Exactly. Might I also add that while many anti abortion people say it's acceptable if the mother's life is in danger...why is it now so many doctors (especially OB and ER doctors) have to be so fearful of prison or loss of licence even with proof of the mother's danger? Or when there is proof of miscarriage with no chance of it reversing, and the mother is left to bleed out until the "heartbeat" is gone. Laws have become too restricted vague for the exceptions. You can't allow exceptions then turn around and make those exceptions impossible to happen. Edited to fix my restrictions and exceptions mix-ups

In some states they even require the husband's permission! I'm in Louisiana and technically still married to my ex. I had uterine cancer and needed a hysterectomy they wanted me to break a restraining order to have him come in with me to agree to sign off on a hysterectomy. I said f@ck that and went to another state which is sad that I had to do that but yeah women have no say over their bodies at all.

Churches, etc. are businesses. They are in the business of religion and should be treated as such. Agnostic business must pay taxes so should those with beliefs.

It's called The Golden Rule - He who has the gold, makes the rules.

This made me laugh. I think this person must be fun to be around.

A few years ago on a chat show here in the uk, a young man was on telling his story about how his girlfriend was physically and emotionally abusing him and how it drove him to consider jumping off his balcony. People in the audience were giggling at him until the presenter snapped at them.

I'm a dude, was married to a violent woman, half my size. Took almost daily beatings. It was painful, but mostly mental pain. Obviously I could've defended myself, but I just can't hurt a woman. It's the most pathetic thing a man can do. One time she started whipping me with a phone charger, broke a skin on few lashes. I pushed her back, knowing there's a sofa behind her, on which she landed. That's all I did. From that moment I was a wifebeater. I filed for a divorce soon after.

I have stepped in between a man and woman where the woman was the aggressor and instigator. She tried to hit me. I told her to do it. I hit back. Her husband wasn't and wouldn't. He told me he appreciated it but that she was bipolar and off her meds. I immediately understood. My mom is bipolar but never violent but I've seen it many times in other people. We began to try to calm her down but police were called and they asked me to leave. She was taken to the hopsital and admitted. (Small town + Facebook) Step up. Abuse is abuse. And you might be able to help diffuse a situation and protect someone, even temporarily.

On the one hand, yes, I agree. We should not ignore, nor should we minimize (and especially we should not make a joke of) domestic violence against men. Hitting me is not okay. That said, I do feel there's a difference in magnitude here between the effect of a woman hitting a man vs a man hitting a woman. A person can hit me. Doesn't mean I have to retaliate.

I once thought, “There is NEVER a reason for a man to hit a woman!” Then my dad punched my egg donor, once. He broke her cheek. Before you rear up in outrage… she was trying to stab him in the throat with kitchen scissors. Violence against anyone is never funny, it should never be tolerated from one gender against another just because you can hit harder. Nowadays, my POV is if she is trying to physically hurt or kill you, you have every right to self defence. Dad was lucky. She refused to press charges. Mostly because I told the hospital staff (with her sitting right there) who were urging her to go to the police, that if she did, I would take my 3 younger siblings who witnessed her attack on him to describe what they saw. Their attitude did a 180, she didn’t enjoy her stay.

I agree that self-defense is ALWAYS morally correct. BUT if you get slapped and your response is to PUNCH them and start kicking them once they're down, that is not self-defense: it's abuse. And keep in mind that -generally-, a man will be able to punch harder than a woman, so a "she punched him, he punched her" scenario is -likely- to be unequal to begin with. A lot of abusers like to use "self-defense" as their excuse as well.

If a man gets beat up from a woman, then another woman should help the man and fight off the other woman.

I was taking a bus home from work one night and we all witnessed a woman beating the c**p out of this man on the street. Everyone was laughing, but my heart was breaking because no one should be subjected to that type of treatment. I honestly feared for his life at one point because she threw him into traffic...thankful that the car was able to stop in time. People walking past and the people just standing there watching did nothing to intervene. Sometimes I hate people.

I have seen this and agree completely.

Although I was raised to nevere hit a woman I have to say in some instances I can at least understand this one!

Case in point my nephew's ex, & her mother along with mom's girlfriend were constantly beating my nephew and when the cops showed up the women played the victim card... even with neighbors and family all as witness against them. One cop even told him to "man up"and take it like a man... I told the cops partner what the hell, it was then they finally started to realize the truth.

This needs to be higher.

See this in tv and movies at times. Always annoying.

44yo man was killed by his "wife" and mother-in-law 2 weeks ago in my country. He was fighting for his right to be part of their child's life. Truly sad. Violence is violence and must not be tolerated.

In real life? I guess I've never seen it, but I haven't seen a man beat a woman up either in real life. See it on YT videos and X.

Have yall seen that true crime case where the guy was constantly getting physicall, mentally, and emotionally abused by his psycho wife and it was all recorded on their security cam; then one day she was literally punching the s**t out of him and threatening him with a baseball bat and he shot and killed her. They charged him with murder. I can’t remember what happened but the man never raised a hand to her and she beat him all the time. He finally had enough.

Yeah, If a woman hits me she should be prepared to take some, too.

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Women abuse and even kill men but the only DV resources are for women and the whole system is biased against men, portraying it as only a problem for women.

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It just depends on who is bigger and stronger in that situation, the man or the woman.

I had a 21 year old mentally disabled kid on disability who complained about people living off the government. Kept telling him that he was the one. Of course if he understood that he would not have been on disability.

If he was a single dad he would get all the praise in the world, but a single mom is just kind of normal, even looked down on in some instances.

Lol, this one is pretty funny too.

Likewise antisemitism (or prejudice against any other religion) is not okay, no matter what your religion is.

I always found the football fans weirder than the cosplayers.

Agreed, it happens and it's unacceptable but also when reversed it's often - she's 16, she knew what she was doing.

Yup. I have yet to see this being said to the person creating the drama. It's absolutely always applied to the innocent party to make them shut up!

Yup

Also it's completely normal that a company sees employment as a business transaction (which is true), but if an employee sais they're there for the money they're seen as too materialistic and having not enough passion for the job.

I know this is a joke, but it's hilarious. OR ... is it a joke?

USA/Israel/China/Russia anyone?

I wanted to be a teacher once I am so very glad that I did not