Originally posted by Kafka
Your behaviour says everything about you, not someone else’s actions.
So the initial hitter should be the scumbag, not the person who hits back. If a bully at school beat up a kid and the kid finally snapped and hit them back, is the kid now the scumbag for defending himself?
I don't have a horse in the race and haven't ever hit a woman but also I've never been hit by a woman either, mostly because I've never been in close enough proximity for one to hit me, huehuehue. No I just don't provoke people to that extent and have barely even gotten into a shouting match with a girl let alone a physical altercation.
Ultimately I think the eye test is the best judgement. I can certainly see where it could be a scummy thing to do if a girl angrily slaps a guy twice her size and he just instantly full on smokes her in the face and knocks her out, even if out of "self-defense" that would still probably be considered pretty scummy, as opposed to a girl genuinely punching you in the face repeatedly begging you to do something and then you just give her one hard deck to the DOME (the actual head), maybe even if it wasn't absolutely necessary, you can't really blame the guy.
We have to admit that we just sort of made up this guys can't ever hit girls rule and it became this norm to the point that any justification for the rule being silly just automatically paints you as being a complete asshole, but we should at least be honest enough with ourselves that regardless of your gender, sometimes a person does things that deserve for them to be hit. It generally has to be pretty extreme, but nonetheless, nobody should be immune and your gender shouldn't give you a magical pass.
I think we're all aware of the girls that will use that pass as an excuse to act like a crazy bitch screaming and hitting and doing whatever the fuck right in a guys face trying to provoke them, knowing if he does anything that everyone would look at him as the bad guy, and that's kinda fucked up. Those are the girls that...I won't say DESERVE to be hit, but, if they get hit, the guy shouldn't be looked down upon.
Bill Burr has a funny little segment on it and even he's still trying to be politically correct by saying we should NEVER do it but obviously there are reasons why we would want to or should.