Daily Caller: Women’s self-defense is grounded in racist and anti-immigrant sentiments, according to feminist author Wendy L. Rouse.
In her new book, “In Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement,” Rouse describes the study of self-defense through an intersectional feminist lens, and posits that self-protection has a history of bigotry.
While learning self-defense allowed white women to work outside the home, “it also allowed those same women to teach working-class and immigrant women the tactics in a white savior–esque fashion,” Rouse wrote, according to author Britni de la Cretaz’s book review. Self-defense is, therefore, highly problematic because it unloads the same male-female hierarchy of the past upon immigrant classes today, Rouse claimed.
“Marginalized folks have signed up for classes in droves following the election of Donald Trump, mirroring the historical purpose of self-defense as a means of empowerment and protection for oppressed people,” Cretaz summarized. more
It would be quicker if they just told us what wasn’t racist.
Those Finns are *so* raaacist!
Keepin’ da Sistas down, wid Telekinesis
https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/09/28/finnish-women-have-telekinesis/
Dianny, anything THEY do, ’cause they have *good* intentions….
I immediately discredit any person who uses the term “racist”.
Unlightened white cis people should just go away.
If you can defend yourself, then you are not a victim. And if you are not a victim, no-one (on the left) cares about anything you have to say.
I thought feminism was all about gender equality. If a women can’t fight like a man how can she be a feminist?
Heck, those Feminists never mention Mario Andretti or Dale Earnhardt, and they’re two of the most famous racists of all time!
Oh, wait —
It’s raaaaaacist to not allow yourself to get beaten, robbed and raped by the “oppressed”! So shut up, lay down, and take it, bigots!
– The Left
I don’t know what kind of Magic Peyote this woman drinks or smokes but it has totally destroyed her mind.
And when I say a circle is square, you’d better believe a square is round!
Time to enlarge and rebuild the mental institutions in this country! As the old saying goes: “We are going to need a bigger nut house”!
I pity (/s) the Left;
it seems they’ve hit
a dead end with “raaacist,”
and aren’t having much luck
with the whole “Nazi!” thing.
see what common core classes produce. mad maxine makes more sense than Ms.rouse
Self defense is a survival technique from the dawn of time, equally employed by males and females. It is human nature to survive.
If you place zero value on your life, children or spouse, by all means don’t resist or defend yourselves. I won’t even send flowers, you’ve proven yourself to be right, your life has no value.
The racist president obama is never mentioned.
“Unlightened”
We talkin’ weight or color? Please enlighten me.
So… racism is bad. And female self-defense is racist. So it’s bad. So when I tell a female, any female, to “Make me a sammich!” and she mouths off, am I supposed to slap her or go straight for the “thumb” stick? And what is the escalation protocol if the sammich isn’t very good?
Another brain surgeon trying to produce an article using the latest lefty buzz-word “intersectional.”
Intersectional? Isn’t that a 3 piece couch from another country?
Those poor Naugas went extinct from high-end gun owners.
You know, all that Up Holstery made from them.
Exhibit ‘A’ why theses only ‘sell’ in college bookstores. Forcing undergrads to buy your book — I guess it’s a living.
My two asian wimmins in the house are in Aikido, is that racist?
The wife can also make sammitches!!!!!
reboot
What was your address again? I lost it.
Add init@yahoo.com to my nic.
Gosh. I thought self-defense was originated in the medieval Orient by male farmers who protected themselves from male bandits?