A 212 pound professional football player in top physical shape honed by an exercise regimen including weight training knocks out a 115 pound drunk woman with his fist. Is that proportional to the threat posed by this woman? Get real.
A 212 pound professional football player in top physical shape honed by an exercise regimen including weight training knocks out a 115 pound drunk woman with his fist. Is that proportional to the threat posed by this woman? Get real.
I used to use the analogy of a person claiming a caged bear is dangerous, even though it appears docile. So they poke it with a cattle prod until it finally growls and slaps the prod away, at which point they exclaim, “SEE?! I TOLD YOU IT WAS DANGEROUS!”
I got news for these people. Humans are the most dangerous animal on the planet.* Antagonize them at your own risk.
*Except metrosexual males, of course.
Odd line of reasoning, IMO.
So violence must always be responded to with proportionate force and no more? A small person is entitled to attack a larger person and not suffer the consequences of his/her poor judgment? When did that become a rule of law?
Do I approve of what he did? Nope. I don’t think a man should strike a woman under any but the most extreme circumstances.
But let’s at least be clear that is what is at issue. It’s not that he responded with violence to a violent attack by a smaller and less powerful person. It’s that he hit a woman. Nobody would have cared in the least had he unleashed similar force on a similarly size man, or indeed on any man at all.
So the issue here is simply one of chivalry, though nobody wants to admit it. Which to my mind doesn’t align well with the notion that women should be treated exactly equally with men at all times. Much less that they are such frail and delicate flowers we can send them into combat.