Okay, I'm gonna say it. Thinking about self defense hasy mind continually revisiting a terrifying moment I used my intuition through and turned into pleasant exchanges. I keep it secret because it seems the opposite of advice, but it worked. I was 19, street kid, alone at 3am in pre-Katrina New Orleans (Jan '96), walking through the 9th ward. A group of men wearing an awful lot of red started looking at me like meat. I looked, thought that only two felt like they wanted to hurt me, and the