Yup. If someone intends to teach their kid how to use a gun nothing I say is going to convince them not to (and nothing wrong with learning a skill in and of itself), but I definitely agreed with what people said about how that won’t really protect her from what most of us end up the victim of.

Husband and I are both teaching our three daughters that swift and aggressive action toward predators can have a great effect.

We just had this conversation the other day regarding kids posting inappropriate videos online. Yes - the idea of a minor having a gun is not good. But I know of women who are over 18 that have firearms and are not afraid to use them.

Knowing how to shoot a gun is fine, but depression and suicidal ideation can sneak up seemingly out of nowhere with teens so keep any guns locked up and keep the key with you, not hidden in the home. Even if she never feels that way, she will probably end up having friends over. Minors should never be able access guns…

She won’t take martial arts just yet. I’m getting closer though.

THIS! It’s the same for American Indian women and Mexican American women! The AfroLatinas in my life are sick of machismo and misogynoir in our culture.

And are expected to carry water for black men so the movement can go forward.

Nobody ever bothers factoring in why historically African American women have not gotten involved interacially to the same degree as black men. People forget that black women were the majority of domestics in this country well into the mid-late 20th century, and the constant threat of rape went along with the…

She may not have time to reach for a gun, so enroll her in a self defense class or/and martial arts.

Black women/girls matter less than Black men/boys in the Black community.

Thank you for this post. I’m copying it for myself and my son. He has a 3 year old daughter, my beautiful granddaughter.

What popped into my head was that when I learned about Sally Hemmings, she was described as Thomas Jefferson’s “mistress,” when in actuality she was 13/14 and his slave. There’s no justification for using a word that implies consent where it doesn’t exist. She was a child and a slave and that makes it rape. While not…

Its kind of sad I was trying to think of which case it would be and couldn’t narrow it down because there are so many like that. 

I remember that and it made me so mad! Like, I don’t care what she was doing, she was a child and her childhood was taken away. I thank God everyday I was able to grow to adulthood and not have someone take advantage of my overly-developed body*

Knowing how to shoot guns will do nothing to protect her from men/boys she is close with. She’s statistically much more likely to be harmed by men she knows than by some stranger in an alley she needs to use a gun on.

I was explaining R. Kelly to my parents last night and it was so sad to say “Well actually, this started years ago when that tape came out.” And yet now it’s this huge thing and we’re finally paying attention and in the meantime so many more women were harmed. Those defending him after all these years? Disgusting.

When the tape of him peeing on a girl came out, I heard many people (both men and women) try to justify saying that she didn’t look like a child and she was probably fast. And my response was always, you wouldn’t make that excuse if she was your daughter.

As a father of a young daughter, I don’t know how to empower her enough when dealing with men. I try to expose her to great female role models. But I’m also going to teach her how to shoot guns.