[MR] RE:Woman Attacked at Pennsic

[Irwin]

While it is laudable that this lady was able to defend herself it is not
always the best option. The best advice is to follow your gut instinct in
this situation. If you can make an effort to get away or attract attention
that is good but whatever you feel will best preserve your life is the
choice you should make.The incidence of rape escalates significantly when
the perpetrator is able to isolate you.


YIS,

Perronelle

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christy Hemenway" <scry42 at cox.net>
To: <Sean at seansorrentino.com>; <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 12:12 AM
Subject: RE: [MR] RE:Woman Attacked at Pennsic


> And I, with my two cents, must make this point... tho' it be somewhat
> different than the rest of the discussion I have seen posted.
>
> I say Vivat! to the lady in question.  Did you read the email?
> She fought this man off!  She whacked him with a pewter mug, and
> deflected his knife.  He RAN AWAY...
>
> While defending oneself may be "expected" behavior from men, for a woman
> it requires overcoming the "lizard brain", and this is not exactly a
> simple task.  That she "proved to be a fighter" speaks well of the sort
> of woman who would be found in the SCA.  It seems too many women have
> been taught to be polite, at all costs, EVEN to men who are about to
> harm us.  I would never wish the emotional trauma of such an experience
> on anyone, male or female, and I have nothing good to say about any
> human being who attempts to physically overpower another human being,
> (except, of course, upon the list field) but to this lady I have to say:
> "YOU GO, GIRL."
>
> I hope that if you don't now, you someday soon don armor, and count
> yourself among the members of the Iron Rose.  And as for those who would
> physically harm others -- we can make 'em WISH they could hit like a
> girl.
>
> $.02
>
>  -- Lady Eadan ingen Cecht
> Scholar, Academie d'Espee
> Wildly enthusiastic Baronial Rapier Champion, Barony of Tir-Y-Don
> Myrmidon, Kingdom of Atlantia
> (42)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org
> [mailto:atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Sean D.
> Sorrentino
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:21 PM
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: [MR] RE:Woman Attacked at Pennsic
>
>
> --- Martha <lghthse at verizon.net> wrote:
> > I must jump in with my two cents worth here.
>
> i would like to thank you for telling us about this.
> i, for one, an quite tired of the annual post-pennsic
> flagellation about how the sca has declined from the
> "good old days."
>
> bottom line, you are not safe simply because the
> people you are with have dressed up in funny clothes
> and try to act like knights. predators are everywhere,
> and they walk and talk just like the rest of us. they
> existed in period and they exist now. there were no
> "good old days." your best defense is awareness. the
> problem is that no defense works all the time.
>
> please continue to tell your friends your story. an
> aware and alert lady makes a poor target. while we all
> aspire to be the rescuer, better that the attack not
> happen in the first place.
> Domenico
>
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