Gay bashing at Dallas Airport Discussion

Gay bashing at Dallas Airport

Lets talk about self defense/ Gay bashing for a moment. One of the biggest points I make when I talk about self defense for LGBTQ people is that chances are if someones targeting you for your Orientation/Lifestyle/Being more Fabulous than then chances are they aren’t being rational from the beginning.

Here we have a gay man getting physically assaulted for being gay in a full airport in Texas WHILE someone is actively trying to defuse the situation in a high witness high security area like an airport. Its like the transexual woman who got attacked at Mc Donalds, Just because you are in a crowded area doesn’t mean you are necessarily in a safe spot.

Lets break down the actually assault, The attacker goes with a kick straight to the nuts then manages to get a rabbit punch off on the person being attacked before the crowd reacts in mass and rescues him, and thank goodness that they do! Right as he makes the initial strike the attacker calls him a “Fucking queer”. This right here is the reason I train martial arts. I got gay bashed way back when and I didn’t have the luxury of having crowd intervention. With it only being a one on one fray that ended quickly it was rather tame compared to most encounters I’ve heard about. But the brazenness in the attack is what makes it all the more disturbing

This is why I’m so big on LGBTQ people actively learning how to defend themselves because I’ll be damned if I end up on the ground in the fetal position asking why me and wondering if I’m going to make it out alive ever again.

Theres not much you can do against a sucker kick in the balls lets be real here and other than not trying to grab the leg at an awkward angle and trying to square up and defend. (Which is a hell of a lot easier to armchair quarter back then to actually do) there is not much the man could have done different. He had a fair amount of space between him and the attacker since he was only in kick rage. But if you do train for self defense I feel that this is a ringing endorsement for positional drilling/ sparring where you start in a bad spot on purpose because sometimes other people get the drop on you.

In an attempt to inject some humor into a pretty grim situation: How awesome was that cowboys voice? “YOU AINT DOING THAT SHIT MOTHERFUCKER”

Anyone else want to chime in give their thoughts?