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Unladylike Episode 14: How to Shoot a Gun
https://unladylike.co/episodes/014/shoot-gunIn the first half of the podcast, they interview Dana of Trigger Warning, a Queer and Trans gun club in Atlanta and what she said struck me
At around 11 minutes, she talks about how the military's advice for going out during combat is the same advice we give girls and women about going out at all anywhere and about how that constant state of vigilance causes stress and messes with your head (after the quote, they talk stress).
"...what we tell our daughters and our sisters and our wives and our mothers to how to defend themselves and be aware of when they leave the house is the same mindset that we teach our soldiers to do when they go out on combat on patrols. And that's fucked up. When you go outside your house, pay attention to your surrounding at all times: head on a swivel. Be paying attention to your gut. Every place you go to judge whether that's a safe place to go. When people come to speak to you, be polite and respectful, but you always have to be thinking and preparing for if this dude freaks out and pulls a knife, what are you going to do."
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My listening to this podcast now ties in perfectly with the book I'm reading - Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly. It really puts a name and words to much of the female identifying experience - the rage of inequality, not being "allowed" to express it or being told we're lying, and the stress that results from the erasure and denial.https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9567707-in-the-classroom-it-was-almost-certainly-the-case-that
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