Why women should know how to fight.

I thought I'd write about this since I always get such strong reactions when I say that women learning a form of martial arts or combat sport should be mandatory.
I'm always met with 'Why should women live in fear' and 'women...and not men huh?'
Maybe it's just me but I find those answers so.... inane. Your idea of rebelling against the unfairness of this world is by... NOT adapting to it?
No women shouldn't walk around being afraid of getting attacked sexually or in any way. The fact that it shouldn't be that way doesn't stop it
from being a reality some women will have to face unfortunately.
It is a sad thing that it's dangerous for a woman to walk late at night by herself listening to music through headphones..or that's its probably not the best idea to jog in the park at 5am  in the morning.

There are a lot of things that are unfair in this world. NOT knowing how to protect yourself is only doing yourself a great disservice as a woman.
I personally practiced taekwondo for nearly 10 years before giving it a rest for 5 years. I recently started Practicing Seido Karate and boy..I deeply regret those 5 years I didn't practice martial arts. I forgot how much I loved it. Why I was so devoted. It's actually kinda funny because people I got to know in those 5 years I didn't practice were shocked to hear I had taken up Karate and boxing. I'm not at ALL aggressive by nature and i'm quite frankly the last person to start a fight but I've always thought it was extremely important to know how to protect myself.  I Happen to LOVE to fight as a sport though so it's been an important part of my life  since I was a kid and Thank god till this day I've never been in a situation where I had to fight to save my life. But knowing that I know how to fight If I needed it has no doubt given me self confidence and spine to stand a little taller and be a little bolder in my everyday life. It'll be the worst day of your life if you come at me man OR woman. I deeply enjoy fighting for sports so imagine if you came at me threatening my life or god forbid someone I love....HA. it's over. one of us is dying in that fight. probably you lol.

Now some women don't enjoy combat sports and I get it....you shouldn't have to, if you don't like it.
Do it anyway. It might end up saving your life one day if god forbid you find yourself in a situation you might have to fight your way out of with women or men.

your kid doesn't like karate class? No play dates, tv, barbie dolls...whatever until she takes her little behind to karate/taekwondo/boxing or whatever combat spot
you enrolled her in. Drag her ass to class kicking and screaming. It should be non negotiable and a part of your child's life from day ONE.
 she certainly does not need to make a career out of it,and after she's 18 she's more than welcome to stop practicing should she wish to. 
at that point she already knows she can fight if she needs to.
even knowing how to fight doesn't guarantee you'll win a fight. but it'll give you a fighting chance in a situation where NOT knowing how to fight could
mean life or death,
It doesn't matter if you're 50 and have never taken a self defense class a day in your life. it's never too late to start, do it now. 
if you have kids, boy OR girl, enroll them tomorrow. I'm stressing the urgency for women to do it because we are not born physically strong. well..some are lol but most of us.. we have to work for it.
 it is that simple. if you get into a situation where you have to fight a dude and you don't know how to...well that would be unfortunate wouldn't it?
Like I said, even after you learn how to fight...you might still lose. This is simply to increase your chances in that situation or to make getting away possible. it's to protect yourself/loved ones if something happened.

Learn how to take a punch. a hard one. learn how to get up after taking a beating. Learn to adjust when fighting an aggressor much bigger than you, faster than you....an aggressor holding a weapon. 2 aggressors...3 aggressors. 
learn to compensate when you're injured and still have to fight.
learn to be unafraid,brave and aggressive in a situation where someone is trying to seriously hurt you. 
spar with men and women bigger and stronger than you. Spar with fighters that will  knock the shit out of you until you learn how to handle it.
Learn not to panic when you realize the kind of danger you're in. once that moment is there, it's there. you can only count on yourself and while you
might not know what's going to happen or how it's going to end but what absolutely cannot happen is, you panicking or losing your shit. 
we can't always control how we react in a situation and the best of us still could panic and freeze in a stressful situation. That's something
that's out of our hands and there isn't much that can be done about it. but most of the time that panic comes from a place of fear of not knowing what to do.
so learn what to do.

There are things you as a woman NEED to know. weather you're a model, housewife, lawyer, maid, doctor, janitor, actress...whatever. It is of my STRONG opinion that knowing how to fight and protect yourself can only benefit you as a woman. 

Thanks.

The Irish slaves....black AND white

here is a post floating around on Facebook. thought it was a very interesting read

White and Black Slaves in the Sugar Plantations of Barbados. None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books conveniently forgot.
The first slaves imported into the American colonies were 100 White children. They arrived during Easter, 1619, four months before the arrival of a the first shipment of Black slaves.Mainstream histories refer to these laborers as indentured servants, not slaves, because many agreed to work for a set period of time in exchange for land and rights.

Yet in reality, indenture was enslavement, since slavery applies to any person who is bought and sold, chained and abused, whether for a decade or a lifetime. Many white people died long before their indenture ended or found that no court would back them when their owners failed to deliver on promises.Tens of thousands of convicts, beggars, homeless children and other undesirable English, Scottish, and Irish lower class were transported to America against their will to the Americas on slave ships. YES SLAVE SHIPS.

Many of the white slaves were brought from Ireland, where the law held that it was ?no more sin to kill an Irishman than a dog or any other brute.? The European rich class caused a lot of suffering to these people , even if they were white likethem.In 1676, there was a huge slave rebellion in Virginia. Black and white slaves burned Jamestown to the ground. Hundreds died. The planters feared a re-occurence. Their solution was to divide the races against each other. They instilled a sense of superiority in the white slaves and degraded the black slaves. White slaves were given new rights; their masters could not whip them naked without a court order,etc. White slaves whose daily condition was no different from that of Blacks, were taught that they belonged to a superior people. The races were given different clothing. Living quarters were segregated for the first time. But the whites were still slaves.

In the 17th Century, from 1600 until 1699, there were many more Irish sold as slaves than Africans. There are records of Irish slaves well into the 18thCentury.Many never made it off the ships. According to written record, in at least one incident 132 slaves, men, women, and children, were dumped overboard to drown because ships’ supplies were running low. They were drowned because the insurance would pay for an “accident,” but not if the slaves were allowed to starve.
Typical death rates on the ships were from 37% to 50%.In the West Indies, the African and Irish slaves were housed together, but because the African slaves were much more costly, they were treated much better than the Irish slaves. Also, the Irish were Catholic, and Papists were hated among the Protestant planters. An Irish slave would endure such treatment as having his hands and feet set on fire or being strung up and beaten for even a small infraction. Richard Ligon, who witnessed these things first-hand and recorded them in a history of Barbados he published in 1657, stated:”Truly, I have seen cruelty there done to servants as I did not think one Christian couldhave done to another.”(5)According to Sean O’Callahan, in To Hell or Barbados, Irish men and women were inspected like cattle there, just as the Africans were.

In addition, Irish slaves, who were harder to distinguish from their owners since they shared the same skin color, were branded with the owner’s initials, the women on the forearm and the men on the buttocks. O’Callahan goes on to say that the women were not only sold to the planters as sexual slaves but were often sold to local brothels as well. He states that the black or mulatto overseers also often forced the women to strip while working in the fields and often used them sexually as well.(6)The one advantage the Irish slaves had over the African slaves was that since they were literate and they did not survive well in the fields, they were generally used as house servants, accountants, and teachers. But the gentility of the service did not correlate to the punishment for infractions.

Flogging was common, and most slave owners did not really care if they killed an easily replaceable, cheap Irish slave.While most of these slaves who survived were eventually freed after their time of service was completed, many leaving the islands for the American colonies, many were not, and the planters found another way to insure a free supply of valuable slaves. They were quick to “find solace” and start breeding with the Irish slave women. Many of them were very pretty, but more than that, while most of the Irish were sold for only a period of service, usually about 10 years assuming they survived, their children were born slaves for life.

The planters knew that most of the mothers would remain in servitude to remain with their children even after their service was technically up.The planters also began to breed the Irish women with the African male slaves to make lighter skinned slaves, because the lighter skinned slaves were more desirable and could be sold for more money. A law was passed against this practice in 1681, not for moral reasons but because the practice was causing the Royal African Company to lose money. According to James F. Cavanaugh, this company, sent 249 shiploads of slaves to the West Indies in the 1680′s, a total of 60,000 African and Irish, 14,000 of whom died in passage.(7)While the trade in Irish slaves tapered off after the defeat of King James in 1691, England once again shipped out thousands of Irish prisoners who were taken after the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

These prisoners were shipped to America and to Australia, specifically to be sold as slaves.No Irish slave shipped to the West Indies or America has ever been known to have returned to Ireland. Many died, either in passage or from abuse or overwork. Others won their freedom and emigrated to the American colonies. Still others remained in the West Indies, which still contain an population of “Black Irish,” many the descendents of the children of black slaves and Irish slaves.In1688, the first woman killed in Cotton Mather’s witch trials in Massachusetts was an old Irish woman named Anne Glover, who had been captured and sold as a slave in 1650.

She spoke no English. She could recite The Lord’s Prayer in Gaelic and Latin, but without English, Mather decided her Gaelic was discourse with the devil, and hungher.It was not until 1839 that a law was passed in England ending the slave trade, and thus the trade in Irish slaves.It is unfortunate that, while the descendents of black slaves have kept their history alive and not allowed their atrocity to be forgotten, the Irish heritage of slavery in America and the West Indies has been largely ignored or forgotten.

REFERENCE:
It is my hope that this article will help in some small way to change that and to commemoratethese unfortunate people.NOTES) John P. Prendergast, The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, Dublin, ?, 1865(2) Ibid.(3) See, for example, Thomas Addis Emmet, Ireland Under English Rule, NY & London,Putnam, 1903(4) Prendergast, The Conwellian Settlment of Ireland(5) Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of Barbadoes, London,Cass, 1657, reprinted 1976(6)Sean O’Callaghan, To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland, (Dingle, Ireland: Brandon, 2001)(6) James F. Cavanaugh, Clan Chief Herald(7) For Mather’s account of the case, see Cotton Mather, Memorable Providences, Relating ToWitchcrafts And Possessions (1689)

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Kranium - Nobody has to know

Daughter - Youth

This. song.is. EVERYTHING!!!!


Can't stop dancing to it :)

"Youth"

Shadows settle on the place, that you left.
Our minds are troubled by the emptiness.
Destroy the middle, it's a waste of time.
From the perfect start to the finish line.

And if you're still breathing, you're the lucky ones.
'Cause most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs.
Setting fire to our insides for fun
Collecting names of the lovers that went wrong
The lovers that went wrong.

We are the reckless,
We are the wild youth
Chasing visions of our futures
One day we'll reveal the truth
That one will die before he gets there.

And if you're still bleeding, you're the lucky ones.
'Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone.
We're setting fire to our insides for fun.
Collecting pictures from a flood that wrecked our home,
It was a flood that wrecked this home.

And you caused it,
And you caused it,
And you caused it

Well I've lost it all, I'm just a silhouette,
I'm a lifeless face that you'll soon forget,
And my eyes are damp from the words you left,
Ringing in my head, when you broke my chest.
Ringing in my head, when you broke my chest.

And if you're in love, then you are the lucky one,
'Cause most of us are bitter over someone.
Setting fire to our insides for fun,
To distract our hearts from ever missing them.
But I'm forever missing him.

And you caused it,
And you caused it,
And you caused it

Yelawolf - till it's gone

Yelaaaaaa!!!! He made this beat his B*TCH. love love looooooooove this song.

BDSM documentary

Lea Salonga & IL DIVO - A whole new world

Lea Salonga, who was the character's singing voice in the hit 1992 Disney film Aladdin, impressed audience members at a recent Il Divo concert by joining the opera singers on stage for a rendition of the film's signature tune, A Whole New World. 

Salonga, 43, had a huge smile on her face throughout the performance and proved that her voice is just as strong as it was in the early '90s. The concert took place in April, but the video has just gone viral now.

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The performer, who was also the singing voice of the title character in Disney's Mulan, has made quite a name for herself on Broadway. She won a Tony playing the lead role in Miss Saigon and portrayed both Eponine and Fantine in Les Miserables.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/watch-lea-salonga-reprise-a-738175