GroverCleaveland wrote...
I'll make one of my rare returns to SD for a second because this is an issue I've actually talked about recently.
I'm going to generalize OP's question away from 'thug girls' and reinterpret the question as
"Should I hit a woman who is physically attacking me?"
And the answer, as with all real questions, is this: It's complicated.
I'll try to handle a few possible angles of the question to give a full response, the first of which is the moral question: "Is it okay to hit a girl?"
I would say yes. If an able bodied woman attacks you, and the
only available option is using physical force in self defense, then I would stand by its moral justification.
If the girl is weak enough that they pose no actual danger to you, and are not causing injury to your person, then no, it is not okay to retaliate with full physical force, but this is true of any situation, and not just of women. In ANY attack, if you are able to subdue the attacker with superior strength without causing excessive harm, then that is almost always the best option.
If an attacker is stronger than you, is using excessive force, or has a weapon and cannot be disarmed peacefully or run away from, then REGARDLESS of gender, race, or reason, I believe it is ones moral right to defend their personal safety (or in some cases the safety of others) to the utmost of their ability. If one is the first to make a situation physically violent, then one must be willing to face the consequences of that, man or woman. That doesn't mean you get angry and beat this person down for attacking you, it means you do what you must to make sure the situation is no longer dangerous, and then do your best to leave it like that.
Okay, so in MY opinion it is morally justifiable to defend yourself with force, regardless of the gender of your attacker, but that's not always the case. In some cultures and groups, the hitting of women is simply not justifiable. There are many cases of men defending themselves against women, only to be attacked by a crowd of people who are enraged at his actions. "How can she slap" is a good example, and a cursory search of the internet can reveal similar instances. These values are deeply ingrained in some people's heads, and so this brings us to the next question:
"Regardless of my moral justification, SHOULD I hit a woman?"
This is a more complex situational answer. Are you in a place where defending yourself with violence will call down more violence upon you? If so, is there a better way to end the situation? If you are being attacked in public, odds are you could do something to get away, or get enough people to subdue the attacker without harming them. Are you alone with the attacker? Then you can defend yourself. Are you surrounded by the allies of the attacker, who will likely do more harm to you in numbers if you harm the original attacker? Then you're in a shit situation and I have no real advice for you. Sometimes life is unfair. Sorry.
There is a commonly a deeper problem with these "thug girls" that they are trying to cope with. Maybe they are being abused at home, maybe they were brought up wrong, but in the end they have some need to use violence against others to feel powerful. Does this make their actions justified? No. Does it make them understandable? Maybe. If you can, simply avoid ANY situation where violence is the only way out.
If the only possible solution to the situation involves you defending yourself, then you can do that, regardless of the genders of any party involved, but the deeply held beliefs about directing violence towards women that may be held by any persons in the crowd may make hitting a girl a very dumb move for your personal safety.
I know a few methods to hit or press to inflict massive pain on someone without full force or injuring them (although they will feel like I am hurting them very badly)
as for the being abused or brought up wrong I was both yet I don't feel the need to lord myself over everyone in a physical manner
on top of that people can try to fight me if they like however most the time I only use a fraction of my fully physical hitting strength in a gut instinct retaliation but if more then one person attacks me for me defending myself I would react with full force with lethal intent tell me how many men would keep fighting after they hear the screams of pain after iv beaten down the first man? how many more would start to run when they see the flash of silver when I pull my knife out? how many would be stupid enough to continue to fight me when they see the streak of blood from the first slash or stab to know I am serious?
trust me I have no fear of what the group thinks I would be more then willing to kill them all or even die defending my rights or what I believe in. basically don't start crap with someone who has these beliefs they will fuck you up regardless of what gender you or they are.
but that's typically not how I normally handled things I usually had a women with me if a girl slapped me I slapped her back then I let the girl that was with me handle it(usually a women I trained myself in hand to hand combat but occasionally just a friend that was good with her fists)
as for the surrounded by allies of the attacker bit well... you've never been in a free for all have you? I have, trust me it doesn't matter how many there are once people start seeing blood from other people getting brutally beat down thinking someone got killed they start to run
put it this way
you are with friends and a friend gets hit your friends all jump up to defend the one who got hit then some of them get thrown or beat down and the attacker just keeps hitting them even while they are on the ground with blood on them you gonna rush in? or try to get away fast as possible thinking of what to say at your friends funeral hoping you don't have to plan your own? sorry if that sounds a bit much but im just sayin people scare easy and if they don't well hell more fun for me I love a challenge
btw I'm not saying the dude is actually dead but try to watch a guy get clocked just straight nailed to the ground knocked unconscious while hes bleeding and tell me that fucker doesn't look like he just died. I'm just saying dude