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This feels like a chicken or egg argument. Are you saying that society frames women as victims and thus women actually become victims? I suppose I can see that. But I don't know that women's self-defense classes really feed into it -- if women are trained in self-defense, then in an -actual- situation they should be able to fend someone off, thus contributing to a rising number of stories of women who avoided being victims, thus breaking the cycle.