I remember when I was a toddler, the neighbor toddler girl hit me in the face with her shoe. When I hit her back, I got in a lot of trouble and was told not to hit girls.
Would have been a lot more sensible if they said "no one should be hitting each other"
The argument usually goes something like “okay a woman is beating on me I’m expected to just stand there and take it because if I retaliate at all I’m the aggressor somehow” like the whole “HOW CAN SHE SLAP?!?” Video where dude has like 20 Indian men come beat the fuck out of him for retaliating
I've seen women hit men as a form of flirting
This meme, while correct, demonstrates a misunderstanding of the argument.
"A man is not allowed to strike a woman, not even in self defense." We live in a society where some version of this is drilled into every male child's brain from a young age.
Nobody making this argument in good faith is gleefully responding to "equal rights for women" with "so I get to hit women", because the fuckheads who want to hit women aren't waiting for an excuse and are not mentally healthy.
Those who are making this argument in good faith could do with much better phrasing though. I prefer "Equal rights should include equal privilege." If self defense against a female asaultant is their only concern, then it sounds like they just want to hit women. There are other issues that can and should be addressed, like a man not being able to pick up their own child or nibling from school without dirty looks or potentially having the cops called on him.
Don't get me wrong, I understand perfectly well that in terms of privilege inequality, women have it worse. Women aren't taken seriously by their doctors, or by the law, or in most contexts really. Women get paid less to do the same work. If a woman pursues her dreams instead of getting married and having kids, that's sad. Women should not have to deal with any of this bullshit!
What I don't know is how to wrap this up with a concise tldr without sounding like a whiny moid.
Legally in most parts it's considered battery, which is worse.
The only other karateka that's ever knocked me out cold was a woman.
Roundhouse kick, right to the temple.
It was like the windows starfield screen saver, but r g b instead of white... then I was on ground, somehow.
Now that of course was consensual combat, kumite, sparring, in a controlled setting.
But if we really wanna get into this topic... tons of women physically assault men, as in, cross over the line from assault to battery. Tons of women domestically abuse their partners.
While 1 in 2 women (50%) report being the victims of intimate partner violence, 2 in 5 men (40%) do as well.
https://www.breakthecycle.org/domestic-violence-statistics/
Something like 85% - 90% of couples in the US are a male-female pair, so yeah, tons of men are physically assaulted by their female partners. Female on female IPV happens, male on male IPV happens, and I'm sure that nonbinary on nonbinary IPV happens, etc. Americans are basically just fucking violent.
I am all for the sexless and genderless standard of it never being ok to initiate physical violence, (outside of something like a clearly mutually consented to sparring bout), and that you should always do your best to de-escalate or simply flee a violent situation, that active self defense should always be a last resort.
Hopefully we can all agree that just as being generally physically stronger is not a valid justification to initiate violence, neither is being generally physically weaker.
Equal rights, equal fights
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