Why do some men think equality is about having the rights to beat women equally?

[SavinaV]

This is what I've noticed on some sites lately. Every time the subject about what are equal rights come up, a couple of these men come up with ''that means I can beat women nowadays'' or ''so when can I have the rights to punch a woman''.

 

Or they throw the word equality whenever they want to excuse to for let's saying slapping her back and saying ''it's equality time (b word)''. Not really done in self-defense but in retaliation for the sake of throwing that word. I believe in self-defense but not just doing it just to get even.

 

Sounds like pure bitterness. That isn't what having fair opportunities was originally about. Honestly if this is how far equality got then I hate it. I like the word equity better.

Edited June 26, 2017 by SavinaV

[SavinaV]

Let me add that just recently some male poster on youtube has tried to excuse beating a wife that cheats because it's now equality. He threw that word.

 

I agree one should have equal opportunities to report an abusive partner and have them send to jail. I don't agree this should be turn into a contest on who gets more rights to punch one another.

Edited June 26, 2017 by SavinaV

[aileD]

That's just stupid thinking. He's just trying to be obnoxious

 

Violence isn't ok no matter who does it

[basil67]

Savina, please don't spend too much time considering the opinions of online trolls. You're already giving them more brain space than they deserve.

[preraph]

It's just men you want nothing to do with anyway. If violence is the first thing that comes to mind when they think of women, well, steer clear of that idiot.

[amaysngrace]

A man and a woman can't physically fight equally. Men are naturally stronger so your best bet is to tell your brother or cousin or dad that your BF punched you. Maybe tell all three.

[Sweetfish]

Let me add that just recently some male poster on youtube has tried to excuse beating a wife that cheats because it's now equality. He threw that word.

 

I agree one should have equal opportunities to report an abusive partner and have them send to jail. I don't agree this should be turn into a contest on who gets more rights to punch one another.

 

 

If you search the internet for negativity you will find it... so why are you searching for it?

[SammySammy]

It's just as wrong as women thinking they can hit men and should not get hit back.

 

Maybe we should teach both women and men it's not right to hit others.

 

Don't hit and you won't have to worry about why some men feel they have a right to hit you back "equally".

[carhill]

I've been following a case which occurred this past week that underscores what's going on out there...

 

https://youtu.be/a1jHeNmkQdc?t=5m1s

 

Note, the lady, a restaurant owner, with the black eyes was beaten by a woman and her daughter was closed fist punched by a man and knocked down, all over the attackers not being satisfied with their food order.

 

I've only been punched by a woman once; she also tried to knee me in the nuts. Anyone who says women are the weaker sex haven't encountered one in a full-on psychotic rage. Knocked me back and the woman in question was in her 80's. Of course I didn't hit back; she was my mother.

 

I think the guys who advocate 'equality' in this are either promoting some political agenda or are tired of being beaten on without recourse or recompense. For a long time the law sided with women in physical altercations with men. I definitely know it was commonplace when I was young, likely due to the long pass men received prior for using corporal punishment on their wives for 'misbehaving' or rubbish like that. Now things are enforced more equally. Women who think physical violence is a solution they'll get away with because of gender are less likely to succeed in that goal. Men who think equality is having rights to beat women equally, same. There's enough violence out there. Sheesh.

[thefooloftheyear]

Frankly I have never heard it before...(guys saying that they would punch/hit a woman in the name of equality)...Its a ridiculous thought..I think another poster has it right...Just some idiots trolling to wind people up...

 

And the fact that you started a thread about it means it worked...Don't give them the satisfaction of getting in your head...

 

TFY

[The Urbanyst]

If a woman hit me and it caused an actual injury I might hit her back.

 

The argument that men can do more damage has always been idiotic to me. The way I see it, a lion can do more damage to me if I punch it right? So why would I punch a lion?

 

If you hit someone (or something) that can do damage to you, you deserve whatever you get back. No exceptions.

[guest569]

 

Maybe we should teach both women and men it's not right to hit others.

 

We don't do this already??

 

And yeah OP, the people that jump straight to that train of thought are very messed up. The reason it is distressing is that they are not just "online trolls". It is a reality.

[basil67]

We don't do this already??

 

And yeah OP, the people that jump straight to that train of thought are very messed up. The reason it is distressing is that they are not just "online trolls". It is a reality.

 

No, it's not a realty. Men who hit women would do so even if gender equality wasn't a thing.

[Chilli]

Same ,never heard of it , sounds ridiculous.

Unless there's a helluva lotta guys out there getting abused and hit by their women

[Els]

This confuses me. Men don't have the "right" to beat another man either - it's called assault and they would do time in jail if they just walked up and socked another man. Nobody has the "right" to beat anyone else regardless of gender.

[elaine567]

It is about fear and the loss of control.

 

OK so you want equality do you?

I will give you a black eye if you want equality.

Still want it now?

I thought not.

[tetrahedral]

This confuses me. Men don't have the "right" to beat another man either - it's called assault and they would do time in jail if they just walked up and socked another man. Nobody has the "right" to beat anyone else regardless of gender.

 

Ya, for me, these discussions about equality in physical conflict really just underline how much latitude society gives us men to mess each other up.

 

It's not that women are being exempted from the rules. It's more that women get the rules that are consistent with existing in a civilization, and men are being exempted from normal rules.

[knabe]

I've never actually heard a man say what you write. BUT I've heard plenty of men deflect EVERY conversation about domestic violence and rape back onto women. Or respond to every post about something a man did wrong by whining "women do it TOOOooOOOOoo!"

 

So yeah, I'd say there's some sort of adolescent whiny resentment going on at times.

[SavinaV]

I've never actually heard a man say what you write. BUT I've heard plenty of men deflect EVERY conversation about domestic violence and rape back onto women. Or respond to every post about something a man did wrong by whining "women do it TOOOooOOOOoo!"

 

So yeah, I'd say there's some sort of adolescent whiny resentment going on at times.

Yeah. It sucks there are those bitter extremists.