OPEN POST: Hat Pin Jiu-Jitsu and the Big Panic!
Join me in returning a handy weapon, the Hat Pin, an Edwardian lady's best self-defense, to prominence. Can you imagine how wonderful it was when a woman only had to reach up under her beautiful wide-brimmed hat and stab a would-be assailant with dark-sided things on his mind right in the neck? Take that, sir! Think of it. Strike fear in the hearts of men worldwide when women would have fashion work for us instead of against us. Sure, a stiletto to the temple is an old, tried and true; you can mash a foot into a bloody pulp with some wooden soled platforms, and you can kick the junk up their bellies with steel-toed cowboy boots, but then you have to balance and be agile and all that jazz. No, my ladies, hat pins, that's the way we will ride out this era of the incel. In 1901, the Suffragettes had enough of being little women objectified and bullied; besides the mailbombs and actual aggressive freedom-fighting acts of rightful protest that would come later, back then, they had ...