Opinion
Putting the boot in gender violence with Primal Combat training
Just in case the patriarchy doesn’t come through, women should consider empowering themselves by learning some kick-ass self-defence skills
01 December 2019 - 00:00
Every year, from November 25, all gender-based violence stops for 16 days*. Yes - completely. Millennia of highly febrile male-on-female violent crap - storied incidents like the state-sanctioned rape of the Sabine wives (Roman stuff) to the state-sanctioned rape of the Yazidi girls (Islamic State stuff) - are put on pause...
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