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Now, a disclaimer: for those of you who did not go on FOP, worry not. The woods are a facilitator for these kinds of lessons, but not the only place where they can be learned. The environment just helps the process along.
As I ventured into the world of gay nightlife, I learned a whole new vocabulary of terms that applied to lesbians—a kind of short-hand stereotyping that made it easier to categorize the women I was meeting at bars. I gradually came to understand the general looks...
Thirty women clad in athletic gear stood in the dorm’s common room, talking, laughing and eating chips and dip as they learned the art of using their bodies—and voices—as defensive weapons.
Then the women step up for their turn with the instructor to practice their newly-learned skill. As they approach the pad-wielding instructor, smiles fall off their faces, jokes of “kicking ass” fade away, and they focus on the task at hand.
According to Metivier, a writer who went hiking in the mountains of Tunisia was followed by a man and then attacked in her tent. She used what she learned in RAD to defend herself and then fled two miles.