I don't mansplain, but here's some advice.

[Aviation Pro]

If you're female and interested in your safety.

Get a gun and learn how to use it.

If you're female and interested in your safety.

Travel in a group of your armed peers. It's called having battle buddies.

If you're female and interested in your safety.

Learn the phrase, "I feel threatened," before loosing a round. Also, get a subscription to U.S. Law Shield.

If you're female and interested in your safety.

Conceal carry always, make it part of your daily routine.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Sorry, but that sounds like the ultimate mansplain...

[Aviation Pro]

2. Too bad you feel that way

What is wrong with the advice?

[Wounded Bear]

4. You do you...nt

[Aviation Pro]

5. I will

Semper Fi.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Two men cussing each other out on a thread that is supposed to help women.

SMH

[Lancero]

12. It edges quite heavily on the usual blame that SA victims recieve.

Why didn't you try to defend yourself? Why were you alone? Why didn't you stay in a group? Props for not echoing the "What were you wearing?" by suggesting they wear body armor though.

Additionally, one sad fact that most gun nuts ignore when they say "Just get a gun and defend yourself!" - More often than not, that gun ends up being used against you.

Here's a good article on the subject - https://ocrcc.org/2016/03/17/guns-rape-prevention-a-dangerous-myth/

And a recent study along a similar subject, exploring the link between mass gun availability due to weak gun laws and SA occurrences - https://drpress.org/ojs/index.php/EHSS/article/view/19501

The TL;DR for the study - If you want to reduce SA, strengthen gun laws and get guns out of the hands of violent men.

[Irish_Dem]

6. At least he is trying and well intentioned.

More than the maggot males are doing.

[babsbunny]

3. I sent this out to Folks that might care

https://mailchi.mp/markmorford/buy-a-gun?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0asDlB7PnPPH2jh3I3KEX6TJkk8Elidy1lrLwFqeeH9m29uriszv6E-iQ_aem__2qJl9V26508jusvD-LE5A

Buy a gun.

AKA 27 things I’ve learned from social media in 72 hours

This is not my normal content. Actually, it sort of is, as what you're about to read is more or less exactly the kind of material I used to write about every week, for close to 20 years for the SF Chronicle, in my once semi-famous opinion column, which ran from the depths of 1998 through the latter half of 2017.

But I also discovered a terrible truth during my otherwise thrilling columnist run: turns out writing nearly every day about horrible people doing horrible things for horrible reasons, that can take a toll. Who knew?

Nevertheless, here I am. While the following is the sort of material I used to cover all the time, I’m doing so now with a new, social media-saturated, increasingly terrified tone. I’m not planning to make this a regular thing, but who knows. I don’t really have a readership anymore, or an established media outlet. And Substack is so very 2015. Also: Who reads? But we shall see.

Perhaps another time I can delve into the various spiritual/yogic practices and perspectives I’ve gleaned over my 25 years of teaching that can help us manage the moment, the brutal time to come. But this is not that. This is far uglier, more deliberately headlong, with absolutely zero fucks to give – AKA, meeting the moment as it is right now arriving.

It continues...

[XanaDUer2]

8. Ty for caring

I fear for young women

[Aviation Pro]

9. I fear for all women

Especially, the ones in my life.

[snowybirdie]

10. Some of us choose

not to carry firearms. You do if you want. Not for everyone.

[hlthe2b]

11. Well, that is one approach. I don't have a gun because I already know I would use it (I faced that fact

as a teenager with someone breaking in)... What I don't know (fortunately, because I managed to scare him off) is how I'd live with killing someone. No one ever talks with that after the fact, no matter how justified.

So, tactical bear spray near the front door (pepper spray on my keychain), a tactical strobe light flashlight that can be used to physically blind someone with the probes on the light face, a whistle/alarm, and my dog... Oh, a really good knowledge of anatomy directing my feet--given my years in medicine/surgery--something no male would want to experience, I can assure you.

[CTyankee]

13. Let me tell you what is wrong with your recommendation: Get a gun and learn how to use it.

It sounds so good but about what happens when

*Someone is drunk
*she/he gets in a heated argument
*a gun is easily accessed
*that gun is kept loaded for use against a thief or another "bad actor"
*the shooter discharges the weapon wildly
*an innocent family member just happens to be present
*she calls the police "there is going to be a shooting" and then a shot rings out
*she is shot dead, her mother and aunt are wounded
*the shooter turns the gun on himself

That is exactly what happened that ended the life of an innocent bystander in an incident in my family.

[GenThePerservering]

14. Learn self defense and street moves

you'll know what to do when that guy sneaks up from behind. No gun needed.

[LizBeth]

15. Thank you for the concern and I do think that is what it is. Tip.... if woman feeling unsafe,

move to a blue state. I feel totally comfortable in Oregon. Btw... I contend using a gun for self protection only works for white men. I would not trust using a gun, killing a man and not being sent to jail for life, regardless.

[jfz9580m]

16. Tasers are probably a safer option in general for self-defense

Or pepper spray. That is what I have at home. Though damned if I know where I have even kept mine. Another safety tip for self: be less absent minded..

[Alliepoo]

17. I thank you

For your advice. I’m old and therefore pretty much invisible most of the time but my daughter isn’t. I don’t think anyone would bother me but I do worry about her.