We beat each other with birch branches naked in saunas. We can handle ourselves just fine. We also don’t place the protection of possessions over our own, or someone else’s life. It is a cultural thing, I guess. There was a problem last summer, there was a spate of rapes going on in Oslo. Drunk girls on their own were preyed upon. Let’s just say that recipes for pepper spray were handed out by certain people who know a thing or two about chemistry and more security, (most of it voluntary) was put on the street. If the girls had had a whistle they could have been just as protected, I think, except for the girl who got into a pirate taxi, alone. Kids never think it can happen to them.