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Originally Posted by Professor S
This question was inevitable considering we are society that desperately wants to convince ourselves that everyone is the same. The fact of the matter is that men and women are not the same. Male upper bodies are 50% stronger than females.
With this severe advantage comes a greater responsibility. If a woman physically attacks you it is your responsibility to restrain her at MOST. Otherwise, just walk away.
In other words, act like a MAN. |
These are
on average reports. So it isn't always the case. Besides...I know where I'm taking this argument. If women are half as strong, I'm only going to hit her back half as hard.
But I think you legitimately extend this discussion with your last sentence. "Act like a MAN." I'd like to quote Vampyr:
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Originally Posted by Vampyr
What we should be far more disturbed by is how okay society is, or even approves of, a female hitting a male.
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In a lot of situations it seems like women feel a sense of entitlement to hit a man....? What the fuck! That's like me, a man, feeling a sense of entitlement to earn more money at the workplace. It is a totally bullshit gender norm. Even males reinforce this gender norm. In the second video, that guy got mobbed by a pack of guys for basically reacting in a very human manner. And in the first video, when the cop got called out to investigate the girl being abusive to the guy? He said he was going to interview them to find out what was going on. Flip the gender roles and that cop is going to go into the situation with a "this guy needs an ass-kicking" mentality. Males acting like white knights who need to defend fragile princesses is also a bad gender norm...but I digress.
This isn't Hippy Social Class 101 or Idealism 100 at Liberal Ideas Unviersity.
It sounds like
most people here are on board with defending yourself in a situation where a woman - or anyone, male, female, purple people - hits you first. If that includes slapping back...we see some diverging opinions.
The question is what do we do about it? Where is the entitlement?