Some martial artists, male and female, get very confused or even upset when Women’s Self Defense is singled out as separate from other forms of Self Defense. At CRGI, we mostly agree that there are enough fundamental differences to single out Women’s Self Defense as its own subject with its own unique issues.
The combined size and strength issues between a woman and the average attacker create unique problems, and shows us that the grafting of techniques for man-to-man combat are problematic at best when applied to women.
Teja Van Wicklen likes to say, “You need a step ladder to get to a high shelf, a painter’s ladder to get to the ceiling and even a fireman’s ladder to get to the 7th floor. But you need a rocket to get to the moon.”
On this page we will provide links to blogs and books that will be helpful to anyone searching for a new approach to the understanding of women’s self defense.
Links:
- DeviProtectiveOffense.com – Women’s Self Defense Reinvented
- CorneredCat.com – If You Have To Fight, Fight Like A Cornered Cat
WOMEN’S NEWS FEED
As Victims As Perpetators
“Woman assaulted by…” “Woman assaults…”
“Woman attacked by…” “Woman attacks…”
“Woman raped…” “Woman sentenced…”
“Woman beaten…” “Woman beats…”
“Woman accuses…” “Woman arrested…”
“Woman harassed by…” “Woman harasses…”
ARTICLE LIBRARY
Battle over the Rules of Social Behavior- Ending Sexual Harassment Will Not Make It Harder to Get Laid, Promise Flirtation or sexual harassment? Here’s how to tell the difference
- The Everyday Sexism campaign risks making all sexual advances ‘misogynist’
- Only by turning the tables on sexual aggression can we see how bad it is
- Street Harassment: Reality or feminist hyperbole?
- Memo to White Women: Don’t Be George Zimmerman – Everyday Feminism
- I Was Groped on the Subway
- Five ways that “staying safe” costs women – Slate
- The Fear Factor: A clueless male learns how scary “compliments” can be to women runners.
- GUEST BLOGGER STARLING: SCHRÖDINGER’S RAPIST: OR A GUY’S GUIDE TO APPROACHING STRANGE WOMEN WITHOUT BEING MACED
- Women – Don’t Get Raped And Killed (Op/Ed)
- Sexual Assault Statistics Can Be Confusing, But They’re Not The Point
- Realities and mythologies of rape. – Neil Gilbert. Researching the “Rape Culture” of America – Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers
- Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe
- Study: Being Nice to Women Is a Sign of Sexism
- It’s Time To Push Back Against Feminist Bullies
- 23 Quotes From Feminists That Will Make You Rethink Feminism
- Sorry, Emma Watson, but HeForShe Is Rotten for Men
- Dear Modern Feminists: So This Is What You’re Saying? –
- Feminist hysteria is causing the infantilization of women
- Famous World War II Photo Depicts Sexual Assault, French Feminists Say
- Women Against Feminism: Some women want equality without anger
- 5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die
- Normalizing Sexual Violence Young Women Account for Harassment and Abuse
- Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
- Male Violence Is The Worst Problem In The World
- Why more men should fight for women’s rights
- My Rapist Might Not Know He’s a Rapist
- Rapists Who Don’t Think They’re Rapists
- The Trouble With Pick-Up Artists
- Sex worker in West Virginia shoots dead ‘serial killer’
- Female UFC Fighters Beat Up Dirtbag Who Sexually Harassed Their Friend at a Club
- Everyone Was Shocked’: Woman Bites Rapist’s Penis Off
- Grieving Afghan mother takes bloody revenge by killing 25 Taliban militants during seven hour battle after they gunned down her son
- Woman Catches Up With Alleged Mugger, Takes Classic Photo With Him
- Tactics of female aggression
Women And Prescription Drugs: One In Four Takes Mental Health Meds - Women Need to Own it
- HOW TO BEAT IMPOSTER SYNDROME ON THE SLOPES
- The Confidence Gap
- THE PARADOX OF DECLINING FEMALE HAPPINESS
- Woman charged with assaulting TGI Fridays employee with drinking glass in Destiny USA
- Nude woman masturbates on Florida street, stops traffic
- Colma Shopper Attacked After Telling Mom To Calm Down Child Throwing Tantrum
- Teenager bitten in Sheffield Halloween attack
- Shocking moment woman jumps out of a car, grabs another driver by her hair and violently assaults her in road rage row over parking
- ‘Motorboat My Breasts!’ Doctor Orders Female Employee, According To State Report
- A 16-year-old girl is alleged to have killed her best friend by stabbing her over 60 times following a Facebook dispute.
- Teens Charged with Torturing Disabled Boy
- Woman turns herself in over Gold Coast bus attack on elderly man
- Woman Jailed For Attacking Beau Over Bad Sex
- Cops: Woman Bit Boyfriend’s Penis Over Sex Refusal
- Group of about 20 teenage girls attack a NYC subway rider, report says
- Young girls attack woman at mall in California
- Three Women Beat Up Man at Bar for Refusing to Buy Them a Drink
- SC woman charged with stabbing husband with a ceramic squirrel
- Hudson woman ‘attacks husband for being bad in bed’
- Whitehall Township woman attacks man with lamp, pours alcohol on his wounds, cops say
- Zimbabwe: Zim Female Rapists Inspire Hollywood
- Police: Wisconsin girl, 12, stabbed 19 times; friends arrested
- Crazed Woman Attacks Man for Flying Camera Drone over Public Beach in Connecticut
- Blatant Racism in Cheektowaga NY
- SEXUAL ASSAULT AND COERCION AMONG INCARCERATED WOMEN PRISONERS: EXCERPTS FROM PRISON LETTERS
- Female Perpetrators and Male Victims of Sexual Assault: Why They are so Invisible
- Breaking the last taboo: sexual abuse by female perpetrators
- Horrific cell phone footage shows teen girls ‘beating their 16-year-old friend before holding her down to be raped’
- Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment
- Woman charged with child, animal sex back at work
- Denying Rape but Endorsing Forceful Intercourse: Exploring Differences Among Responders
- Why are Men Paying this Guy to Teach them How to Abuse Women?
- A Man’s Guide: How To Tell If She’s DTF (Down To F*ck)
- Understanding the Perpetrator
- The Trouble With Pick-Up Artists
- The First Step In Defense Against Rape
- An Arc of Outrage – The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Preventing campus rapes: Our view – US Today
- Myths about rape myths – Helen Reece
- Study Finds Girls Sexually Exploited on Television with Humor
- Rape Prevention Tips Addressing and Preventing Sexual Assault on Campus – US Dept. of Education
- Rape Prevention and Risk Reduction: Review of the Research Literature for Practitioners – National Resource Center
- Campus Violence Elimination Act – Center for Public Integrity
- What happened when I started a feminist society at school
- The Rapist Next Door: Rape in Alaska
- List: States where rape is most common
- Another post about rape What Is Rape Culture?
- Barbara Kay: ‘Rape culture’ fanatics don’t know what a culture is
- 25 Everyday Examples of Rape Culture It’s Time to End ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria Rape Culture Is Real
- Changing the Hidden Curriculum of Campus Rape Prevention and Education: Women’s SelfDefense
as a Key Protective Factor for a Public Health Model of Prevention - Teaching women self-defence still the best way to reduce sexual assaults: study
- College Rape Prevention Proves to be Rare Success
- Actually, Miss USA is right: Self-defense can prevent sexual assaults – Lauren Taylor & Lynne Wanamaker
- Are Women Safer When They Learn Self-Defense? – STUDY
- 10 reasons why advocating self-defense training for women is feminist and not victim-blaming.
- WAY TO GO, MISS USA. WAY TO GO. – Martha McCaughey
- Seven Ways Women’s Self-Defense Teaches Men Not to Rape – Erik Kondo
- Empowering Women, Not Just Protecting Them – Jocelyn Hollander
- Rape Prevention Through Empowerment of Adolescent Girls – STUDY
- When Her Home Was Invaded, This Georgia Mom Fought Back — By Crushing Her Attacker’s Privates
- Two Hapless Drunks Off-Duty Pilot Allegedly Gropes Sleeping 14-Year-Old Girl on Flight
- Woman grabbed bathroom attacker in sensitive area and “twisted real hard”
- New mother stabbed home intruder to death with a steak knife after he broke in with plans to VIDEOTAPE raping her
- Georgia Rape Victim Fatally Stabs Attacker to Protect Daughter
- ACCUSED ‘BLOW TORCH SERIAL RAPIST’ ARRESTED AFTER VICTIM ESCAPED BY FIGHTING BACK WITH UNLIKELY ITEM
- Woman who killed hit man hired by husband has message for survivors
Street Harassment
- On the Tragic Murder of Mary “Unique” Spears, Street Harassment and the Very Real Fear of Escalation
- New Zealand Tries Filming A Catcalling Video And Something Amazing Happens
- When it comes to catcalling, Sydneysiders are a far cry from the New Gawkers
- Street Harassment Is Universal and Age-Old
- Hey, ladies — catcalls are flattering! Deal with it
- India: the Story You Never Wanted to Hear – iReport
- Same India-Different Story – iReport
- Notes on traveling alone as a woman in India
- Teen superhero chases down flasher for two miles
- On The Reverse “10-5 Rule” and Walking While Female
- Survey: Sexual harassment makes 20% of Metro riders feel unsafe
Victim Blaming Debate
- Why Is Common Sense “Blaming the Victim”?
- What The Hell Is Wrong With Telling Women To Be Cautious?
- Protecting Women is Not ‘Victim Blaming’
- Victim Factoring is Not Victim Blaming – Erik Kondo
- The Victim Blaming Accusation Lobby – Erik Kondo
- Blaming the Victim – Marc MacYoung
Youth & College Sexual Assault
- New Research: The College Rape Problem Is Worse Than We Thought
- The Other Side of the College Sexual Assault Crisis
- Do students get a fair hearing? An effort to change how colleges handle sexual assaults.
- COLLEGE SEXUAL ASSAULT 1 in 5 college women say they were violated
- College Presidents Appear To Be Delusional About Sexual Assault On Their Campuses
- How Drunk Is Too Drunk to Have Sex?
- NUS research reveals one in four students suffer unwelcome sexual advances
- Colleges Wrestle With How to Define Rape
- Why Schools—Not Law Enforcement—Should Investigate Campus Rapes
- ‘Nonconsensual sex’: How colleges rebranded rape
- These Fraternity Bros Are Enthusiastically Joining The Fight Against Sexual Assault
- Schools preach ‘enthusiastic’ yes in sex consent education
- List Of Names Of Alleged Rapists Written On Bathroom Walls
- Bias clouds campus assault solutions
- The real danger for women on campus – MacLeans
- College Women: Stop Getting Drunk – Slate
- ‘Undetected rapists’ on campus: A troubling plague of repeat offenders – Center for Public Integrity
- Many Teens Admit To Coercing Others Into Sex – NRP
- Why campuses are too often the scene of sex crimes – Globe and Mail
- Survivors Of Sexual Assault Quoting The People Who Attacked Them – Buzzfeed
- New Rules Press Colleges To Improve Sexual Assault Procedures
- RAINN Recommendations to the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. Sexual assaults vastly underreported on campus
- Colleges can’t play cop in sexual assault investigations
- How Often Does Your College Report Sexual Assaults?