I recently came across the Just Yell Fire TM video/program for "teaching girls to fight back against predators and sexual assault." The website is at: http://www.justyellfire.com/index.php and, the video is at: http://www.justyellfire.com/movie/Just_Yell_Fire_Movie.mov. (If the link to the video doesn't work, just look at the home page of www.justyellfire.com and you'll see how to watch it.) Its target audience is girls and young women from age 11 to 19 years of age. I am interested in thoughtful and constructive comments about its pros and cons. What does it get right? What deficiencies do you see? If you think its effectiveness depends on something, please define that something well. Would you use it? If so, how? If not, why not? And, if you wouldn't use it, what would you do instead, given that the statistics of violence and sexual assault against girls and young women mean that doing nothing is not an option and given that relatively few members of the video's target audience will have access to years of full-contact self-defense-oriented martial arts training against larger attackers prior to an attack?
Thank you in advance for your insights,
Cynthia
Thank you in advance for your insights,
Cynthia
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