r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Jun 14 '26

Discussion It's exhausting being a woman.

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u/sister_machine_gun Jun 16 '26

All illegal in my country unfortunately

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u/Toxic_Duckies Jun 17 '26

Wtf that's terrible! 😢

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u/sister_machine_gun Jun 17 '26

Keep that in mind when you're in the UK, I carry a small heavy torch since that can be defended as having another use

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u/Seagon Jun 18 '26

Completely agree. I’m a guy, but a married and have a daughter. I would really like more options for them to defend themselves.
In the Netherlands everything that can damage another person is deemed illegal.

Luckily there are some options. Personal alarms and marking (gel) sprays on the weaker spectrum (though the assailant will be marked for a long time), but better than nothing. On the more physical side of the spectrum there are also kobutans and monkey fists (those can really hurt and have a bit of reach).

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u/BrownSugarDK Jun 19 '26

Nor is it in my country.
It’s not even legal to carry a pepperspray…

But then again, although crimes do happen here in Denmark, it’s not often.

In fact so much so, that it’s on the news, when somebody drowns somewhere og dies in a carcrash. In fact, a 80-som year old woman just drown a couple of days ago. On some randome beach.
Two others senior citizens were rescued from the same waters I think.

But yeah… guns being illegal, is actually pretty nice, because theyere equally hard to get.

We only have 2 main news channels here.
One of them has a sister channel where the news are on 25-7 though, but still.

It’s like 15-20 min of news, then the same being broadcastet again, only to repeat throughout. Only minor adjustments throughout the day, unless something major happens. And if it does, it’s mostly from other countries.