“Our Problems Are All Fudged At the Edges”

Screenshot from “Violence Against Women” by Hannah Kugel © 2020 | Used with permission of the artist

Over the past week, two separate women that I’m teaching self defense to asked me, “what about the eyes?” They had had previous training where they were taught that a good form of self defense is to try and gauge the attacker’s eyes out, but both of these women were concerned that they wouldn’t be able to make themselves do that, if they needed to. One of the women also mentioned she had been told to splay her keys…