femmejosephine: (casual listening)
femmejosephine ([personal profile] femmejosephine) wrote 2015-06-02 03:05 am (UTC)

She shrugged. She didn't really enjoy fighting, although she was good at it. She was more interested in teaching the people in her classes to fight back, which was different than fighting, at least in her head. She wasn't training them for bare-knuckle bouts. She was training them to be able to defend themselves as needed.

"It's more that I enjoy teaching people to take care of themselves," she replied. "There's a bit of teaching them to fight, basic defensive moves and whatnot, but my goal is that they won't be victims, or at least not as easily as they might otherwise be. People like that don't look like someone that others want to help, so they have to be able to help themselves."

That was a fairly personal statement, and it came from her experiences, which he probably could infer. If one person walked out of the class and could defend themselves a bit better, she'd consider it a success. If not, she wouldn't teach the class again.

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