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Why aren’t we teaching women self-defence?

22 March 2021

7:26 PM

22 March 2021

7:26 PM

Women all know that queasy shock of hyper-awareness when a man on the street or the Tube or bus begins to behave in a threatening way. It is a moment in which an action plan is hatched and, in the vast majority of cases, that action plan is to try and disappear.

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