Title IX. Women's suffrage. Equal rights in the workplace. All giant strides forward towards a world where women are , rightly so, equals to men.Now don't get me wrong; I support equal rights for women in EVERY aspect of life. Nor am I saying that women have achieved full eqality already. But let's take a step back and reconsider an inequality where men have been receiving the shorter end of the stick.
One of the biggest no-no's in the world of men is hitting a woman. It's not tollerated by social standards, and is also fiercely prosecuted by the law. I hit my little sister when I was 5 or 6 years old, and have yet to hit a woman since... if for no other reason than I'm afraid my dad will come out of the woodwork and beat my ass again if I did.
But for some unknown reason, women are allowed to hit men. If you saw a girl punch/slap/shove a guy at the mall, your first reaction would likely be, "He probably deserved it." And he probably did, but that's not the point. There have probably been a thousand scenarios where a girl deserves to get hit, but no no no no no no. See my point?
I've recently heard arguments for why girls are allowed to beat men, and I've included my counter-arguments:
- Girls don't hit hard. Ahhhhhh, yeah they do. Especially when they're mad. Imagine if she has a gun or a knife...or a screwdriver.
- Men are tough and can take it. Nobody makes me bleed my own blood. I consider myself decently tough, but I don't like to get raged on either.
- Girls are fiesty/have attitudes, and are allowed to vent. I have an attitude sometimes too, but I've still never hit anyone when I've been mad.
- She is a girl. This is probably the worst excuse I've ever heard. It's like saying Hitler was allowed to kill Jews "because he is German."
One last argument against women hitting men comes from the Ohio Revised Code:
2903.11 Felonious assault. (A) No person shall knowingly... 1) Cause serious physical harm to another.
Yeah, nothing in there that says "except for girls." Maybe all of the police officers, urban socialites, and other dense individuals (i.e. Corrigan) need to re-read that. The fact of the matter is, violence is never the appropriate course of action. It's wrong for ANYONE to strike ANYONE else.
