I've seen it first-hand at university. I belonged to a group of men and women who volunteered to walk women from the library at night to their dorm room. We'd walk as a group and of course the cowards slunk out of sight.

I've listened to many stories from my sexual assault survival students of harassment everywhere. Women's Centres organize training sessions for these women which I taught with the moto, "Never Again."

Read the article above and you will note the number of prominent women who are promoting and advocating self defense classes. Here are other posts related to self defense with many women supporting the skills. https://www.jonathanmccormick.com/forum/your-safety

Penelope and I have been harassed on the street, mostly by homophobes. Some of you may not agree with our reaction and that is fine but we have had it so often we decided to fight back...literally.

We were in Denver, Colorado enjoying a relaxing time by the hotel pool when six men began harassing us. All were hospitalized.

In Salinas, California we were walking back to our hotel when four guys began heckling us from a car. We responded verbally and they got out of the vehicle and challenged us. Big mistake. We left them unconscious on the sidewalk.

One time five of us were exiting a Santa Barbara restaurant and were attacked by five guys who began their assault with homophobic comments. This time my friend Jessica dropped one then my girlfriends took the rest on. They too were hospitalized. This time a SB police officer attempted to arrest us not seeing that one of my friends was Detective Elise Laina.