- A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interviewed
on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting
facts:
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- 1) The first thing men look for in a potential victim
is hairstyle. They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail,
bun, braid or other hairstyle that can easily be grabbed. They are also
likely to go after a woman with long hair. Women w! ith short hair are
not common targets.
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- 2) The second thing men look for is clothing. They will
look for women who's clothing is easy to remove quickly. Many of them carry
scissors around to cut clothing.
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- 3) They also look for women on their cell phone, searching
through their purse or doing other activities while walking because they
are off guard and can be easily overpowered.
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- 4) The time of day men are most likely to attack and
rape a woman is in the early morning, between 5 and 8:30 a.m.
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- 5) The number one place women are abducted from/attacked
at is grocery store parking lots. Number two is office parking lots/garages.
Number three is public restrooms.
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- 6) The thing about these men is that they are looking
to grab a woman and quickly move her to a second location where they don't
have to worry about getting caught.
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- 7) Only 2% said they carried weapons because rape carries
a 3-5 year sentence but rape with a weapon is 15-20 years.
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- 8) If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get
discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that
going after you isn't worth it because it will be time-consuming.
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- 9) These men said they would not pick on women who have
umbrellas, or other similar objects that can be used from a distance, in
their hands. Keys are not a deterrent because you have to get really close
to the attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to convince these
criminals you're not worth it.
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- 10) Several defense mechanisms he taught us are: If someone
is following behind you on a street or in a garage or with you in an elevator
or stairwell, look them in the face and ask them a question, like 'what
time is it,' or make general small talk, 'I can't believe it is so cold
out here,' or 'we're in for a bad winter' etc. Now you've seen their face
and could identify them in a lineup, you lose appeal as a target.
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- 11) If someone is coming toward you, hold out your hands
in front of you and yell 'Stop' or 'Stay back!' Most of the rapists this
man talked to said they'd leave a woman alone if she yelled or showed that
she would not be afraid to fight back. Again, they are looking for an EASY
target.
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- 12) If you carry pepper spray (this instructor was a
huge advocate of it and carries it with him wherever he goes,) yelling
'I HAVE PEPPER SPRAY' and holding it out will be a deterrent.
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- 13) If someone grabs you, you can't beat them with your
strength but you can by outsmarting them. If you are grabbed around the
waist from behind, pinch the attacker either under the arm between the
elbow and armpit or in the upper inner thigh -- HARD. One woman in a class
said she used the underarm pinch on a guy who was trying to date rape her.
She was so upset she broke through the skin and tore out muscle strands
and the guy needed stitches. Try pinching yourself in those places as hard
as you can stand it - it hurts.
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- 14) After the initial hit, always go for the groin. I
know from a particularly unfortunate experience that if you slap a guy's
parts it is extremely painful. You might think that you'll anger the guy
and make him want to hurt you more, but the thing these rapists told our
instructor is that they want a woman who will not cause a lot of trouble.
Start causing trouble, and he's out of there.
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- 15) When the guy puts his hands up to you, grab his first
two fingers and bend them back as far as possible with as much pressure
pushing down on them as possible.. The instructor did it to me without
using much pressure, and I ended up on my knees and both knuckles cracked
audibly.
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- 16) Of course, the things we always hear still apply.
Always be aware of your surroundings, take someone with you if you can
and if you see any odd behavior, don't dismiss it, go with your instincts.
You may feel a little silly at the time, but you'd feel much worse if the
guy really was trouble.
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- PLEASE READ THEN FORWARD THIS TO EVERY WOMAN YOU KNOW.
IT'S SIMPLE STUFF, BUT IT COULD SAVE HER LIFE. PASS IT ON TO EVERY MAN
YOU KNOW TO SHARE WITH THE WOMAN IN HIS LIFE, TOO.
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- Miriam E. Schoengarth
Metrolink Passenger Services
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- COMMENT
- From Nita Bowman
- nital@peoplepc.com
- 12-17-3
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- In seeking to learn from the right teachers, as opposed
to the 'left' teachers:
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- Instead of taking advice from piss-poor loser rapists,
you know the stupid ones who are in prison, for being so stupid, you know,
the ones being supported by tax-payer dollars, the ones we keep having
to build more prisons for. (I guess one in thirty americans, currently
being incarcerated, isn't enough.) Well, instead of taking advice from
piss-poor-human predators. How about listening to some rape-survivors and
some Honest, decent, law-abiding citizens of America?
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- A group of raped women and a group of average ordinary
law-abiding N.R.A. members figured out a foolproof way to prevent all future
rapes of women of all races, without instilling fear into the minds of
the women, forcing them to look like men by cutting their hair and wearing
pants or other clothes that hide their femininity, keeping them in the
home, off the phone, out of the food distribution centers, basically living
in fear unable to defend themselves against the obviously stronger criminal
and violent males in this degraded criminal society.
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- All the tips you have distributed are interesting but
curiously void of the obvious solution to all future potential rape violations.
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- Here in the Great White North West. All women possess
the Great Equalizer. I'm sure you heard of it. One of the world's greatest
and most powerful inventions.. elevating women to the same status as men
when the threat of deadly violence is concerned.
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- Some use a titanium ultra light .38 special with the
new butt-buster bullets. If you are curious about the new bullets that
you will be seeing in "DRIVE BY SHOOTINGS NEAR YOU", email me
later and I'll send you the source.
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- Others prefer World War II's winning favorite, the .45
ACP Guerilla stopper. Where other smaller rounds only aggravate a 300 to
400 pound gorilla, the .45 ACP takes no more than one sloppily placed round
to put the big black gorilla where it belongs: Dead in the Dirt.
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- Thanks for the tips and feel free to forward this email
to all of your freinds and family that have been raped. I know I sure have.
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- Comment
From Name Witheld By Request
2-18-3
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- Jeff - I think that you would not be surprised to learn
that I believe that rape is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable,
from which I believe a woman has a right to protect herself; by any means
required, in the moment.
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- I must protest, however, your posting of Ms Bowman's
comments, relative to how women can protect themselves from sexual predators,
as they are rife with thinly veiled and astonishingly racist intent.
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- "Great White North West"? (Many people are
acutely aware that the Pacific Northwest has long been a white supremacist/neo-nazi
focal center) "big black gorilla"?? (Everyone KNOWS that gorillas
are are black; why the emphasis?)
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- Bowman is, by insinuation, perpetuating the classic,
sophomoric & racist myth that virtually all rapists (and most criminals)
are Black males who are nothing more than simian beasts intent on wreaking
havoc and who deserve to die.
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- I am certain that there are people who can support her
assertion that a woman has a right to protect her life and honour without
polluting such a position with the poison of white supremacist innuendo.
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- IMO, such pollution significantly damages her credibility
and alienates potential allies and acts as a distraction from what her
message really should be.
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- Thank you for your considerate attention.
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