Putting her in a sharpshooter works. Make sure she taps out.
It will also cause some confusion in martial arts class with my daughter. She had to chase one guy into the corner to get him to spar. But then his problem was fear, not chivalry.
I believe the author’s point was to focus on not developing the habit of hitting a girl/woman. That’s different from a childhood standpoint, because it is important to develop the right impulse so that you don’t end up striking your pregnant/new mother wife, who has that degree of vulnerability involved when pregnant or recently given birth, dealing with your new child can be frustrating, but anger control is important. Otherwise, I am not going to discriminate based on gender if someone breaks into my home at night, but at the same time, I am not going hit my wife, my toddler daughter, or my infant son, just because something stressful is going on.
Many neanderthals here agree, if a girl tries slapping you, knock her out as a defense.
Never hit a strange girl, I say. My sister, for instance, often had it coming. Hit in retaliation, and hit with equal force; you don’t need to escalate. But only so long as it’s a game. If it gets serious, and it can quickly—you know girls—bail out.
In self-defense, of course, hit them. I don’t know anyone who says males should allow themselves to be killed, maimed, or humiliated just so that he doesn’t have to strike the opposite sex. That would be a sort of “zero tolerance” gentlemanliness, and we don’t play those idiotic games.
I agree
I’ve seen some grizzly bear black women fight and I sure wouldn’t just sit there and let them beat me senseless
Plus I had a pretty small...and very pretty crazy woman attack me with a knife once....
Yep...its well intended advice...I give it myself but with caveats
How old are you? This isn’t rhetorical. I ask how old you are because I am trying to imagine under what circumstances a grown man would be hit by a “girl”.
I’ve instructed my sons to defend themselves whatever the threat. If that means putting five knuckles to some physically abusive chick, so be it.
No, you don’t blur the moral Truth in young children-—you tell boys NEVER to hit a girl. Otherwise, you blur morality to situational ethics which is paganism and demonic and destroys the most perfect ethic system in the history of the World: Christian Ethics. It created the Age of Reason, Chivalry and Romance-—and created the most Free and Just cultures in the history of mankind for all groups.
If boys are in a life and death situation their Natural instincts will take over—you don’t need to worry about that. You teach them to defend against other boys-—how to fight.....since evil always exists. If it is used against a “girl”, there better be really good reason for it. Boys should feel guilty for having hit a girl-—for shame is essential to any moral societies. Boys will always be able to rationalize the hitting anyhow—that is human nature.
Never say never...what if you go to a bad part of town, and a gang of female feral youths start attacking your 9 year old daughter?
That’s what I taught my son. If someone attacks him, man or woman, and not a slap in the face, but with intent to do grievous bodily harm, use full force to protect himself.
I agree. Although the author is right that men, typically being stronger, cannot hit a woman as readily, nonetheless the same basic rule applies: If someone is hurting you (or clearly is about to hurt you), do what is reasonably necessary to stop it. Sometimes, unfortunately, it means hitting the other person.
I can fight as good or better than most men I dated before marriage. I am not abusive and don’t like to fight, but if I were of that aggressive mentality, a man would be nuts not to fight me in self protection.
I had an aunt (she’s dead now, bless her heart) - a drunk - who used to beat up her husband regularly. When I figured why Uncle Jimmy was always bruised on his legs, arms and face, I cried. Divorce was not a realized notion or option in those days.
Yes, if a girl hits you, hit her back. Don’t put all your power into it if it is not necessary to get the point across.