Reality101: Colleges Beginning to Offer Free Self Defense Classes For Women

If you haven’t heard the statistics about sexual assault, then you need to. The statistics are shocking and frightening. It doesn’t just inform, but it makes you really wonder what has happened to the world.

Thirty three percent of all women will be sexually assaulted in some way in their life. That is one out of every three women that will be assaulted in a sexual way. The really scary thing is that usually the assault is committed by someone that the woman knows. On top of this, three percent of college aged women are raped or have someone attempt to rape them during the school year. These statistics are way too high. I wish that they didn’t exist at all.

Fortunately though, several colleges throughout the country are beginning to offer free classes for women. These classes focus on spreading awareness of how much women are at risk. But they also give some basic tips on self defense. Thanks to these classes more and more women are learning to prevent themselves from getting into high risk situations, and if they end up in danger, they are prepared to defend themselves.

I hope more colleges start doing this. There is nothing more important than self defense, especially for women. In fact, these types of self defense classes are specifically geared toward women and no men are allowed to attend. This is done because nobody wants men to turn this knowledge to their favor and use it to attack women more.

If you are a woman, then you should look for self defense classes in your area. Hope for the best, but prepare yourself for the worst.