In America there has always been a struggle for gender equality and what that truly means. In the nineteenth century American women could not vote, hold office, or sit on juries. Married women were subjected to the will of their husbands. They were not even entitled to control the money they earned; their assets belonged to their husbands. Women were generally barred from speaking in public, even when the audience was reform-oriented (Benson, Sonia, Daniel E. Brannen, Jr., and Rebecca Valentine. "Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention." UXL Encyclopedia of U.S. History. Vol. 7. Detroit: UXL, 2009. 1386-1388. Web. 17 Oct. 2016.) Current day United States of America women have every right a male does and is seen as equal counterparts but just
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What are the circumstance in which a man is allowed to defend himself against a female and not be attacked physically or verbally by general public? For instance, if a 80-pound white blonde female was to continuously physically or verbally abuse a 260-pound male body builder is it ok is it ok for him to defend his self? If a 200-pound black female was to continuously physically or verbally abuse a 110-pound male is it ok for him to defend his self? Both of these occasions simply don’t get looked at in the same light as the other. One might make the argument it is not ok for a man to hit a woman back because he is much larger or stronger than the female but it gets looked at differently when a much smaller male is trying to defend himself against a larger stronger female. “The desire to become competent in self-defense prompts many college women to enroll in university classes for self-defense or martial arts, which are typically offered by departments of physical education and kinesiology” (Patricia, P. H., Sherrill, C., Myers, B., Rowe, N., & Marshall, D. (2003). Self-defense and martial arts evaluation for college women: Preliminary validation of perceptions of dangerous situation). Is it the macho persona that men have come to embody over the years that is keeping them from attending such classes? a view of violence as manly, and a conception of danger as something exciting to men in general that stem from the ideology of the warrior and the social organization after combat or war (Esquivel-Santoveña, E. E., PhD, Lambert, T. L., M.A., & Hamel, J., L.C.S.W. (2013). Regardless of the gender of the abuser both men and women should be competent in self-defense to deter any future occurrences of abuse and or rape. An individual’s well-being and safety is much more important than how the general public views them. In war an enemies sex becomes irrelevant when they draw their weapon It
What are the circumstance in which a man is allowed to defend himself against a female and not be attacked physically or verbally by general public? For instance, if a 80-pound white blonde female was to continuously physically or verbally abuse a 260-pound male body builder is it ok is it ok for him to defend his self? If a 200-pound black female was to continuously physically or verbally abuse a 110-pound male is it ok for him to defend his self? Both of these occasions simply don’t get looked at in the same light as the other. One might make the argument it is not ok for a man to hit a woman back because he is much larger or stronger than the female but it gets looked at differently when a much smaller male is trying to defend himself against a larger stronger female. “The desire to become competent in self-defense prompts many college women to enroll in university classes for self-defense or martial arts, which are typically offered by departments of physical education and kinesiology” (Patricia, P. H., Sherrill, C., Myers, B., Rowe, N., & Marshall, D. (2003). Self-defense and martial arts evaluation for college women: Preliminary validation of perceptions of dangerous situation). Is it the macho persona that men have come to embody over the years that is keeping them from attending such classes? a view of violence as manly, and a conception of danger as something exciting to men in general that stem from the ideology of the warrior and the social organization after combat or war (Esquivel-Santoveña, E. E., PhD, Lambert, T. L., M.A., & Hamel, J., L.C.S.W. (2013). Regardless of the gender of the abuser both men and women should be competent in self-defense to deter any future occurrences of abuse and or rape. An individual’s well-being and safety is much more important than how the general public views them. In war an enemies sex becomes irrelevant when they draw their weapon It