosen not to do this, and it has been a disaster for them. To
be clear bad men are responsible for their evil actions, 100%, but that does
not mean that women should just ignore that there is a wise way to live and a
foolish way. As the writer notes,
“I’ve
gone on record with my anger at the boomers for the way they have lied to three
generations of girls. “Women are just as good, nay, BETTER than men at
everything! We can do everything they can if only those mean ol’ scrotes would
let us have a seat at the table.”
But
we’re not just as good, are we? We’re certainly not as strong. We have a lot of
limitations when it comes to roughing it for long periods of time. Our bodies
aren’t as resilient.
And
in most of the world, we are prey.
If
I had to guess, Lauren probably looked up to Lara Logan, a hard-hitting
reporter who frequently went into war-torn areas. Maybe she looks familiar to
you.
Lara
was covering the Arab Spring celebrations in Tahrir Square for CBS's "60
Minutes" on February 11, 2011, following President Mubarak's decision to
step down. She and her team were surrounded by what CBS described as a mob of
more than 200 people whipped into a frenzy. In the crush of the mob, Logan was
separated from her crew. She was surrounded and sexually assaulted for 30
minutes by around 200 men in Tahrir Square before being rescued by a group of
Egyptian women and soldiers.2
Lara
was 39, a wife and mother. She was an experienced war correspondent with male
crew AND male security. She was still targeted and still viciously attacked.
Because
she was pretty.
And
they knew there would be no punishment.
A
blonde haired, blue eyed Pretty Girl is like blood in the water, and not just
in the third world…
…
Women are not only physically
weaker than men, we’re also more easily injured, and we heal more slowly.
We’re
also more tempting targets.
All
women have to be on their guard in unpredictable environments. All women have
to understand their limitations in this world, and make decisions accordingly.”[1]
What McTiernan
says here is spot on. It is simple wisdom that instead of being repeated to girls has been propagandised out of them.
This article
brings to my mind the account of Dinah in the Bible. All Dinah did was go out
on the town with the girls,
“1
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see
the women of the land. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the
prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her.
3 And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young
woman and spoke tenderly to her. 4 So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor,
saying, “Get me this girl for my wife” (Gen. 34:1-4).
But while she
was out on the town with the girls, a bad man and his crew were on the hunt for
a vulnerable young woman. Too many women have encountered exactly this sort of
tragedy. Many of these young women were listening to the foolish advice of
their elders that said women should be free to do what they want. And you know what
they should…in a perfect world. But we don’t live in the Garden of Eden, and even in the Garden of
Eden the serpent was waiting to strike.
Bad men are responsible for their actions. 100%. But they prey on the vulnerable for a reason.
Women read
the whole article. After that consider how to make yourself a hard target.
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