How to get my sister to value self defense and situational awareness?

Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit. Will try posting in a women sub but have no other clue where to ask and seeking advice on it.

So I’m 19m and I have a younger sister who is 17. Ever since I was little I have always been pretty socially aware and notice patterns easily and have pretty good memory with people ( naturally it isn’t something I focus like crazy despite somewhat focusing on being socially aware). My sister doesn’t. She would have no clue if a car is following her or if someone is following her in the store. I get that as an older brother I may view things differently and trust me I don’t expect her to be paranoid but she is so unaware of everything it’s scary at times.

Recently I have tried to emphasize how important self defense is. She lets her friends use her pepper spray and doesn’t think about if it runs out and how she may need it and etc. or even if a dog is possibly attacking her or someone else how she might need it then. She walks around with this little bright purple wallet and leaves her phone on the side of things and not in her hand or pocket. Basically she hasn’t been stolen from so doesn’t actually realize how easy it is for one person with low morals to see her as a target and snatch her valuables let alone possibly attack her.

We even had a discussion and she was honest to God convinced she could beat a grown man in a fight if she wanted to especially if he is a little skinny. Mind you she is around 5,6 and weighs probably around 105 I would say ( I could be somewhat far from this but she is extremely skinny and for the longest time was around 95 pounds even when she was shorter). I offered to wrestle her or to rein-act a self defense situation to simply just let her feel the gauge of how easy it would be for a skinny guy like me let alone someone with muscle and adrenaline and bad intent to genuinly rob her or simply attack her due to mental illness or bad intent. And she said that it was useless since she wouldn’t be able to actually hurt me and even after giving her permission she brought up she would go for poking eyes and ofc kicking/ hittting genitalia which makes sense to me and ofcourse that couldn’t be done in a simulation for safety reasons. But she still doesn’t understand how hard it would be to actually go for that while some dude is trying to attack her or even if some woman attacks her.

Sorry for the long post and don’t want to seem like some overprotective brother but I’m trying to get my sister to value self defense and actually understand that she doesn’t need to be paranoid but that the world isn’t sunshine and rainbows and she doesn’t have a bubble around her.

Any advice would help.

Submitted March 03, 2025 at 10:12AM by Hyyundai https://ift.tt/xoMESpa