If a woman is hitting me....I still won't hit her.

[Xithras]

94. The gender of an attacker is irrelevant to me.

If someone is hitting me, I'm going to hit them back hard enough to stop the attack. No more force, and no less force. If a woman is slapping me, I'll slap her back hard enough to make her stop. I'm not going to punch her with my fist because that's probably more force than is called for. If a stronger woman is coming at me with closed fists and is actually doing harm, I'm going to respond in kind, up to and including the point of injuring her. The other person chooses the level of violence and force involved, not me.

Violence is always wrong, but the right to self defense is absolute. If someone is assaulting you, the right to fight off that attacker and defend yourself shouldn't be open to question. If a woman does not want to be struck, then she should not be initiating a violent physical confrontation. It is no more acceptable for a woman to hit a man than it is for a man to hit a woman, or a man to hit another man...and neither gender should have to suffer physical abuse because of societal expectations.