[ferretchucker]

So pretty much from the age you can understand words, it is drilled into people's heads that a man must not hit a woman. In all fairness, violence towards either gender tends to be frowned upon, but of all of them be it girl vs girl, boy vs boy or even girl hitting boy, boy hitting girl is the most socially unacceptable one.

But a story my friend told me got me thinking. A few months back, my friends older brother was in a club when a woman walked by and felt his arse. He turned around and said "Easy tiger" so she smashed a bottle over his head. In response, he head butted her. After being turned on by a lot of people and asked why he did it, his response was "If she wants to act like a man, I'll treat her like a man."

Listening to it, his actions seemed fair enough to me. She had pretty badly assaulted him and he wasn't gonna sit back and take it. I don't think he should have just let it go because she was a woman. Then I thought about it more and I got those feminist groups into my head, who insist that women are complete equals to men, and should be treated as such. But then, when a man hits a woman for a justifiable reason, they spring on him for being evil. Bit of a double standard, don't you think?

So from this, I think I've come to the conclusion that if a woman has done something in the way of violence that a guy would hit a guy for, it might be okay to hit a girl. After all, if I was walking down the street and some girl started punching and kicking me and it hurt, I don't think I'd just let her carry on just because her reproductive organs are inside her. Obviously, I'd try to run like I would if it were a guy, but if I see no other solution than violence, I'd fight back.

Thoughts on the matter?