Make-Up Magazine Won’t Tell Women About Their Best Self-Defense Options

By Bob Owens

Allure—a magazine and web site focused on giving women make-up tips and fashion advice—is now dabbling in giving self-defense advice for those poor creatures set upon by the hoards of of Trump supporters randomly attacking women for no reason at all.

I wish I was kidding.

We’ve all had that moment while walking down the street when we’ve felt less than safe. Whether it’s catcalls or a character who is trailing a little too close, at some point you have to wonder if feeling afraid on the street is normal. According to a study commissioned by Stop Street Harassment, 65 percent of all women have experienced street harassment.

It doesn’t help that our president has been accused of sexual harassment by several women, further validating the notion that sexual violence towards women is no biggie.

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Though verbal harassment and hate crimes are not new, the spike in reported incidents following the U.S. presidential election prompted Robie Flores and Alison Withers to reach out to Rana Abdelhamid at WISE, an organization that teaches self-defense to Muslim women, and create this Self Defense Starter Kit.

The project draws inspiration from makeup tutorials and YouTube culture in an effort to make self-defense tutorials engaging and relatable to …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms