History of Feminism

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While it is true that, as a general matter, men have greater upper-body strength than women (and that as a general matter, women have greater lower-body strength then men), I do not think it should matter one whit, either in law or in societal beliefs or expectations, that it should be deemed worse that a man act violently towards a woman than a woman acting violently toward a man. Both are bad and one is not inherently worse than the other.

I remember back in my college days (back in the 80s), on a night of club-hopping with friends, seeing a scene of a woman waylaying on a man, fists to face, kicking, the whole nine yards (had to be someone she knew, a date, a boyfriend, something, based on the things she was yelling at him). He was cowering, trying to protect himself, and then, he struck back. Immediately, a group from the street that had been watching this descended upon him and beat him even worse, yelling, "Dude, you don't hit a girl!" And the man was arrested. Not only was the woman not arrested, she suffered no opprobrium whatsoever from the crowd that was watching this horrible scene.

I'm sorry, but that's a double standard that favors women that I can't accept.