I can only condone violence against strangers when done in self-defense. Otherwise I agree with you 100%, especially regarding hypocrisy. You will find many posters who condemn in the solemnest manner any violence against women, then gaggling with glee when a woman bites a man's testicles off.
Vince, what about the proverbial 'fighting words'? Is that a justifiable category anymore?
Here is one example; when I was in the service I knew a black man that was trying to break off a relationship with a white woman. He avoided her as much as he could, but she would occasionally find him as she knew he had to be at certain places at certain times.
One day she started a confrontation with him and he tried to calm things down. But she knew the buttons to push, and she pushed them hard. Finally she dropped the 'N bomb', shouting, 'Who do you think you are? Your just a F***ing N***er!'
Now this man was a sergeant and she was doing this in front of his men, openly disrespecting him in the most egregious way, then that last phrase; it was just too much for the guy and he slapped her. He didnt draw blood, or bruise her face - it was just a stinging slap that shut her up, which is what needed to happen.
I think he was totally justified.
I know of a case where a guy was playing basketball and a woman had been harrassing him for weeks for various reasons. She would call him names and ridicule him and nothing he could say to her would get her off his back.
He goes in for a layup, and she runs out on the court and yanked down his shorts just as he jumps up. He was shocked and humiliated and slapped the woman several times. She fled crying and never bothered him again. She suffered no serious injury, but the man ended his torment when she went over the line and physically touched him inappropriately.
Another case for justifiable slappage in my opinion.
Today both those men would have gone to jail, and that is absurd, but we will live in a society that is dominated by PC ideology and it dominates the thinking of even conservatives.
Violence is always wrong? So John Wayne was an abuser?
For a man to act like a man naturally is prone to act has been criminalized today as part of an effort to 'deconstruct the patriarchy', and conservtives are being duped into supporting it in cases like this.
But people can read it for themselves right there on CNN - a man doesnt even have to touch a woman now and it is considered 'abuse'.
And is it a wonder that we are seeing marriage rates drop and divorce rates climb?
We need to return to common sense values and drop it with the broad sweeping generalizations and remember that real life has a lot of gray areas and a lot of exceptions to any general rule.
But that is the design of the laws and terms used in this case, as the feminist radicals are hoping to see innocent men jailed in an effort to diminish male influence in society.
But dont get mad at me; I am just calling it like I see it.
On this forum? Most of us are horrified by any such violence.