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situational awareness for women
This subject can be a bit brutal and tough to cover because most modern women don’t want to “give it any energy.” If we don’t have to talk about, that means it won’t ever happen, right. Well, ok, then.
Let me ask you this. What is the number one crime against women, now and since time began? In the early years of the Roman empire, the Roman army kept prostitutes on their payroll. Ya know why? Because these ladies kept the men from killing each other. It’s the nature of the beast, like bucks in rut but there are no does around.
As the Empire grew, prostitutes were often foreign slaves, captured, purchased, or raised for that purpose, sometimes by large-scale "prostitute farmers" who took abandoned children. Indeed, abandoned children were almost always raised as prostitutes. Enslavement into prostitution was sometimes used as a legal punishment against criminal free women, too.
20th century human trafficking, as you can see, is not a new thing. It has been a way of making lots of money and having a prestigious spot on the kings court, so to speak.
Should this world break down into a mad max situation, what are your chances of not ending up as a slave prostitute or something similar? History was written by the victors. The spoils of war were it’s women. The invading enemy left it’s seed in the belly of the women of the villages and towns they conquered as a way of emasculating and embarrassing the defeated army. I know this first hand because of a delightful 90 year old women I interviewed, who survived the Nazi invasion of her home town in Poland during WWII. Her mother and older sister suffered horrible atrocities by the invaders.
Click on this link, but caution is advised This link is a little more easily digestible than some I’ve read. What humans do to other humans is- well, there is no word in the English language to describe such horrors, such hell.
To lighten the mood here, my husband tells a funny story about his college days, it was sociology or phycology class he couldn’t remember. (It was like 1975, man, come on.) What he did remember was the Professor talking about todays women having what he called “penis envy.” The Professor claimed that all women were jealous of men because as a woman we didn’t posses a penis and women wanted what they didn’t have.
It was about this time a young woman stood up in class and said “Professor, I disagree with that statement.” She said, she now had whole the classes attention. “It is a well known fact that if you have one of these (she pointed to her crotch) you can have all of those (she then pointed to her professors penis) that you want.” Of course the class roared with laughter. (There is a lesson here in what she said.)
Reptilian brain or primitive brain , why humans can act like vermin.
We have the opportunity right now to learn how to take care of ourselves and our daughters. You know, as women, we are inherently too nice. I mean, women as a general rule avoid doing anything rude or upsetting to other people, strangers on the street, for instance. We do this to a fault. We are just too damn nice!! And the “would be” perpetrator knows this because he has already sized you up.
Say someone stops you while you are out walking the dog and asks where is XYZ? You automatically stop and answer this nice looking, well dressed mans inquiry. Boom! Next thing you know you have a knife pointed into your ribs with instructions to get in the car. Shoulda’ kept on walking, you nice lady, you.
That shit has got to come to a halt, now! Being too nice and accommodating that is. The world as we knew it has changed and until we get on the other side of things, this will be our reality and worse. Agreeable people do not like conflict listen to this.
So number one, girlfriend is attitude! Attitude! Attitude! Change your way of thinking. Stop being too nice. Our world has come to a time, sadly to say, when you have to approach everyone as a suspect that can potentially do you harm. Older ladies are being knock over everyday and young women distracted by toddlers are being targeted at grocery stores on their way out to the car. News stories have been on TV since 2020 when the lockdowns started. And it is getting worse as food supplies dwindle and prices become unaffordable.
I can see a time coming, too, when you won’t want your daughters and likely your young sons out about the neighborhood alone. Going to school activities, games, dances and dating will have to change for the safety of the kids. I’m sure you have already decided this and see it coming too.
And how can we convince our young adults to move around their daily activities in groups of 3 or more? Sit your young adults down and have them watch a few series of “Criminal Minds” on Netflix. That should solidify their fear of traveling alone. Monsters love young women, especially when they are alone and looking down at their cell phone. These young women are, generally speaking, lightweight and easy to carry. I know this because a long time ago, when I was just a lightweight, easy to carry young women I actually was picked up and carried by two drunks who tried to stuff me into their car.
When my husband and I were first married we lived in an apartment above a row of storefronts on the main street of our little town. At the back of the storefront buildings was a large asphalt parking lot where we parked our car. Our little town was so family safe. Nothing bad ever happened here. It was so quiet here, people didn’t even lock their doors at night.
I had gotten home earlier and carried a bagful of groceries up the stairs and into our apartment. Ooops, I thought, I forgot to roll up the windows in the car. I ran back down the stairs this late afternoon summer day to put the windows up because it had been forecast to rain that evening. There was no such thing as a key fob that locked your car from the safety of your kitchen window back then.
The parking lot and surrounding area looked empty of any other humans. As I hit the bottom step and headed out toward my parked car, two drunks staggered out of the bar’s back door and one of them was quick enough to grab me around the waist. I was 3 months pregnant.
They were hooting and laughing about what a good time they were going to have as they carried me to their car. Luckily, one guy stopped to take a piss in front of their car while the other stuffed me into the back seat. This guy began to undo his belt as I kicked him as hard as I could. It threw him back just enough that I was able to jump up and run up the stairs with everything I had. I made it into my apartment and locked the door. I leaned against the door trying to catch my breath. I was shaking and crying in disbelief because of not what just happened but because of what could have happened. The drunks must have thought I was too much trouble and didn’t follow me.
Situational awareness has now become my best friend!!
If the above segment didn’t chased you off by now your reward will be some helpful ideas to practice now, before you really need this stuff. Get yourself notebook and get ready to learn all you can about self defense. This article is only a teaser of what is out there for you to learn.
“I don’t think anything bad will ever happen to me. I just don’t give it any thought. Our area is really pretty safe.”
From my book, I tell a story about a young woman going off to college. I gave this child some grandmotherly advice to be sure and lock her car when she is at the big city college. Green Bay, Wisconsin is where she was headed.
“Oh, what for?” She chuckled innocently.
“It’s a different world in the city.” I explained. “You could get into trouble.”
“Eh, don’t worry about me, there isn’t a situation that you can’t talk your way out of.” She responded.
I asked her if her parents had a good life insurance policy on her. Of course, I got the deer in the headlights stare.
So what exactly do we mean by situational awareness?
Not paying enough attention to our surroundings is part of situation awareness, but it is not the complete picture. There are as many definitions as there are commentators in this area, but the one that I propose to use here is:
Developing and maintaining a dynamic awareness of the situation and the risks present in an activity, based on gathering information from multiple sources from the task environment, understanding what the information means and using it to think ahead about what may happen next.
Here is an example of being aware of your situation. Let’s say you just walked into a small hometown restaurant. The first thing you need to look for are the exits, how many are there and are they accessible from the dining area. You are seated at a table, make sure you sit with your back to the wall. You will also want to be facing the main entrance.
Can you think of a reason why this would be helpful? Why should you be concerned?
If a person enters the restaurant with intent to do harm to those inside, you will know where other exits are. And because you could see the entry door you will already have those precious seconds head start to take cover or pull your weapon.
Do you leave your purse in the grocery cart while you load groceries into your car? Are you paying attention to anyone close to your car? Did you glance under your car as you are walking towards it? Did you notice that man that has been following out of the store? He noticed you and has his sights set on you as being an easy target. Can you recognize a gang? They are not always in a group. They can be like wolves in the wild, circling and closing in on their prey. You.
Being aware of your surroundings can save your life!
What do you see when you leave the store? Is there a big van parked next to your vehicle? Do you carry a gun, a knife, taser or pepper spray on your person at all times? You are crazy if you don’t. Excuse me, ladies. . .
Do you have a blindingly bright flashlight if you are out at night? Do you know any self defense? You should always carry yourself in such a way as to portray confidence and the appearance that you would be trouble if approached? Are you still too nice, are you more interested in what is happening on your cell phone?
You may only have seconds to size up the risk
Do you have a baby monitor in the part of the house you can’t hear if someone should attempt to break in? Do you keep wasp spray next to you bed at night? How about a shotgun? You can’t miss with a shotgun blast, even if you are groggy from being woken up at 3 am. Just the sound of racking the shotgun should be enough to scare any would be intruder.
Keep the house as dark as possible at night, you know where things are, an intruder most likely doesn’t. Do you have the advantage of a night vision monocular in your nightstand? Do you own a dog? A big dog?
Time to put your situational awareness into action;
Sit in your car at a busy parking lot, say Walmart or your neighborhood grocery store. Just sit and watch people coming and going.
Think like a criminal, which people are not paying attention, who are looking down at their cell phone? Who are the shufflers, those that can barely walk? Watch the lone lady loading her groceries into her car? Could she be a potential easy target? Why? Is she distracted, is her purse in the cart? Does she have her back to an open parking lot where she could be approached from behind? How many old people could you knock over and take their stuff?
Which people would you avoid? Why? Do they look like they could be difficult? Do they hold their head up and have their head on a swivel, looking in all directions as they walk? Would they know if someone was about to approach them or that they are being sized up?
Is your area prone to gang activity? Do you see any people who could be watching and sizing people up or maybe following them home?
This article is getting really long and we’ve only scratched the surface here. I’ll close for now, but my sincerest hope is that you take your personal safety seriously because I do. Please practice SA, situational awareness. Do what you have to do now to learn how NOT to be a victim. You know, the police only show up AFTER a crime has been committed, right? And in a SHTF scenario they ain’t comin’ to rescue you. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.
Share your thoughts. We can help each other and help our daughters. We need each and every one of you on the other side of this crazy chaos. Plan to be there.
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