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LilyPatToo » Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:47 am wrote:I've never used the "drive the nose into the brain" thing, but I do know that any blow--upward or straight-on--to the nose can cause such extreme pain that most attackers not on PCP will lose all interest in predation for at least a minute or so--long enough to run away.
But I have used the "break the little finger bone" tactic while being held almost completely immobile against my attacker's body, with my feet at least a foot off the ground and while terrified out of my wits. So I know for a fact that, whatever is said to the contrary by "experts", this small woman being preyed upon by a very tall muscular male had enough fine muscle coordination to easily grasp and snap his finger with the one forearm/hand I could move.
And I also remembered (during the attack) the fact that I could still move my legs and was wearing 2 inch heels and drove one of them directly into his shin bone. I'm assuming that takes some sort of muscular control--fine or gross--too. I wasn't flailing wildly, I was focused very tightly on injuring him with those slim, lethal heels.
So please don't tell people that they probably cannot perform a very simple action while under attack. Most women get this message in a more general sense from birth onward and it's very disempowering and inaccurate. I did it without training or practice, too, which tells me that if folks take self-defense classes, their rate of success should be higher than mine. My Dad simply told me about the little finger being a weak point even in a muscular person and it popped into my mind in the midst of panic and disorientation and worked like a charm.
LilyPatToo » 19 Sep 2013 08:54 wrote:I know that the injury in no way measures up to some of the horrifically abusive, scary crap that women have to take in public, but I love this article Minnesota Woman Eviscerates Her Street Harasser In A Craigslist Missed Connections Post And the next time I (in my mid-60's, for pete's sake!) am yelled at on the street, I'm thinking about doing what she did. All you women out there who've been objectified and harassed on the street, wouldn't it feel awesome to get back at the creep in this small but oh-so-public way?
LilyPat
Let me make this abundantly clear, to you and to the other men reading this: when you comment on a woman's appearance, you are not doing it for her. You are doing it for you. It's not some great way to make a woman feel sexy and appreciated. It's not flattery, even if you mean for it to be. The only thing it is is a great way for you to create a shitty power dynamic, by which you have announced yourself as the arbiter of her value, and you've deemed her fuckable, and she is supposed to be happy or impressed by that.
A Seattle flasher fresh from prison is back behind bars following allegations he raped a woman in the entrance to her Pioneer Square apartment building.
Charged with rape, Anthony P. Hawkins is alleged to have raped the woman in the early hours of May 19 as she was returning home from work. Hawkins, 37, had been out of prison for a month after serving time following a string of aggressive flashings.
King County prosecutors contend Hawkins attacked the woman as she was returning home from work. According to charging papers, the entire incident was caught on camera.
Returning home by taxi shortly before 4 a.m., the woman was unlocking her building’s front door when Hawkins attacked her from behind, a Seattle police detective said in charging papers.
Hawkins pushed her to the ground, dropped his pants and raped the woman in the apartment alcove before calmly walking away, the detective continued. A passerby spotted her and called for police.
Officers responding to the area spotted Hawkins nearby. He was arrested and subsequently identified by the woman as her assailant; according to charging papers, she told police she’d never seen Hawkins before.
Questioned by police, Hawkins claimed he’d known the woman for years, the detective told the court. He is alleged to have claimed they had consensual sex.
Video of the attack and injuries the woman received disproved Hawkins’ account, the detective continued.
The attack marks an alarming escalation for Hawkins, who’d previously been convicted of indecent exposure five times, Senior Deputy Prosecutor Carla Carlstrom said in charging papers.
Jailed for indecent exposure in November 2012, Hawkins was arrested again nine days after his release. That time, he was caught approaching people in Columbia City before exposing himself and masturbating in front of them.
Sentenced to 16 months in prison, Hawkins was released April 14, five weeks before his arrest on the new allegations.
“The current offense is a major escalation in violence from his previous acts,” Carlstrom said in charging papers. Hawkins, she continued, “poses an extreme danger to the community.”
Jailed on $500,000 bail, Hawkins has been charged with second-degree rape.
That's awful, I'm sorry to hear it.Project Willow » Thu May 29, 2014 8:25 am wrote:My sweet neighbor was raped last week right in the doorway of my building. Fortunately, we had security cameras installed last year and so the whole event was captured on tape.
LilyPatToo » Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:13 am wrote:When I was a little kid, my Dad taught me that the weakest bone is the little finger and, if I was ever attacked, I should grasp that finger and bend it backwards as hard as I could. Many years later, while shopping in a deserted pet care section of a department store, I was grabbed from behind by a tall, strong man. He easily lifted me off my feet, pinned my arms to my body and covered my mouth and nose with his hand.
But one of my arms had flown up in surprise when he grabbed me and was pinned very close to that hand over my mouth. I'm dissociative and had an alter switch that seemed to clear my mind and slow time and I felt as though I was watching from a distance as my hand closed around his little finger and--with glee--wrenched it backward. I heard the bone snap and he screamed and threw me an incredible distance. He'd been moving toward an employees-only door and he ran through it, escaped and never was caught.
Please, people--tell your mothers/daughters/sisters about that little trick. I've spent a lifetime being targeted for suggestive comments on the street (and, incredibly, it's still happening even now that I'm in my mid-60's), but there are more overtly abusive, predatory men out there too. Another tactic to use on larger attackers if you're pinned front-to-front by one is to strike upward with the heel of the hand against the base of the nose where it meets the upper lip. I'm told it can kill if the nasal cartilage is shoved up into the brain, but even a light blow is supposed to be exquisitely painful and should distract an attacker long enough for a woman to run like hell.
But it just infuriates me that we have to learn tactics like those just to safely be in the world
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