Author’s Note: This article is about predatory people and how to stop them. For the sake of linguistic efficiency, the article mostly mentions predation against females, but please note that predation detailed here also includes LGBTQ and children.
The human animal, along with our primate relatives and other mammals, operates a vertical hierarchy partially based on physical strength and predatory skills that victimize others.
Humans embellish evolution’s power hierarchy and predator-prey paradigm by creating cultures that exploit children, females, and others.
We must note that although some people attribute vertical power hierarchies and predatory behavior to “patriarchy,” the human tendency to devalue and exploit is not always gender-specific.
Our species as a whole, and many times individually regardless of gender, is the most dangerous apex predator ever seen.
Just take a look at Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kari Lake, and Lauren Boebert to see obvious proof that not all predatory, dangerous people are men.
Throughout history, many societies treated females and children as property, chattel, creatures not deserving full if any personhood.
Systemic oppression is still happening today—our Supreme Court just sabotaged women’s body autonomy by overturning Roe v Wade at the same time Republicans and conservadems enact laws criminalizing abortion, contraceptives, the right to privacy in making medical decisions.
Republicans side with rapists, hiding behind Christofascism and other insanity, attempting to force even the youngest pregnant rape victims to be nothing more than a fetus chamber for rape babies.
Tens of thousands of “rape kits” that could identify and convict rapists and molesters languish untested, while the evidence in them degrades.
Republicans fought hard to install Brett Beer Bong Kavanaugh onto SCOTUS, despite credible sexual assault allegations. Clarence Thomas, the MAGA traitor and consummate Uncle Tom, was similarly installed despite credible sexual harassment allegations.
Crime statistics show that a sexual assault occurs every 68 seconds in America.
One out of every six American females has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime.
About 3% of American men—or 1 in 33—have suffered an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. Many of these incidents occur in jail or prison.
From 2009-2013, Child Protective Services agencies provided data indicating at least 63,000 American children a year are victims of sexual abuse. Approximately 34% of pre-adult victims are under age 12.
The GOP is the official party of rape, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, gestation slavery.
Seditious traitor Republican Congressman Jim Jordan has been repeatedly accused of knowing, and doing nothing, about alleged serial sexual assault of students at Ohio State University where he worked as an assistant wrestling coach from 1987 to 1995.
A Republican campaign strategist who made the mistake of working on Herschel Walker's Senate campaign told The Daily Beast that conservative propagandist Matt Schlapp fondled his genitals as he was driving Schlapp back to his hotel after a business meeting.
"He's pissed I didn't follow him to his hotel room," the Walker staffer wrote a friend after the alleged encounter, according to text messages.
"I'm so sorry man," the friend responded. "What a fucking creep."
The strategist asked for advice on how to tell the Walker campaign that their "surrogate [Schlapp] fondled my junk without my consent."
To add to the bizarre nature of this “alleged” crime, Schlapp’s big-money Republican activist wife blamed liberals for her husband’s sexual predation!
This ties into the fact that women can also be sexual predators, or alibis/enablers for them.
SCOTUS has on it Amy Coney Barrett, a former member of a Christofascist, misogynist cult, who along with other justices are trying to transform The Handmaid’s Tale from a fictional book into actual fact.
The infamous MAGAnut Kimberly Guilfoyle, a woman who went from sleeping with Gavin Newsom to later became the consort of Donald Trump, Jr., was accused by a female subordinate of gross sexual harassment.
According to a well-researched New Yorker article, Guilfoyle’s former employer Fox News paid the victim $4 million to settle harassment claims against Guilfoyle.
Guilfoyle abruptly left Fox in 2018 after her victim officially complained that the former Fox propagandist required the victim to work in Guilfoyle’s apartment, where Guilfoyle walked around naked, and plied the victim with pornographic photos of men Guilfoyle had had sex with.
Idaho Republican Jack Nelsen, a member of Idaho’s legislature, revealed the GOP attitude towards women’s reproductive rights by telling his colleagues: “I’ve milked a few cows, spent most of my time walking behind lines of cows, so if you want some ideas on repro and the women’s health thing, I have some definite opinions.”
Another example of systemic oppression and devaluing of victims is that judicial penalties for rapists and molesters are often light or non-existent.
I’ve examined hundreds of cases, and it’s obvious female lives and sexual autonomy aren’t valued enough by police, prosecutors, or the “justice” system.
In fact, it often seems that judges, prosecutors, cops and even juries often favor rapists over their victims.
A typical example of this is 20-year-old New York defendant Christopher Belter, a rich kid who pled guilty to serial sex crimes the lead prosecutor called "horrible acts" of sexual assault.
To the shock and disgust of the rapist’s victims and the community, Niagra County Judge Matthew Murphy didn’t give Belter any prison time at all.
"I'm not ashamed to say that I actually prayed over what is the appropriate sentence in this case because there was great pain. There was great harm. There were multiple crimes committed in the case," Murphy said to Belter in court. "It seems to me that a sentence that involves incarceration or partial incarceration isn't appropriate, so I am going to sentence you to probation."
A different New York judge, Jefferson County Supreme Court Judge James McClusky, showed obvious favoritism for a 26-year-old school bus driver who raped a 14-year-old student.
Not only did he block the rapist’s address from showing up on a sex offender database, the judge gave the rapist 10 years of probation—and no jail time at all.
I get so angry and frustrated listening to true crime podcasts such as the excellent True Crime All the Time, as the show hosts report on the many cases in which police and courts had plenty of chances to stop serial killers, rapists, child killers and other miscreants, but failed to do so soon enough.
There are a number of things that girls and women can immediately do to fight back against gestation slavery and rape culture, but first let’s look at systemic fixes that should also happen right now:
- Immediately test all backlogged and current rape kits, and mandate that new kits be tested within 72 hours of collection. Increase funding for rape kit testing, rape investigation, rape prevention.
- Immediately increase state and federal penalties for all sex crimes, installing mandatory minimums, no parole, and permanent incarceration for recalcitrant sex offenders—especially those who show no remorse.
- Immediately remove professional credentials, especially those given to teachers, law enforcement, medical workers and others, who use their jobs to commit sex crimes.
- Immediately increase penalties for physical stalking, cyberstalking, grooming, and other predatory sexual behavior.
- Implement mandatory body autonomy education at all levels that explicitly states that body autonomy is a most basic human right.
- Have a “war on sex crimes” with at least as much funding, manpower, technology and zeal as the stupid “war on drugs” was waged.
- Establish monitoring, education, and other programs to identify potential sex offenders early in life.
- Consider chemical castration and other methods of permanently disabling sexual function for sex offenders.
- Increase penalties and incarceration for violators of restraining and stay-away orders. Make it much easier for victims to get these orders and ensure police enforce them rigorously.
- Create citizen’s patrols, security escorts and other assistance for elderly, disabled people and for anyone who on their own does not have the physical strength to fight off an attacker.
Unfortunately, the likelihood that any or all of these measures will soon be implemented in the USA is nil.
And males are not going to magically start acting ethically so they no longer stalk, molest, and rape females.
That’s why I urge all females, even the youngest, to get street defense martial arts training engineered to defeat an attacker of any size, no matter if the attacker has a weapon or other advantages.
Street defense martial arts isn’t the same as regular martial arts.
Although it’s great for high-intensity training, muscle-building, and overall fitness, and can be merely a hobbyist athletic endeavor, the main goal is to learn how to escape from, disable, and even kill an attacker.
You have to ask yourself why this kind of training isn’t already mandatory for young females. When you read reports of raped or murdered women, you see over and over that because they weren’t trained to fight back, they were easy prey.
One reason young females don’t automatically get sexual violence defense training is American society is male supremacist—too many women have internalized male supremacy and aren’t eager to teach their daughters or themselves to fight back.
That might sound insane, but it’s a fact. I have way too many anecdotal experiences to prove it. And let’s face it, millions of women voted FOR seditious traitor Trump even after the Access Hollywood recording came out, proving he is a serial sexual offender. Even after widespread reports proved that Trump was a close friend of pedophile pimp Jeffrey Epstein.
A typical example of female disempowerment became evident when I reconnected with a female friend after not having seen her and her daughter since the daughter was six years old.
When we reconnected, her daughter was eleven years old but looked about 24. Her mother said she’d been diagnosed at age nine with “precocious puberty.”
Science has yet to unlock all the causes of this early puberty, but they include:
- Eating dead animals or drinking milk meant for other species, especially animals that have been dosed with growth hormones and other chemicals.
- Overall unhealthy diet.
- Obesity.
- Lack of exercise.
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) found in plastics, pesticides, fuels and other industrial chemicals that inhibit or alter the action of natural hormones. Because EDCs accumulate in the fatty tissues of animals, animal foods contain higher levels of these chemicals than plant foods.
My friend joked that her daughter had the mind of a child and the body of an adult woman.
I told her it’s not a joke. It makes your daughter attractive to sex offenders and you should train your daughter to fight back.
Her response was typical of many females I’ve said the same thing to:
“I don’t want to ruin her childhood by teaching her about bad things in the world. I don’t want her to be suspicious and distrustful all the time,” she said.
This fecklessly naive attitude is often accompanied by other bizarre “reasoning.”
One mom said she didn’t want her daughter to learn how to fight back because “she might use it on me.”
Another said she didn’t want to make her daughter “less feminine.”
Yet another said there’s no way a young female could fight off a grown man, especially one with a weapon.
“I tell [my daughter] just agree with everything he says, go on, let him do what he wants, because he’s less likely to kill you if you don’t fight.”
One surprising thing is that some women who identify strongly as feminists claim that advising females to fight back is “victim-blaming and letting men off the hook.”
“Why should I have to learn anything or do anything to avoid these bastards or defeat them,” one of my feminist friends said. “It’s up to men to change, not us.”
These disempowering attitudes contribute to the shocking number of successful rape and molestation attacks.
Instead of expecting men to miraculously become harmless, ethical humans, instead of being a passive victim if harassed, bullied or attacked, females of almost any age and fitness can master sexual violence defense training.
One of the most useful forms of this is found at “Krav Maga” gyms.
Krav Maga is a very practical self-defense protocol first developed in the 1930s by Hungarian-born Jewish martial artist Imi Lichtenfeld, a boxer and wrestler who created Krav Maga to help Jews defend themselves against Nazis. He later introduced the Israeli Defense Forces to the techniques.
Of course, Krav Maga isn’t the only martial arts brand that teaches females how to block sexual violence. The key is to deeply research any trainer and training school you’re considering, and take a couple of classes, before committing to that particular trainer.
Another tactic used by adult females is to procure a firearm. This is one of the main marketing points of the gun industry, and it’s true that a woman trained in and carrying a firearm has a better chance of defeating an attacker.
On the other hand, there have been instances where a female displayed a firearm, but didn’t use it fast enough or skillfully, allowing the attacker to confiscate the firearm and use it on the victim.
One of the main parts of professional self-defense training is installing a psychological mindset of fierce self-love, 360-degree total awareness, and a willingness to do whatever it takes, including ending someone’s life, if a person is attempting to kidnap, rape or otherwise harm you.
One woman I talked to who had bear spray and a knife when she was grabbed by a male, dragged into a wooded area, and raped explained that her “maternal instincts and gentleness” helped her “have compassion” for the rapist.
“I didn’t want to mess up his eyes or stab him,” she said. “Then I would become just as bad as he is.”
This self-defeating refusal to fight back is what society installs in little girls to keep them docile, quiet, subservient.
It’s the same kind of self-induced disempowerment that allow us to be complacent while Republican “pro-life” terrorists constantly work to reverse abortion rights, kill abortion doctors, bomb and otherwise do violence against abortion clinics, and run “pregnancy crisis centers” that trick women into believing the centers deliver science-based reproductive care.
I’m not going to go into much detail about my own situation when I had to fight off a sexual assault, because I don’t want to doxx myself or otherwise cause problems.
But I will say that it was one of the most satisfying things I ever did when I disabled the attacker and left him for dead.
I don’t know who he is or if he survived. I don’t feel the slightest amount of guilt in saying I hope I ended his life.
I didn’t report it to police because police, courts, and defense lawyers often treat rape victims far worse than they treat rapists. In a he said-she said situation, and given the justice system’s reflexive prejudice against females, it was very likely I could end up being charged with beating or killing the attempted rapist.
If that guy is still alive somewhere, that’s too bad for the world, but hopefully the beat-down I put on him will give him pause the next time he thinks about attacking a woman.
If you want to see how exciting and empowering it can be to throw off the passive docility society installs in women and children, watch the two versions (one foreign and one domestic) of the movie The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
The heroine of those films, Lisbeth Salander, is the most kick-ass feminist revenge hero of all time. And there’s one especially vengeful scene that has me standing up and cheering every time I see it. Lisbeth is an iconoclastic, inspiring role model for females of all ages.
I urge everyone to share this article with the females in your life, no matter their age. It’s never too young or too late to realize human culture is organized around power hierarchies, that male humans are the most dangerous apex predator to have ever evolved…and that you can and should fight back and win!