These ladies are rad! “Kick him straight in the balls and the pepper spray straight in the eyes!”
There exist people with superpowers.
They read situations with razor wits and instinct; they deploy mind control.
They size up their attackers and draw out the appropriate weapon – an earsplitting scream, a filthy look, a well-connected slap.
They are — the average woman in Delhi.
Consider this: Delhi, the Indian capital, has the highest number of reported rapes in the country and is considered the most dangerous large city for women in India. Yet, women are everywhere in this sprawling metropolis, fighting their superhero battles. Squeezed in tight on the bus to work. At overcrowded markets where hands wander. At the local bar, where they knock back a whisky but hold their drink close enough to fling it at the lecherous perv if he edges too close.
Molestation, euphemistically termed eve teasing in India, is hardly unique to Delhi, or India for that matter. But in a country where tradition and modernity flirt, and fumble, and fight, women end up honing superhuman skills to size up a situation at any given time and make detailed calculations in split seconds for their safety.
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So, physical battery and assault are totally fine then? Good to know.
Despite the sarcastic tone of the above comment, it warrants a response. Violence is not cool. However, when someone endangers you or threatens your safety, you must take care to protect yourself. If that means defending yourself physically against the harm that your attacker is attempting to perpetrate, then so be it. Whereas sexual aggression is violent in nature, self-defence is another matter. It appears that the commenter above has confounded self-defence with “physical assault and battery” and that is erroneous. Furthermore, if you do not wish to experience the consequences of a woman defending herself, the answer is extremely simple: do not harass or assault women.
GENDER ABUSE IS NOT A JOKE.
Whether it is against females or males it should be stopped.
You are absolutely correct. Gender abuse is not a joke and should be stopped. These women are talking about methods of self-defence against the gender abuse they experienced, in case that was unclear.