Ranting

Aha!  The truth is finally out.  Security at the White House was breached because the intruder over powered a female Secret Service agent.  When are we going to learn men's upper body strength is extremely difficult and almost impossible to overcome?

For years now, TV programs have shown tiny, little size 2's overpowering big thugs.  It's so misleading.  The new program, NCIS New Orleans showed the female agent banging a guy's head against the table.  NOT!  "Charlie's Angels" may have been among the first.  In your dreams, ladies.

Every time I see a woman getting physical with a guy and winning the altercation on TV, I am reminded of 2 events that proves my point.

40-50 years ago, Saturday morning TV had a circus every week. (Original reality TV)   One of the acts was a tiny woman who was a black belt in karate.  Her opponent was an enormous guy with white belt training.  She lost and left the stage, humiliated and in tears.

Fast forward to the 1980's.  A female student at a Christian college in Chicago believed "no man would ever get to her."  I never met her, but saw several pictures of her and was told her story.  She was quite strong.  Competitive swimmers lift weights as part of their training and she was a competitive swimmer.  She had swimmer's shoulders.  When she was in high school, she was accosted twice-and won both attacks, proving her belief that she was strong enough to fight off any guy.

She worked at a local YMCA as a lifeguard.  One night, she was walking back to school from work, passing through a ghetto so tough police didn't bother much to investigate murders there.  One reporter was standing on a street corner and remarked as an aside that she'd heard gunfire three times in the five minutes she'd been standing there.

Walking through the ghetto at 10 p.m. was bad enough, but she was wearing head phones.  She never heard him coming.  Three weeks later, they found her mutilated, dismembered body in a dumpster several blocks from the school.

Women need to understand more than men's upper body strength.  They also need to understand their mind set.  They are NOT going to lose, even if it means they have to cheat.  That's what happened in both cases.  The big, inexperienced guy didn't follow karate protocol.  He brushed her maneuvers off like he'd brush off a mosquito.

The woman in Chicago wasn't alert to possible danger and didn't think about weapons.  The woman who told me about it said she knew men who lived in that area who wouldn't go out alone at night.

I saw understanding the mind set as part of the situation between our two sons.  The oldest is not nearly as big as his younger brother.  When he bullied him in their childhood, I would say, in frustration, "When you're adults, he's going to get even."

When my oldest came home basic training, he slipped up behind his brother and grabbed him.  My youngest was powerless-more because he adored his older brother than the lack of physical strength.

The news that a female agent was overpowered by the intruder sent me off on this  bent (rant according to my husband).  Regardless, if some young girl reads this and decides to be more alert and careful, I'm grateful and I'll continue to rant.

In fact, in my books, the lead character is protective of the woman he loves.  I think that's one reason why women who've read the one that's been published like him.  Two women have said if I know any "Charlie's," let them know!

For your won sake, please, wake up, girls.