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Women who hit men

  • 09-09-2014 10:34am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Got talking about this last night, and the general consensus was "A man should never hit a woman. Never." Apparently you stand there, and you take it like a man and you don't hurt her back because only "little bitches" hit women.

    The girl that we were talking about in question was after hitting her then boyfriend with a glass in the face. He hit her back and gave her a black eye.
    I'd be of the opinion, dead right. When you throw the first punch/bottle then you take what's coming to you, but apparently not!

    Your thoughts?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,142 ✭✭✭akelly02


    Was this in Tullamore by any chance?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    The girl that we were talking about in question was after hitting her then boyfriend with a glass in the face. He hit her back and gave her a black eye.
    I'd be of the opinion, dead right. When you throw the first punch/bottle then you take what's coming to you, but apparently not!

    Your thoughts?

    Glassy mates


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    They sound like a classy pair, right enough.

    Wedding bells in the air?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Bit of a difference between a glass in the face and a slap on the cheek now in fairness.

    Do what ever it takes in the interests of self defence.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭DipStick McSwindler


    This post has been deleted.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭The Purveyor of Truth


    Kelly Brooks is in a little bit of hot water regarding her comments recently:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭GalwayGirl26


    Saw a video once, a social experiment thing, where they staged a woman repeatedly punching a man in public- the crowd just pointed and laughed. Staged a man threatening to hit a woman and a bunch of nearby guys intervened before he had the chance.
    If a woman is going to hit you, you really should defend yourself, simple as.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    Restrain a women, don't box her in the ****ing face, you can hurt Women by simply blocking, squeeze their little wrists,bend their arms behind their back till they calm down etc etc but don't punch them in the face...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,643 ✭✭✭RollieFingers


    Anyone who hits you with a glass in the face is fair game for retaliation, male or female, in my opinion!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    only "little bitches" hit

    Self fufilling prophecy indeed. The irony of that statement and what came around it, but especially that part, the lack of self awareness and double standards.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    The only time it's appropriate to hit a woman is if she's become hysterical, in which case, a couple of open palmed slaps to the face may be necessary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,656 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Comes down to reasonable force, more than anything else. In a lot of situations you don't have to swing a haymaker at someone (guy or girl) in order to defend yourself, more often than not if you have a distinct advantage of strength over someone then there are more restrained ways of achieving the same goal - pinning them or restraining them from swinging again.

    However if it's someone coming at me with a glass in order to maim me or worse, then yeah, whatever it takes fro them to not make contact, regardless of gender....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    It would be sexist to not hit them. What would you do if it was a man that hit you?

    The idea of not hitting a woman is putting the woman beneath you as if she isn't your peer. We are all human and can't have one rule for one sex and another fr the other sex.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    It would need to be a life or death situation before i would raise my hand to a woman


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭The Purveyor of Truth


    Saw a video once, a social experiment thing, where they staged a woman repeatedly punching a man in public- the crowd just pointed and laughed. Staged a man threatening to hit a woman and a bunch of nearby guys intervened before he had the chance.
    If a woman is going to hit you, you really should defend yourself, simple as.

    Yeah, here's that video (thread on it here also):



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,044 ✭✭✭Wossack


    The only time it's appropriate to hit a woman is if she's become hysterical, in which case, a couple of open palmed slaps to the face may be necessary.

    Only if 100% necessary of course. I remember one time, our Martha started talking about Britain going back to the Gold Standard, but it only took some stern looks to get her back


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    If you hit anyone, man or women you should expect to be hit back with equal or excessive force.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Paulzx


    Restrain a women, don't box her in the ****ing face, you can hurt Women by simply blocking, squeeze their little wrists,bend their arms behind their back till they calm down etc etc but don't punch them in the face...


    Anyone that comes at you with a bottle, knife or glass etc. be it a man or woman, is fair game for whatever needs to be done to incapacitate them.

    I don't think i'd be too worried about punching them in the face


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,194 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Regardless of gender, anyone who comes at me with a weapon gets the living shít kicked out of them.


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  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Restrain a women, don't box her in the ****ing face, you can hurt Women by simply blocking, squeeze their little wrists,bend their arms behind their back till they calm down etc etc but don't punch them in the face...

    What if the woman is bigger and stronger, and wielding a weapon?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    It's totally unacceptable for anyone to hit anybody, regardless of gender.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    What if the woman is bigger and stronger, and wielding a weapon?

    Stand out in the rain and shift her.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Paulzx


    What if the woman is bigger and stronger,

    Now that's just nonsense talk...............women are just made of sugar and spice and all things nice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    What if the woman is bigger and stronger, and wielding a weapon?

    Run away :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Paulzx


    It's totally unacceptable for anyone to hit anybody, regardless of gender.

    Lie down and take your beating like a man is the tactic?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    Paulzx wrote: »
    Anyone that comes at you with a bottle, knife or glass etc. be it a man or woman, is fair game for whatever needs to be done to incapacitate them.

    I don't think i'd be too worried about punching them in the face

    This was the man's girlfriend....it was more than likely no surprise that violence would ensue and he was prob more than capable of stopping her picking up the glass and hitting him in the first place, he then decides to throw a haymaker at her and give her a black eye? What did that solve exactly?
    What if the woman is bigger and stronger, and wielding a weapon?

    Then you run away


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Paulzx


    What if the woman is bigger and stronger, and wielding a weapon?


    Your giving me a horn with your durty talk


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭Craptacular


    Regardless of gender, anyone who comes at me with a weapon sees me running for the hills. Fighting against someone who has a weapon is a mug's game. If there's an exit take it.

    You don't hit a woman, you don't hit a child and it's probably best not to hit a man either.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭Franticfrank


    If she came at me with a bottle, fair enough.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Wossack wrote: »
    Only if 100% necessary of course. I remember one time, our Martha started talking about Britain going back to the Gold Standard, but it only took some stern looks to get her back



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Apparently you stand there, and you take it like a man and you don't hurt her back because only "little bitches" hit women.

    This kind of crap needs to stop. Are you not a real man for defending yourself or for retaliating?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Paulzx wrote: »
    Lie down and take your beating like a man is the tactic?

    Nope. Stand up for youeself but don't stoop to the same pathetic level of the one doing the swinging. The minute you hit them back, you're the same as them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 329 ✭✭Corkgirl210


    no one should hit anyone... call the police or do whatever you have to do without retaliating to violence.. two wrongs don't make it right.. any woman who hits a man is just as nasty as any man who hits a woman!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭nc19


    It would need to be a life or death situation before i would raise my hand to a woman

    Getting sliced across the face or an eye taken out are not life or death so by your logic you would let that happen?

    If a woman wants to hit me and ive done nothing to deserve it shes getting knocked out(and a sly cùnt punt if no ones looking!)


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  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Then you run away
    Run away :)

    And if there's nowhere to run?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭Paulzx


    This was the man's girlfriend....it was more than likely no surprise that violence would ensue and he was prob more than capable of stopping her picking up the glass and hitting him in the first place, he then decides to throw a haymaker at her and give her a black eye? What did that solve exactly?



    So its okay for a girlfriend to assault her partner? It's only not ok if she's a stranger to the man. Same as it's ok for a husband to hit his wife but not to hit strange women on the street?

    It's absolutely not right that anybody should strike another person.........but sometimes circumstances dictate you need to act in self defence. Obviously you have no right to beat the **** out of someone in self defence.

    Would i be able to punch a women in the face in self defence? I don't know. I've never done it. However, i don't have a moral objection to someone doing it in self defence if the situation required


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭The Purveyor of Truth


    The only time it's appropriate to hit a woman is if she's become hysterical, in which case, a couple of open palmed slaps to the face may be necessary.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Restrain a women, don't box her in the ****ing face, you can hurt Women by simply blocking, squeeze their little wrists,bend their arms behind their back till they calm down etc etc but don't punch them in the face...

    Nuts to that, If anyone starts swinging their fists at me, I'm going to respond in kind.

    The notion that women aren't capable to causing injury to men (or other women) is absurd.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    And if there's nowhere to run?

    Take out your roasary beeds and say a couple of decades.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭Soft Falling Rain


    Nope. Stand up for youeself but don't stoop to the same pathetic level of the one doing the swinging. The minute you hit them back, you're the same as them.

    You can have the moral highground, I'll console myself with keeping an eye or not requiring surgery.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    Paulzx wrote: »
    So its okay for a girlfriend to assault her partner? It's only not ok if she's a stranger to the man. Same as it's ok for a husband to hit his wife but not to hit strange women on the street?

    Yes that is exactly what i said...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,194 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Regardless of gender, anyone who comes at me with a weapon sees me running for the hills. Fighting against someone who has a weapon is a mug's game. If there's an exit take it.

    You don't hit a woman, you don't hit a child and it's probably best not to hit a man either.

    It's not always possible to "exit stage left" fairly lively, unfortunately. I am of the view that there is no reason to attack me, no excuse for it, it is completely unacceptable to me and I refuse to be injured because some degenerate has anger issues or is just having a bad day. I will hurt them in the process of putting them down and disarmed as quickly as possible, and gender does not enter into it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Restrain a women, don't box her in the ****ing face, you can hurt Women by simply blocking, squeeze their little wrists,bend their arms behind their back till they calm down etc etc but don't punch them in the face...
    ...and if she's still gig a broken glass bottle at you?

    Women who think "ah it's grand to hit men, sure they're bigger than us and so they're not allowed him back" just as vile as men who batter their wivea/girlfriends. It all boils down to being complete cowards at the end of the day.

    A woman losing her restraint during a very heated argument is another matter if it's completely out of character and in response to some outrageously rude comment made, but it's still no more "right" than a man slapping a woman in that same very heated argument.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    Skid X wrote: »
    Nuts to that, If anyone starts swinging their fists at me, I'm going to respond in kind.

    The notion that women aren't capable to causing injury to men (or other women) is absurd.

    I can see it now, a woman hits you and you punch the head of her, very classy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    I can see it now, a woman hits you and you punch the head of her, very classy.

    If she's causing injury to me, I'm going to punch her back until she stops.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Iranoutofideas




    Watch to the end :eek::pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,144 ✭✭✭DVDM93


    Restrain a women, don't box her in the ****ing face, you can hurt Women by simply blocking, squeeze their little wrists,bend their arms behind their back till they calm down etc etc but don't punch them in the face...

    More often than not them kind of restraining movements will result in more pleasurable physical confrontations too ;) so it's a win-win really.

    Don't get hit, get your bit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Barely There


    What if the woman is bigger and stronger, and wielding a weapon?

    Run like fook!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    Billy86 wrote: »
    ...and if she's still gig a broken glass bottle at you?

    Women who think "ah it's grand to hit men, sure they're bigger than us and so they're not allowed him back" just as vile as men who batter their wivea/girlfriends. It all boils down to being complete cowards at the end of the day.

    A woman losing her restraint during a very heated argument is another matter if it's completely out of character and in response to some outrageously rude comment made, but it's still no more "right" than a man slapping a woman in that same very heated argument.

    Again, i never said it was ok for a women to hit a man? And you kind of hit the nail on the head with the last point, this women hardly just decided hey i'm gonna smash this glass over ,y boyfriends face for the craic, something was obviously done or said to provoke such a reaction


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