Hitting a woman. Where do you stand......?

I think what RLove was trying to say is "reasonable force" is key. If a petite woman is coming at you with her feeble little twig-fists, and you could stop her just by holding your arm out and pushing her by the forehead, there's no need to punch her lights out. The same would apply to a massive woman and a weedy little bloke.

So it's less wrong to hit a woman who's stronger than you? (and they do exist)
So it's not about gender, it's about force?

What if you give her one at back the same force?

How many women are 4ft for starters?
And where do we draw the line?

Is it just as bad to hit a 5'5 weedy 19 male?
Is it okay if the woman is heavier than you?
Is it less bad if she's a bodybuilder?

Hitting is wrong regardless. It's not worse on a woman.

Not only that, but a man who alerts the police that he's being abused gets looked down upon. As if he's weak for not being able to control his girlfriend/wife.

A man is expected to take the abuse 'like a man'.

Only weak cowards hit women..

Quite a few actually, I know a lot of women who are around 4ft 10 (and I did say slight exaggeration) I'm 5ft 2 and I can imagine a 6ft guy would be able to do a lot more damage to me than I to him. If I was a big guy, I wouldn't ever hit a small girl back, maybe a slight shove at most if she takes it too far but that's about it, only because I would know that I'd be able to hurt the girl a lot more than she would be able to hurt me.
Obviously if the woman is heavier than you and you're quite small then it's understandable, I did say that I think it is fair for a guy to hit a female back if he feels that she's causing significant harm to him. I didn't say hitting wasn't wrong, I did say the girl would be an idiot for hitting you but we're talking about whether a guy would hit the girl back not whether hitting is wrong. It's just like how you wouldn't punch a small child just because that small child was kicking you since those kicks probably would be more annoying than harmful therefore you wouldn't react by potentially seriously hurting them just because they are annoying you if that makes sense. When a woman starts attacking you to the point where she is harming you, then yeah do what you need to do to stop the attack but I don't think guys should hit women back just for retaliation when they know they would hurt the woman more than she hurt them.

Really ?




I've probably seen 100 women hit a man in my lifetime whether it's a slap or w/e, i've probably seen the vice versa about 5 times.

The child alternative doesn't compare.
A child doesn't have years of life experience to know the consequences of their actions.
An adult woman should know what they're doing, and the potential consequences.

A child, for example, will continue to follow and chase a dog until the dog gets annoyed and tries to bite them. By the time you're an adult you've experienced it enough to know not to do it.

Someone who slaps/punches you isn't giving regard for you at that moment, yet a man is supposed to analyse the situation and actually put the lady first?

Where was her restraint?

A child usually does know the consequences of their actions. They'll push your limits and see how far they can test you just like some adults do later on. Most children will know they aren't supposed to kick you and that if they keep kicking you, theres a possibility you will kick back, that doesn't mean you should. I'm just saying don't stoop down to her level. If she hits you and you hit her back, what are you achieving, you end up just looking like a douche who fights with girls (even if you aren't). I just think guys should try their best to take the moral high ground. I also don't think women should put them in these situations, I'm in no way saying that it's okay for women to go around hitting guys not expecting anything back, I'm just saying that decent guys in those situations should try turn the other cheek and leave the psycho alone (unless the girl is attacking them, then they should obviously defend themselves). Hitting a girl for defence = understandable,
hitting a girl just because 'she started it' = not so much. It's childish to resort to violence in the first place, and it's childish to retaliate when you could just walk away. It shows a lot more strength and discipline if you can control your anger and walk away - whether you are a woman or a man.

No response to anything else I wrote? I wonder why...

I still think men shouldn't hit women and that view will never change so that post of yours was little pointless tbf..

Jesus, it's like talking to a brick wall. Because I was saying men should hit women right ?

I'm assuming you are like 15 ? Hopefully you'll acquire more open-minded views when you grow up.

If you're in a relationship with somebody you shouldn't hit them, regardless of gender.