![]() What happens when male attackers also know martial arts? See the news story on Rachael Ostovich-Berdon. Role model Nia Sanchez (2014 Miss USA), profiled in BBB, is a fourth-degree Black Belt. Because a judo flip, karate chop, or wrestling chokehold can't deflect a bullet, I complied with the mugger's order and handed over my wallet. ![]() The mugger held me up at gunpoint (guns: the great equalizer) and didn't even bother to get out of his car. skills that were absolutely useless when I was mugged several years later. While in college I took a class in self-defense. But, it is no guarantee against being victimized. Case 2: a woman friend who was brutally battered and bloodied by a psychotic member of her own sex (for being overweight) - that case was also in the national news. Case 1: the recent shooting of Marshae Jones in Alabama. I would have been more receptive to BBB had the producers been equitable and also reported on women-on-women violence. Not all physical attacks on women are by men. The male narrator alone deserves a good, swift kick in the cojones for his annoying, belittling tone. ![]() Its presentation, to me, was offensive, simplistic, and ridiculing. As a man, I found the documentary to be yet another tiresome misandrist manifesto (pardon me, womanifesto) declaring Men as The Enemy and Women as Eternal Victims (of Men). ![]() As a mother's son and sisters' brother, I understand the point of "Beauty Bites Beast": the world is a scary place for women, who need to learn to defend themselves. ![]()
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