It's not cowardly to defend yourself. That guy defended himself. Could it have been handled better in retrospect? Possibly but in the moment it wasn't as bad as the "I would never hit a woman" crowd are saying. Know what would be bad? If Jolly Green Giant went UFC on her ass after the first punch or if he went UFC on her when she tried to get a second shot on him. The guy held back. He stood his ground. He could have done far worse damage to her. At worse she probably has a black eye that's probably already healed by now and at worse is turning a nasty shade of yellow. But she also knows like everybody else that if you're not welcome somewhere and are asked to leave and there's a big guy in a green hoodie working security blocking the entrance, you should probably listen and leave like every other person that exercises common sense. The fact that she wasn't welcome anymore in the restaurant meant that the front door should of been a wall to her. Apparently there was enough noise and harassment coming from the woman that security had to escort her out and they had to open the door. Her act of violence at the guy may as well have been the same as running full speed into concrete wall and being mad that the well stood its ground and gave her a black eye. Stupid p-ussy wall for standing its ground. But nevermind that. Let's assume jolly green giant is a 15 year old woman of smaller stature than the blonde in the video. This same fifteen year old does the same amount of damage with her two punches in self defense that Jolly Green Giant does. All of a sudden it seems less bad. How about if the blonde had a knife on her or a sharp weapon? Would self defense be justified? What if Jolly Green Giant has a special condition that makes his testicles even more sensitive to a swift kick in the sack than the average male? Like what if blonde woman kicked him so good in the jewels that he couldn't procreate? We're talking prison time for that blonde then. Would a punch be justified then?
As if you could, coward. LOL! Then after you knocked out all of the white knights you would use your ninja skills to hide and when the police showed up, you'd take them all out, and then you'd pick up their bodies and throw them at any witnesses knocking them out and giving them amnesia while you walked away after putting in a good days work. LOL
defend himself from what? Someone who wasn't going to be doing any serious damage to him no matter what? It is cowardly to hit a woman, especially when she's half your size. To me never hitting a woman means never hitting a woman. I understand that she started it, and people love seeing someone pay for something when they are in the wrong. Because he didn't hurt her worse doesn't make it okay to hit women. If it was defending a life then it would be justified. The woman wasn't capable of giving him a sterilizing kick. That just wasn't possible in the situation.
I'm a progressive who wants change. But I never would like to see a change when it's great for men to knock women half their size through a window. What kind of twisted mind wants that?
I think it would have been better to see him do an evasive or defensive maneuver to defend himself. Something like flipping her on her ass while she attempted to kick him. I think there's a difference between a hold/defensive move and knocking a girl's lights out.
++++++++++++++++++++1 I'm in completely agreement with you right there. Sometimes, I look at women and even men sometimes ... and I wonder what the hell they are doing initiating, instigating, bullying, or trying rile up some random person. Carrying on with a rather petty matter. Not knowing that this anonymous individual could be of the following: deranged crazy carrying a weapon (gun/knife) a person of influence (you put your hand's on a district attorney or even senator's or judge's friend/family member ... you are going to be doing some time ... the other person could seriously paralyze you - it may not be the smartest idea to go up and harass a group of cross-dresseing men ... who may turnout to be trained MMA fighters...regardless not the smartest thing in the world to challenge six men to fight in whatever wardrobe). In this case, it's definitely not the smartest move by a small woman attempting to kick a man that large in the groin. That's like trying to kick a horse in the groin, how many people would be dumb enough to do that ... Oh God, let me stop.
I like how you keep mentioning size What if it was a man the size of that woman throwing the punches, he wouldn't have done any serious damage to the big guy either, does he not have the right to defend himself either or is it okay now that it's a small sized man instead of woman. and your idea of so called restraining her isn't even practical, lets just say he grabbed her and pushed her out of the door, you think it will actually stop the woman from coming back in and continue throwing punches at him.
So in the same case, if you have smallish 14 year old kid who starts provoking or attacking a very large 40 year old man for no reason. The 40 year doesn't use any kind of resistance, because the kid is too weak to harm him. Yet out of nowhere, the kid hits him in a blind spot or a sensitive area...he suddenly backhands the 14 year old through a window. I have to continue to say that people are animals, they are going to react violently or escape in a tense situation ... that's what animals do . . . fight or flight. I do not know why people think that type of behavior is completely irrelevant to humans. For every stimuli, there's a reaction ... it's a natural course of action. I'm not condoning pre-meditated or constant violence against a woman in any circumstances... it does not make you a greater person for "having balls." It's not about being manly or feminine, it's more about being mature and not getting a reaction out of people (egging them on).
Look, I agree the guy was in the heat of the situation which is why he isn't as bad as people sitting around comfortably cheering the guy on from their laptops. At the same time one thing that humans have is the ability to rise above base instinct. So I would hope the big guy would have done that. Also I didn't say to use no resistance. I said he could stop the blows and get her in a hold, bear hug, grab her arms etc. The guy certainly could have done that and not been out of line. The woman attacked him, and she attacked first. I just don't think even that excuses a guy beating a woman. Obviously that's not the popular opinion here. So we can disagree.
I mention size because it's a factor. It's one of the reasons professional fights have weight classes. I've said that even a small sized man shouldn't hit a woman. It wouldn't be as bad, but still bad. When you restrain someone simply pushing them away negates any advantage you had from restraining them. Why would he do that? That was never an idea I had. My idea was that he would restrain her, and hold her until law enforcement came, or she was able to get a grip. That's not impractical at all. You can defend beating a woman all you'd like. You're entitled to do that. I'm going to disagree with you.
Dude shouldn't have hit her. It was clearly a reaction, not a measured action. Would be easy to grab her and toss her out of the building.
Lol yeah, he should have gone outside of the building to bear hug an animal and be surrounded by her animal friends. Here's the brawl outside the restaurant directly after the girl got Hulk Smashed. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bEsmEYEHbgk?list=UUhqK-v0ifcFU_rAalRLddow" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Those people look capable of civil discussion. And that they would stop attacking Jolly Green Giant if he asked them politely.
Well no one is saying that punching her was the best idea. But make no mistake, in the heat of that situation any person has the right to use their hands to retaliate, whether the hands be clinched or not.
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That's exactly how I saw It, he retaliated. He wasn't defending himself from her, especially after the first kick! When you feel threatened the first thing you do is try to protect yourself or you retreat, he did not take a defensive posture or take a step back, he stood his ground! Why?...because he didn't feel threatened! That's when his lack of self control got the better of him! "How dare you kick/punch me you little #@%$! That's when he threw a semi-jab and the "fight" was over! The funny thing about the video that no one is mentioning is the reaction from the people there, immediately after he hits her and she breaks the window, no one outside attempts to go after him (fear? the guys huge), yet he was immediately held back by the people inside the restaurant (he did wrong, and they didn't feel threatened by him). ....... ....... .......
