As we can all see...
There are many people, who stand on many sides of this particular fence, some sit on it so to speak, and clearly others seem to deny the fence is even there.
I think that what we can all agree on, is that men ( Generally ) are stronger than Women ( Generally ), and that for a man to hit a woman, can only be justified in some curcumstances.
What I see is that after 7 pages of posts, that we still dont have a clue as to where the line in the sand is, and everyone is simply pointing out their own ideas on when it is or is not acceptable for a man to hit a woman.
I think that the law stands back a lot on this one, and fails to protect those who need protecting ( Male or Female ) and often simply turns away... Especially in the case of a Husband v Wife scenarion, where the police will 9 out of 10 times, simply not bother at all, stating that its a domestic, and will only actually come to the aid of anyone if there is a life threatening situation.
Lets go back to the basics...
Should a man hit a woman?
Should a fit and heathy average male, hit a woman, who is clearly smaller and weaker than he?
Should a 6 stone weakling man, hit a 15 stone polish shot-putting woman?
The answers to those are quite clearly NO and YES as far as I am concerned, its not like *** 6stone guy can actually hurt the shot-putter is it? Or, is it?
Similarly, if an average sized woman, started to lay into an average sized man, then, has that man *** rights to hit her? - Well, yes. If you are being attacked, then you do have the rights to protect yourself, however, if that woman was clearly a fraction of the size of the man, then for that man to hit her, would be unacceptable purely on the size issue. He can, if the need arrise, slap her in a kind of short-sharp-shock to calm her down perhaps, but to actualyl punch in a manner as to hurt her, then thats wrong.
Its a very fine line I feel.
I will though put one thing forward, and that is, that if I ever found out that my wife was seeing anyone behind my back, I would never hit her.
Id hack her head off with a shovel, but Id still never hit her.
There are many people, who stand on many sides of this particular fence, some sit on it so to speak, and clearly others seem to deny the fence is even there.
I think that what we can all agree on, is that men ( Generally ) are stronger than Women ( Generally ), and that for a man to hit a woman, can only be justified in some curcumstances.
What I see is that after 7 pages of posts, that we still dont have a clue as to where the line in the sand is, and everyone is simply pointing out their own ideas on when it is or is not acceptable for a man to hit a woman.
I think that the law stands back a lot on this one, and fails to protect those who need protecting ( Male or Female ) and often simply turns away... Especially in the case of a Husband v Wife scenarion, where the police will 9 out of 10 times, simply not bother at all, stating that its a domestic, and will only actually come to the aid of anyone if there is a life threatening situation.
Lets go back to the basics...
Should a man hit a woman?
Should a fit and heathy average male, hit a woman, who is clearly smaller and weaker than he?
Should a 6 stone weakling man, hit a 15 stone polish shot-putting woman?
The answers to those are quite clearly NO and YES as far as I am concerned, its not like *** 6stone guy can actually hurt the shot-putter is it? Or, is it?
Similarly, if an average sized woman, started to lay into an average sized man, then, has that man *** rights to hit her? - Well, yes. If you are being attacked, then you do have the rights to protect yourself, however, if that woman was clearly a fraction of the size of the man, then for that man to hit her, would be unacceptable purely on the size issue. He can, if the need arrise, slap her in a kind of short-sharp-shock to calm her down perhaps, but to actualyl punch in a manner as to hurt her, then thats wrong.
Its a very fine line I feel.
I will though put one thing forward, and that is, that if I ever found out that my wife was seeing anyone behind my back, I would never hit her.
Id hack her head off with a shovel, but Id still never hit her.
