Bitchslap: A Column About Women and Fighting
BY Susan Schorn
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Self-defense instructor, black belt, and generally cranky person Susan Schorn trains at Sun Dragon Martial Arts in Austin, Texas, where she learned karate from a second-wave feminist who could snap people’s bones like breadsticks. Here she chronicles instances of everyday combat, from the dojo to the shoe section of Macy’s. Groin protection is advised.
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Column 43: It’s the Little Things (3/12/2013)Column 42: The Women of Schorndorf (2/19/2013)
Column 41: Acceptable Losses (1/11/2013)
Column 40: Intersections (12/11/2012)
Column 39: Making Weight (10/30/2012)
Column 38: The F-Word (9/24/2012)
Column 37: Scrimmage (8/15/2012)
Column 36: Castrating Daniel Tosh (7/20/2012)
Column 35: Tigers, Tigers (6/19/2012)
Column 34: Arms and the Man (5/2/2012)
Column 33: Rumblestrutting (3/8/2012)
Column 32: Fuck the Dude Up (2/3/2012)
Column 31: Moral Hazard and The Chubby Blue Line (12/5/2011)
Column 30: Where Anglos Fear to Tread (11/15/2011)
Column 29: Sven Knudsen (8/10/2011)
Column 28: Princesses (6/8/2011)
Column 27: If I Had a Hammer (5/10/2011)
Column 26: Below the Belt (4/6/2011)
Column 25: Mano a Mano (2/21/2011)
Column 24: Connecting (1/26/2011)
Column 23: The Insanity Defense (12/10/2010)
Column 22: Amber Portwood’s Very Bad Day (11/4/2010)
Column 21: Lockdown: Austin, Texas, September 28, (10/4/2010)
Column 20: Sticks and Stones (9/29/2010)
Column 19: Speaking as a Woman Who Has Been Punched in the Face… (9/8/2010)
Column 18: Breaking the Mirror (8/2/2010)
Column 17: A Child’s Garden of Moral Danger (7/8/2010)
Column 16: Cross, Training (6/22/2010)
Column 15: Security (6/3/2010)
Column 14: A Short and Potentially Hazardous Guide to Sparring Strategy (5/17/2010)
Column 13: Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Miscellaneous (4/28/2010)
Column 12: You Say You Want a Non-Violent Revolution (4/8/2010)
Column 11: On Impact (3/19/2010)
Column 10: Pain is Womanly, and Other Bullshit Myths of Childbirth (3/1/2010)
Column 9: Ghost Stories (2/11/2010)
Column 8: Sparring Class (1/22/2010)
Column 7: Choose Your Weapons (1/7/2010)
Column 6: Tidings of Comfort and, uh,… (12/15/2009)
Column 5: Women Beware Women (11/30/2009)
Column 4: Lineage (11/9/2009)
Column 3: Madness (10/20/2009)
Column 2: Dressing Up, Looking Down (10/1/2009)
Column 1: The Rules (9/16/2009)