Wouldn't those self-defense skills translate to a potential assault in a locker room?Slimshandy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:56 pmTo be honest?WellPreserved wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:44 pmHow does your husband feel about your daughter attending high school or college or church or working outside the home?Slimshandy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:17 pm
I do have a huge precaution when it comes to men…
I totally believe there are wonderfully good men, like the one I married and the one I raised…
And I haven’t at all talked to my son about this but I’ve spoken in detail to my husband about this- and this is HIS OPINION- Good men keep women safe from bad men.
He would never be comfortable with our 16 year old daughter changing clothes around any grown man, ever.
The biggest danger women as a whole will ever face - is men.
Thank God for the good ones… they don’t mean the bad ones don’t exist though.
He knows those milestones in life are needed,
But he’s taught them every method of self defense he knows. He’s taught them where to hit, he’s made sure they have pepper spray attached to their bags, he taught them how to kick and break that little foot bone if someone grabs you and he’s talked to them at length about the safety precautions he expects them to take when they live alone. As far as not leaving the window open if you live in the first floor of an apartment…
I'm really trying to understand your perspective as it's so different from my own. I, my husband, my MIL, and my daughter were all victims of sexual assault as teens so it's something that we talked A LOT about in our household (each time by a trusted family friend, relative, or in my daughter's case her track coach). Frankly, I think if we could have, we would have wrapped both our kids in cotton and never let them leave the house. At the same time, we never equated seeing genitals (male or female) as something sexual or some kind of assault which is probably why we had no problem going to clothing optional beaches with the kids while they were growing up or going to Italy, lol.
I'm just trying to understand how protecting a teen from glancing at male genitals is equated with protecting them from harm or protecting them from men?
Statistically, the number of sexual assaults that happen to cis-gender women in bathrooms and changing room is less than 1%. The number perpetrated by transgender women is almost 0. However, 34% of transgender men and women have been sexually assaulted in bathrooms and changing rooms when required to use the facility of their birth S*x. Do you think you or your husband's fears about transgender women in locker rooms would be different if your daughter were transgender? Why or why not?