Thanks, Pink.
I'm thinking in a different dirrection. Your story speaks loudly to the fear "nice" people have about using big guns when they are called for.
Off to swim and ponder.
I'd someday like to talk about what I mentioned - street talk being full of casual sexual brutalities. And how that may be lowering peoples' resistence to brutal acts.
Maybe a separate thread is called for?
Later.
Yes, my dear sister, was stopped coming home at night in the dark by rapist. She immediately resisted and threatened to smash his face with a milk bottle and he ran off. She returned home shaken but safe because she resisted.
I have also been stopped by a criminal when I was alone. It was apparent to me that he was skilled in immediately taking control of his victim. And my first impulse was to be polite and go along with him. But I resisted my impulse and didn't let him control my feelings or actions. And I escaped.
What struck me was how skilled he was in provoking and controlling my feelings. In fact he used my feelings against me. So it was by restraining my ordinary natural feelings that allowed me to remain in control.
My criminal was emotionally intelligent in this situation. However the mark of emotional intelligence is restraint. So it turned out that I was more emotionally intelligent than my attacker.
Also I have been taught to box so I have been trained to keep my eyes open when I am being hit in the face.
So I would suggest, for both men and women, that they learn physical self defence.
And I would even more strongly suggest that we learn emotional intelligence by learning emotional restraint.
Also emotional intelligence can also be learnt by not letting anyone put you into a trance against your will. For this is what the attacker will do - he or she will use induction techniques to put you in a trance so they can control you.
Unfortunately MBTI also uses induction techniques, such as jargon, to put you in a trance. So MBTI trains us to enter a particular type of trance, let's call it the MBTI trance. This is a similar technique used by other cults - it distracts the mind with repetitive jargon so that a trance may be induced.
And unfortunately most members here use MBTI to emotionally manipulate others. And the sad truth is that those who manipulate are easily manipulated themselves.
And last but not least, the casual sexual brutalities of the street also induce a trance, which makes us easier to control by those who wish to use us for their own purposes.
Hmmmm. You sound like a celebrity or something being stalked by the paparazzi.
This is a good example of blaming the victim.
So the right thing to do is to resist the suggestion of Algora J.
And if I were a moderator, I would ban him or her for a period to make it plain that we will resist.