Should guys hit back if a girl hits them?

Yes, Kaitlin... That's what I was trying to get at in a way...

Of course, I was looking more to the "play fighting" thing, where, just about every girl I know uses the "I'm a girl, you can't hit me back!" excuse. Never have I seen a girl hit another guy, without that phrase accompanying it. I am dead serious, too.

Anyway...

~Ciao Lipton

We hit boys, boys hit back. Thats the way it is here.

Well except for my 5'3 friend who is constantly abusing and attacking her 6'7 boyfriend. Teehee they look so funny together. And thats only cos her bf is a gentleman.

Thats the way it is WHERE?

That isnt how I was raised to think, sorry.

Whats funny is that I was raised to THINK something and I was shown the exact opposit at home by my father and mother. I was shown that boys hit women; which is unacceptable. Especially if she did not hit him first.

My mom stabbed with scissors ;)

Hell No!!!

Are you a guy or a girl?

I do think your perception is mildly, if not hugly skewed though, I will admit to that.

I was slapped by my dad once when I was younger. But I think I totally deserved it. I was being such a b!tch and I had been doing it for like a month...

Sometimes I think people deserve to be slapped. But a guys slap is the worst because it's almost like a punch with the whole hand... do you know what i mean?

does this included gay men?

NO NO NO NO NO. any guy who would hit a girl back (unless she is coming at him with a dangerous weapon and it's self defence lol) is a total fucking bastard. My mum left my real dad when i was 2 because he was violent. Then she met my 'dad', and he seemed so lovely and all...4 years later he was beating my mum up. I had to see all of that, i would have to stand in the middle of them and try to protect my mother at the age of 8. I know not all guys are like that, but any guy who hits a girl other than self defence is no man at all. My dad isn't as violent now, but we still have to walk on egg shells sometimes. But, we're moving away from him soon YAY. But yeah, no way, a guy shouldn't hit a girl back unless it's for a damn good reason...u get the jist.
Gurdy x (GoddessOfWings)

See Lipton I tend to disagree :o) (again lol)

The moment a "man" raises his hand to a woman he loses to respected title of a "man" and officially becomes a bitch...

Sorry but if you read my first two posts in relation to this argument you'll see my entire pointof view I can't be bothered to retype, a woman should be restrained but never hit by a man...also see Kaitilins post cause I couldn't agree with her more either :o)

Well, I stick by my thoughts anyway.

A woman shouldn't hit a man in the first place.

I mean, sometimes a man needs to be slapped across the face. However, I know plenty of girls/women that need the same thing.

Apparently, no one here gets that there are plenty of women, that can beat up plenty of guys. It doesn't matter if men are stronger than women (or supposed to be, anyway). If a woman trains to box/lifts weights/whatever, then she can easily overpower a man. In fact, I know some girls that work out, just SO they can overpower, and beat up men.

~Ciao Lipton

no

Lipton, we're talking average women and average men, refer to the above statistics I posted.

There are exceptions, but general rule of thumb: If you hit a woman you are no longer a man.

It threatens their physical and emotional security in a way that it doesnt threaten a mans when she does the same thing.

We have established that there should be no physical abuse between the sexes, but it is of the utmost importance that a man not hit a woman for reasons beyond the physical infliction. Perhaps men cannot understand.

Sometimes women may deserve it, just as men do, but it's important to consider the ramifications that the action will have on deeper levels for her and how she will interact with men in the future.

no. what you have to understand is if a girl hits you she is probably trying to push you away for her own reasons. when she hits you she needs to feel secure so if its your girlfriend tell her you love her or give her a hug. it will make her feel alot better and she wont hit you (unless you deserve it)

i think if a girl hits a guy she should be expected to be hit back no matter what if thats not what she wants then she should not of hit him in the first place everything nowdays goes in favour for women what about the guy that get beaten up by wifes gf

I tend to agree with the fact if the girl hits first then a guy should at least try to restrain himself from bodily harm, but if she keeps going then at least hit her once to get ur point across. I am a girl, and well I have a lot of guy friends. We tend to hit each other quite a bit too. But the only reason why the hit me is because they know i can take it plus they know i'll hit them back, and we also do this when we are together lifting weights in the weight room. so i guess that's probably why...not sure

Even if a guy did decide to hit a girl back, he shouldnt pummel her with all his strength.

It depends, but 90% percent of the time, definetly not.

Guys, you might be offended when I say that, but look at the facts:
It's common knowledge that men are naturally physically stronger than women no matter what. So, when a woman hits a man, it's most likely not going to hurt anything but his pride and ego. the reasonable thing for him to do would be to suck it up or bitch it out, but nothing physical against the woman.

Second, it depends on what you define as "hit"
If the woman slaps him across the face, no. That's hardly considered violent. So, if the man slapped back, it would hurt a hell of a lot more and the woman would probably just get pissed off or cry and something would start, so definetly no in that case.

If the woman hits the guy with an actual closed fist with all her body strength and creates actual harm, then I think the man has a right to hit her back. There's a difference between meaningless violence and self defense. Bottom line, I don't think the man should hit back unless the woman was life threatening or causing serious injury.

No way, definatly not!!!!

only if she kicks him in the nuts.. or in my case.. if i get stabbed with a pitch fork..

yes

JJ:

Well, what if the girl is a real scumbag? It's only fair..men and women should have equal rights.

True, but the thing is though.... it never happened before.... so when is it going to start...? Women weren't allowed to vote, you used to have to be a white man to be able to run for president.... that's all sexist. I mean, I'm not saying anything to offend your comment, but it's just not going to happen when all people are going to "equal" and about the comment on "if a girl is brave enough to hit a guy, she should be brave enough to accept the return" or something like that.... you can't really say that. Mostly, women are more fragile then guys... and a women usually doesn't hit a guy unless there's a reason... when a woman is sexually abused.... then that's a reason.... but I honestly can't see that there is any time that it is okay for a woman to hit a man.

A guy should never hit a girl, unless shes actually really hurting him like trying to kill him or somehting! other than that shes weaker than you are so dont touch her lol

For any guy who answered it`s o.k. to hit a girl back...You are pu$$ies....you can defend yourself without striking a woman or girl...its called leaving!!! Fu*kin idiots!!!

So I got this from a different forum that I just joined, and I was curious to see what other people thought of this. It is www.intellectualwhores.com/forum if anyone wants to go there, for the most part it is a bunch of bitter men who long to get laid, but here goes:

" We don't care that a snake is the way it is because of it's genetics, we'll kill it all the same. Nor do we care that a child will naturally be loud and greedy and misbehaved, we punish them and change their behavior.

Same with women.

Quite true indeed. However for reasons beyond our control we are easily avenged (and imprisoned) by women who are angered by our (non violent) actions.

A high percentage of rape accusations are later reneged (25%-90% depending on year and jurisdiction) after the female is confronted with a lie detector test. (Meanwhile the man has suffered public humiliation, legal fees, and possible job loss.)

In some jurisdictions merely stating "Hey toots" in public to a stranger woman can get you charged with Sexual Harassment.

These are not innocent until proven guilty charges. The police are taught and encouraged to charge the man despite any lack of evidence.

The same goes with stomping your foot on the ground and yelling at your girlfriend. These are grounds for domestic violence charges.

Further down the line, you may have a bloody face and decide to call the cops because your GF is going nuts only to discover the police (in now 99.9% of cases) are forced to take you to jail and charge you.
You are the primary aggressor (larger of the 2 posing the most physical threat) and thus guilty.

The point of this is exercising our natural masculinity to keep a woman in line can be dangerous if with the wrong woman.
Government intervention is not necessary in relationships.
Many emotional reactions by women are later forgotten, yet an undeserving night in jail by a man can likely end an otherwise good relationship .

The institutions of Domestic Violence and Child support are mere bureaucratic institutions supporting a growing number of employees who have lobbied along with feminists for expanded definitions of these terms.

Rape is now inappropriate touching

DV is now yelling at a woman

Sexual Harassment is now yelling something in public at a total stranger.

As we as men are slowly losing our freedoms one law at a time, we are also losing our right to freedom of speech.
Our society and relationships are greatly compromised because of excessive Gov't intervention"

if i was a guy id hit a gurl.. i dont take shit from no one..

I'm posting again to make this thread rise to the top because I really want commentary on my above post.

Especially considering there are a lot of feminist-esque people here and more females than men.

Well, one thing that I must say about the dumbasses on this board is that they are not chauvinist. The dumbasses on the other board ARE, and this is the way that they interpret the law.

I dont think it's true, it was just somewhat shocking that people thought this. I also wasnt really as interested in what people thought of the LAWS, but the opinions stated about woman's nature, like when they related women to snakes for instance.

You know, I think that spelling correctly makes the world a better place.

So I want to thank JPM for his faithful service ;)

I agree (for the most part)

ok i haven't read anything but the first question but my opinion is ....................HELL FUCKING NO! not just cuz i am a girl, i don't think a girl should hit a guy either becuz that would be the thing that probably got him mad in some circumstances and anyway if a guy hits a girl it means he is messed up in the head or something becuz that is not right at all......what about talking what ever happend to that? instead of hitting?

I only read half the post. It is considered physical abuse to restrain someone, (pin someone on the floor etc.) no I am not kidding. Equal rights!? umm...that's a really lame excuse. "yeah, I gave her a consussion cause she slapped me and I wanted equal rights so I, umm, punched her." Ahuh, that'll go down well. I really don't think it's right, it's illegal either way though, so it's not like it matters...

Besides, it has nothing to do with equal rights, it has to do with right and wrong.

yes, people have different views, but I think you all are forgetting the one big factor:
the physical difference

if a guy hit another male, and the other male hit back, none of us would have a problem with it considering that since they are both men they will most likely have equal bodily strenght, therefor the man who struck the other in the first place posed as a threat, and the man who hit back had a self defense cause.

however: if a woman hit a man it's a complete different story considering she is not going to have near as much physical strength as the man, therefor does not pose a threat to any physical harm, and if they did brawl the outcome would be on the man's side considering the bodily strengths are no where near equal.

that was an obvious statement, and I shouldn't have had to add it.

Tamar...

that's not stereotypical, that's evolution. I have no idea where the hell you've been.

There was a huge discussion on this earlier, no matter what a guy is going to be stronger than a girl (unless the girl happens to be someone like Serena Williams, but even then they're most likely to have equal strength)
I have yet to have seen a girl who was fully, extendedly, physically stronger than a man.
show me proof that I am wrong and I will apologize, till then I suggest you study the difference in bodily strength.