LA Boxing Pres Challenges Chris Brown to a Duel
Link to Bitch magazine article
My comment:
I teach self defense and am also a huge mma fan. I agree that the response seems more to do with frustration than it does with people actually believing it will resolve anything, or get Chris Brown to show up to get his ass kicked. I admit I would possibly enjoy that. What is encouraging is that there a lot of people who want to protect women! Maybe it wouldn’t happen as often if more people would step up and try to defuse domestic violence situations, shame perpetrators or otherwise make their cowardly behavior less easy to get away with. The legal system has taken steps, at least as far as I know in California, but so much more needs to be done to remove the stigma from the victim, reduce the urges for violence within men, and give more women capability and support to get away from abusers.
I’d like to see mma groups like UFC of course, or mma camps or clothing companies, come out strong against violence to women. Like any sport, especially violent sports, mma has its share of assholes, but in my experience mma fighters as a whole are developing a culture of mutual respect, self control, and an understanding that the sport is clearly not life, but a forum for athletic activity. Brutal athletic activity. I also glean excellent information for women’s self defense from mma techniques, so there are other obvious links as well.
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