This is a wonderful video. Ronda makes it clear that women should consider the importance of their own strength and determination as desirable qualities. She denigrates the common view that women should use their bodies to marry rich men who will take care of them.
I personally subscribe to both positions. Women should be proficient in weapons, especially handguns and martial arts self defense. They should never tolerate being physically or mentally subdued by a stronger person. Victimhood is not just embarrassing and mentally demeaning it is primarily a condition that is self inflicted.
I also want to add a caveat. The first rule of self defense is ‘escape if it is possible’ I also know that many women who are strong are able to intimidate an attacker far better than most men.
Now on to the Victorian part of the blog. Victorians are improperly associated with feminine acquiescence. This docile role for women in the modern world comes directly from the Romantic Era in philosophy and worldview. Woman, in this view, were perceived as having special senses of the ‘world behind this world’ when they exercised their dainty and delicate nature. (That includes you wimpy New Agers.)
For most of the world and world history women have been subservient to men because of physical differences.
That ended with the advent of commerce and the bullet firing pistol. Women in modern commercial societies have the ability to generate their own living income and escape debilitating dependence on men. And women now have the ability to defend themselves in most serious situations.
I’m with Ronda. It is time for women to reject their subservient position and accept their powerful freedom in modern commercial society.
They should also be Pro Commerce, if their intelligence is sufficient to escape the ‘angry, women as victims’ ideology of the Left.