Reddit mentions of Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior Within Women and Girls

From the article...
>Couples will often insist that the man is the head of the household even when he doesn’t seem to be checking any of the traditional boxes. When I ask how it’s possible that he should retain the title without any of the attending duties, I almost always get some version of the same answer: If anyone threatened us, he would rescue us. If someone broke into the house, I would call him. If anything happened to the children, if a fire, if a tornado, etc.

This passage reminded me of a book I read recently by a feminist that said that the only way women could ever see themselves as equals to men is if we were raised to fight and defend ourselves and our loved ones in the same fashion that men are. The author was very critical of what she termed "victimization feminism" and said that it made women feel even more weak, passive, powerless, and therefore reliant on men. She also advocated that all women take self-defense classes and compared it to learning how to swim. She even wrote that "you can no more control the actions of rapists than the force of the water." (paraphrased)

I found her book interesting in part because, on the one hand, many of her arguments sound concurrent with what girlwriteswhat says, but she also used "feminist" concepts in other parts of the book that I don't think the latter would like all that much.

The book is written for women in mind, but if anyone here wants to read it, here it is.