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1 Minute Astrology - Self Defense For Women: Yes You Can Shoot Straight!
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This is from 2008. It was a follow up to this piece: Armed and Dangerous - Shoot To Kill. Forget the peanut gallery. You too can be armed and dangerous…
To update in 2009… a couple years ago I wrote a series of blogs about the stigma a woman faces when she defends herself. Simply put if two rapists break into two houses on the same block and one woman is raped, the other kills the guy, it will be the woman who defended herself who people put the shadow on. I think this is wrong.
Women (above all) should be able to defend themselves against a man with no stigma attached and this video as scary as some may think it is, hopes to introduce people to this concept. I have no obligation to allow a man to rape me just because he’d like to and either do you. Further, if we do wind up defending ourselves we need not give it another thought, second guess ourselves etc. Oh jeez, the poor rapist!
Fact is you are not supposed to come into someone’s house with the intent to hurt them and if you do so, you do so at your own risk. If people understood this there would be a lot less breaking in and raping going on…
25 Responses to “1 Minute Astrology - Self Defense For Women: Yes You Can Shoot Straight!”
It would cause me angst (12th house Mars) but I would defend myself like that (Mars touches about everything in my chart haha).
my father told me that if i ever pull a gun, i better intend to shoot it, and if i ever shoot, i should aim to kill. don’t give second chances if someone’s threatening your life.
and i know, if my survival’s actually threatened, i will fight back. because i have and i would. something kicks in in the brain… instinct, i guess. i have no problem with instinct… it’s designed to save your ass… sometimes applying it properly in this culture is a little odd, and self control is always necessary, but, at least in my experience, it’s damn useful.
and if someone so much as threatens my child… well, that’s a decision i don’t even have to stop to think about. personal survival shouldn’t be either, but the maternal instinct is even scarier than the self preservation instinct.
scary in a good way, usually, i think.
there’s a reason why the colt revolver was called the equalizer in the “wild west”- even a tiny woman with tiny hands could shoot it to defend herself.
I just remembered a book that a friend of mine had. It was all about women serial killers. Obviously the guy who told you women wouldn’t defend themselves hadn’t read much about women and the crimes some of us have committed.
It was all women teaching the class. And when I told the soldier about it, he couldn’t believe it and now when I look back, I can’t believe it either.
he points out that you don’t mess with a Mama bears cubs. You don’t mess with a mama lion or any other mama in nature so what the hell?
How did we (women) become convinced we are incapable of pulling a trigger therefore we must submit to being raped or worse?
I am greatly relieved to have my sanity restored on this, I’ll tell you. I have NO doubt what I will do to someone who tries to harm me or why.
Here’s the funny thing:
They told in the class of some women who managed to fight off a rapist and they were heroes of course. But none of them just shot the bastard. I am sure if you just shoot the bastard you will be seen as repulsive but guess what? I am ready for that too. 
Funny that I would assume it was a man teaching the class. Sexism is some complicated shit isn’t it?
It’s a cultural thing too. I don’t want a gun (illegal in this country) and I don’t want to kill anyone, not even when they enter my house. It’s not because I’m a woman - I wouldn’t want my man to have or use a gun either. I really believe that however flawed, people should be locked up, not shot dead, when they break the law. Of course Elsa, I also see your point (I have libra) of having the responsibility to protect yourself, your family and your community, but I don’t believe guns are the way to go. I believe guns feed fear a false sense of security, but generally do more harm than good. Being a woman has nothing to do with it- I am pretty sure I could fire a gun, but I choose not to. (You know if I had kids this might be different, but for myself, no).
Amber, I understand because I used to feel that way. I’d just stop at the fact the man is in my house…not continue thinking about what happens next/ By some kind of magic he decided to leave?
Not personal to you - you can’t own a gun anyway but I realized / decided I was just not willing to co-operate with someone showing up to hurt me. He wants to rape me so I have to allow it? Think again!
And in my case there has been a real shift which is why I made the video. I feel 100% better knowing exactly what I am going to do… having thought it though. There is no right in this country to come into the houses of women and rape them so if you try to do this in mine, you are going to have trouble and if you are a woman on my block, whose house do you hope the rapist goes to? Mine, yes?
And that right there is how you have others do your dirty work.
Again, this is not personal to you, it is just how (all of) life works.
Oh hell no! I wouldn’t hesitate to kill someone who enters my house with the intent to steal or harm me or my children. I always go over this scenario over and over. I’d rather be safe than sorry……sorry that someone killed me, thus leaving my children motherless. Or my child/children being harmed/killed thus leaving me dead inside.
Now considering I don’t have a gun, I have to comeup with a plan….lol 
I’m afraid of my kids somehow getting a hold of it, or my clutzy ass shooting myself in the face.
If I can find a way to get around that I sure as hell wouldn’t hesitate to pop a cap!!
Mars in Cancer (Don’t f*ck with my family or home!) and Mars sqaure Pluto.
I don’t know what I do.
I have similar beliefs on the gun issue as Amber (and I wouldn’t be able to in my country either).
But I suspect I would fight until it seemed like as though I would be better off not fighting.
I’ve surprised myself in some situations. The last time I got followed home at night (this is something that has happened to me a lot) I ran into a restaurant and then was paralyzed and couldn’t even ask to use the phone and so went back out onto the street, hoping he had left.
But in another situation I tried to stick up for someone being beat up and I got dragged to the ground and kicked straight in the face, which was to my detriment…urgh.
I have Aries Mars, however it is trine Neptune AND opposed Pluto, so what I’d do??? Not a clue until it’s happening.
Elsa, I get your point completely.
But no, I would not hope the guy goes to your house (remember I don’t want him killed). I don’t hope someone else gets to do the dirty work, that’s not how responsibility works. If he goes to your place he gets the bullet, if he goes to mine, he gets sprayed with anti-agression spray in the eye, so he can’t see for half an hour and hopefully the police will be there in time. But there’s no trade-off in responsibility there.
I did get attacked (a number of times, but only once seriously) and the attacker left. He did. Unbelievably - he had a knife to my throat but I talked him out of it (maybe we have pussy attackers here too hahaha). The bad part-he didn’t get caught.
Let’s see whether I still have the same convictions in 15 years time.
Amber, I admire you for your compassionate stance. I do think though, that the stakes are changed when children are involved. I never thought of being attacked or killed much before I had kids (I was young and naive too, I was only 20) but I probably would have the same viewpoint as you, as the thought of myself killing someone else’s son, brother, dad, etc gives me the heebbie-geebbies. I would hate to be the person to kill somebody, but if it means that my girls will still have a mom, or I will still have my girls….that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to take.
OK well I’m bailing on my Cancer Mars thoughts for the moment ….
I was brought up with guns in the house, and with the idea that you defend your family (foremost) and your house only if you need to - but you defend them well. To this day, when I visit, my dad tells me where the guns are hidden in case I need one.
Now, I’m sure if I had to shoot someone I could, but I don’t know what it would cost me to do so. I also think if it was in defense of myself or my family, it would be worth that cost.
Like I’ve said before, I can kill; more importantly, I will kill. Thankfully, there hasn’t been anyone stupid enough yet to take me for a mark, so I haven’t been tested. I think that time’s probably going to come, though.
Did I hear that correctly, Elsa, when you said that the US had a repressed Mars? To an outsider, that would seem a little surprising…
I don’t think you heard me correctly. I don’t think in terms of national horoscopes, I think in terms of individuals.
I’m glad you put this up Elsa, I feel people shouldn’t have to worry about another individuals life if they don’t give a damn about yours. For every action there is a re-action. There is ALWAYS a consequence, and you can be sure that your re-action to a break in or a rape would be my reaction as well. I’m pretty good with an A.K. 47. I also feel Womyn should empower themselves and not feel guilty for defending themselves.
I believe that self defense is a divine right.
Whenever I see a movie with a woman getting kidnapped I’m the one yelling, “Poke him in the eye!”
I don’t have physical altercations in normal life. I count on people to be civilized, and if they aren’t, I’m going to fight dirty. So if anyone attacks me ever they are going to loose something important to them.
“So if anyone attacks me ever they are going to loose something important to them.”
Yes, Amethyst and if more people felt like you, and people knew it, there would be a lot less attacking.
Thank you Elsa.
I don’t believe in guns. I’ve never been around one. However, I do have other items, like a baseball bat, certain kitchen items, that I feel I would readily use. Oh, and I found out if you undid the wingnut on the table leg you have an awesome club because it ends up having a large screw sticking out of it. Should have seen me on moving day being happy I found something else useful, that if need be could be a weapon.
Oh, and my husband keeps swords around, although I wouldn’t think of those as they’re decorative.
“every tool is a weapon–if you hold it right” Ani DiFranco “My IQ”
I haven’t watched the video yet but Wow what an interesting thread. I don’t own a gun, but would love to learn to shoot and would have NO problem shooting an intruder. None at all. Once he chooses to threaten anything of mine? Dang– I’m even a little surprised that others don’t feel similarly. Live and learn, I guess.
Perhaps women would be safer if they were armed. If men knew they were trained and armed — from young ages. Jeez sounds like a science fiction plot– but it’s nuts what women put up with and are forced to put with. Being attacked is not a rite of passage.
Beautiful photo!
I heard in wars it’s very hard to make soldiers shoot the enemy. There’s a psychological block. No reason why it shouldn’t be present in women too. How do you test yourself in that department? I’d go with the shotgun, just in case.
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I agree and would have no problem at all defending myself and my kids. I most definitely feel a sense of responsibility to do so.