These brands design all types of clothing for consumers, whether dresses, pants, sweaters, jeans, tops, skirts, activewear, leggings, bras, lingerie or pajamas. Today's plus-size clothing brands target female consumers who are generally between the sizes of 14 and 32. It means be intelligent about it, able to go home and be the protector of your home team.In the past, many women who had fuller figures had to settle for dowdy and frumpy apparel that was far from 'trendy.' Things are rapidly changing, however, as the plus-size market becomes bigger and more and more focused than ever on providing consumers with fashionable clothing at highly competitive prices. That's why it has to be the last option - in the gravest extreme.

It becomes very apparent that we are controlled by the first person that makes us angry, makes us lash out. It's a high priority - self-protection and we must use that to access our inner thoughts, drives and needs and gain control. Most CC'ers talk about how carrying has made them more polite, less prone to anger - or better anger management. This is a deep subject but so is the OP's topic.

The key reason that being trained helps one is NOT to use it, it's to allow a pathway to 'Mastery of Self'. We don't want that 'aggressive instinct' side coming out in dealing with loved ones, children, in traffic, in normal disputes. But 99.9% of the time it must either lie dormant or be cloaked. The idea of a 'killer instinct' when needed is a key part of self-defense and defense of others. It is a bad metaphor for the kind of sociopaths we need to defend against.Ĭlick to expand.This is a very important reply. The distinction is more gray than it is black and white.Īnd wolves are actually noble creatures who truly do what they need to in order to survive. The question is where do they draw the line and how prepared are they. Also, I think that there are very few true 'sheep.' Most people will defend themselves and this country in the right situations. We need them to be on our side and calling them sheep does not help that end. I dislike that because those are the very people we need to keep convinced to support gun rights. The sheep metaphor is overused as a put-down for the majority of our fellow American citizens, and is especially applied to people who may not agree with us or are not as strident as us. He was in the right, but he took it farther than it made sense to take it. I agree that most right-thinking people would not use that concept for vigilantism, but I also think it encourages vigilante thinking in a significant segment of people who buy into it. It creates a fictional, fantasy role of sheepdog that is a magnet for posers. I can't see myself in any of the three roles and I think it sends all the wrong messages.

It is a poor attempt at being glib with a serious topic. I have always hated the sheep/wolves/sheepdog metaphor. I liked the article, but didn't think it went far enough. I'm not a sheepdog, and neither are most of you (probably!).:wink: It's cool if we don't all agree I just think it's a good article that is thought provoking.

That's one of the major points of the article and a huge reason that the whole 'sheepdog' analogy is a fallacy. Ghost1958 is right, the 'shepherd' is indeed a predator, too. To think of us as anything else is a serious mistake that could get you killed. You see it when shoppers get in a shootout over a kids toy. It is the legacy of our ancestors.' You see it when the mild mannered, pot-bellied middle aged doctor strangles his cheating wife. For example there are very very few 'sheep'- 'good folks who could never harm anyone except by accident.' I think John Mosby sums it up well: '.“You gotta have killer instinct.” Some believe this is something you have to be born with. I 'get' why the original analogy was made but you can't carry it as far so most do. The idea of wolves, sheep and sheepdogs is silly IMO. I think the good doctor is more right than wrong.

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