This forum seems appropriate for this subject matter: At one time certain things were against the law to even say, this phenomenom was epitomized in Orwell's 1984, in which some thoughts were considered, "Thought Crimes." A thought crime was any thought that was undesirable by the established order or social convention. At one time in US history teaching females how to defend against males was considered taboo and subversive to the order, and that females should not be educated in the arts of self defense. This was obviously a measure to protect men from retaliation from educated martial arts women. The established order was uneasy when martial arts experts began teaching women to ... kick a man in the groin as a matter of self defense. Kicking a man in the groin was once a taboo subject and at one point in history, religion ordained that if a woman kicked a man in the groin, that she should be put death as punishment. Yet, today kicking a male in the groin is an accepted subject matter, which is easily discussed and often shown on television. Yet, there is a subject in self-defense that seems to be a current taboo and that current taboo is ... kicking women in the groin as a matter of self defense. Yet, there is sufficient peril in this. Suppose we do not teach women how to or to even kick another women in the groin, or even what is the best method, the possibility arises that a female may lose a battle, be critically injured, or even killed because she did not know of or did not think to or did not know how to defend herself by striking back against her attacker. Furthermore, I would proclaim that it is the violent, aggressive, prone-to-fight women that know how to kick another women in the groin, where as the innocent, civil, peaceful women do not know of the proper way to fully defend herself. And to continue, some have claimed that it should not be stated which parts of her groin to strike, but rather to simply state "kick the groin." And it is not mentioned then, how to kick the groin, as in "toe-leading," or with "instep-leading." This knowledge not being supplied to innocent women is to their detriment when she learns that her aggressive opponent knows exactly how to inflict maximum pain and damage, by showing her decisively in a fight. By impeding knowledge to women as to the best way to defend themselves, or by impeding women's understanding as to how violent other women attack, jeopardizes only those innocent women, while allowing the violent, criminal, aggressor to continue to defeat those innocent women. The taboo of not teaching women how to defend against other women in itself is counter to the aims of self-defense. As knowledge is power, knoweldge of how to strike effectively the female anatomy gives one power to defend herself. Our archaic taboos sometimes injure most those that perpetuate the taboo.
