sorry, this isnt the 1970s and i didnt say beating/assaulting or any of the stronger connotations youre implying
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Haven't read the thread.. but here's for the guys who feel the need to defend his image because he has tattoos.
Yeah, you did. What do you think a backhand to a woman is if it isn't beating or assaulting? If you were to be seen by a policeman backhanding a woman it would be beating/assaulting. What do you mean by the 70's? Was that a time of a lot less abuse against women or something? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just don't get the implication about the 70's. Sorry about my lack of 70's knowledge.
no i didnt. beating/assaulting someone has stronger connotations to actually beating someone down, with fists, perhaps. a backhand is a simple slap. and sure, it is classified as assault under the law but is completely different, imo, from using fists to beat someone down. similarly, i dont think it's child abuse if you slap the child when s/he's being bad (though not with enough strength to harm the child more than superficially). and, to be clear, i was just using the 70's to note that women today are very different from women from which these 'dont hit a woman' ideals were born. but this is just an observation, not that i actually experienced women from the past. i just know that women today can be very obnoxious and physically 'threatening.' women are equals to men. they can harm men as badly as men can harm women so they shouldn't be treated any differently. if you think differently, than those are your ideals. some ppl dont agree with the death penalty but i wouldnt hesitate to pull the trigger on a murderer... but these are my ideals.
Damn I live in Canada and people from here are like Americans in terms of the ''beating woman'' subject. To y'all it's like the ''worst'' thing on heart like if women were some goddess that can do what they want and a male can't do nothing about it. I'm not for beating women and things like that but maybe she threw something or said something very bad. Once in a club, a man touched the ass of the girl dancing near me and she thought it was me. At first she threw me her alcool that she had in her glass in my eyes. I was like damn but not going to do anything beside insulting her, then she threw the whole glass in my face. I ran up on her and punched the hell out of her. I mean, it's not because she is a woman she can hurt me physically without any paybacks. Maybe something similar happened to Barnes.
Truth is women know that if the police get called no matter who started it or who dished it out, the man will look like the bad guy. There are plenty of abusive relationships where the woman is the aggresor but what man is going to call the cops about it? Women know this and use it to their advantage. I used to be in the camp of you should never hit a woman either. Women may not punch as hard as a man but they do have a tendency to pick up whatever is laying around and throw it at you. I know from experience and have a 6 inch scar from a knife a psycho ex chucked at me. When you have a blade sticking out of you gushing blood and she is still trying to punch you, it can be difficult to show restraint towards the "weaker" sex.
yeah!!dude like women feel they can hit any man they want and get away with it...and man can't do nothing about it...if a women came up 2 me with bat...something that can kill me...im not going to stand there and let me hit me...ima kick her ass!
I was with you up until the bolded part. You're now trying to justify giving a woman a beat down because she says something you don't like?
Not only that. He said he wasn't "going to do anything beside insulting her." So he said something bad to escalate the conflict and he thinks she shouldn't have thrown a glass to him. Talk about double standard.
You couldn't have left? I'm not saying the man has to do nothing, but to me it's ridiculous to think hitting a woman is OK. Obviously if it will save someone's life to hit her, it's probably not going to be such a bad thing. But other than that, I don't ever see a need for it. I've seen plenty of violent women, sometimes in high schools they are worse than males when it comes to violence, threats and intimidation. It doesn't change the fact, that a male shouldn't strike a female. That goes back farther than the 1970's, and has been part of being a gentleman for hundreds of years. People are definitely allowed to disagree with me, but I know I would never want to be on the side of an argument in which I was saying it's ok to hit a woman. I think I'll almost always choose the side that argues against that.
