A jujitsu-trained suffragette bodyguard
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The Suffragettes Learned Jujitsu
One of the key darkest events in the suffragette campaign was Black Friday, 1910. So after that point, Mrs. Pancrist decided, Well, you know what women's bodies should not take the brunt of this campaign. We're going to smash damage property instead. Hence, Kitty's cricket ball being used to smash the windows instead. The police officers themselves were being trained in jujitsu. And increasingly the police handbook was actually saying, well, this is the kind of move you can do in this and this and this. It was very much, you know, we have to learn martial arts for our own self-defense because this is what the police are using. So
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