For young women, who are endlessly bombarded with warnings of how to avoid assault, watching can feel like a perverse training manual.
First, there is no good way to avoid assault – 90% of rapists are known to their victims, so those old chestnuts about not wearing short skirts, or going out late at night are nonsense.
Stop blaming those who get raped and teaching females what to do to avoid assault.
Rather than admonishing women to dress a certain way, police should be warning potential offenders that they should "avoid assaulting women in order not to go to prison".
But in the example of the computer-system hacker, information technology specialists learn something new with every attack, and they learn how to avoid future assaults and enhance security.
German military thinking, under the influence of Alfred, Graf von Schlieffen, sought, unlike the French, to avoid frontal assaults but rather to achieve an early decision by deep flanking attacks; and at the same time to make use of reserve divisions alongside regular formations from the outset of war.
The question is not how to avoid life assaults but how to receive them when they hit.
In the same realm of preventing rape instead of telling people "Do not rape other people," we tell people to dress modestly, drink less alcohol or no alcohol, travel in groups, do not flirt or tease someone, download anti-rape apps, wear a special nail polish that detects date rape drugs, or even carry a gun to avoid sexual assault.
I often wear earplugs to avoid the assault on the brain.
The medical student thinks it is the only way to avoid sexual assault on the streets during a period of unprecedented abuse.
