Imagine the gender roles in this story are reversed
and you'll see just how warped our attitudes are to violence between couples - mine included. My initial response was along the lines of 'go on Becky, smack the bastard'....until I thought what the reaction to this tale would be if it were told by a bloke about a girl.


EDIT my ex has done things to me that more than warranted a good stomping, from animal cruelty and forcing me to break down my own front door to going for me with a knife. But as a 6'2" bloke, imagine if I had?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 13 May 2009, 15:56, 2 replies)

I have a friend named Joe who received much the same treatment as I did from his girlfriend
and put up with it for about 5 years as he didn't want to rock the boat as he loved her. This is despite her putting him in hospital twice with broken limbs and a hairline fracture to his skull once.

I'm not allowed to go near her, despite my non violent stance now just in case.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 13 May 2009, 16:00, closed)

Couldn't agree more mate
Womans Lib, Equal Rights, Equality.....things that woman like to pick and choose from.

"Yes, we want A,B and C, but we can't be arsed with D, E and F"

If i was living with a male friend, and we were having a heated argument, or 'lively discussion' and one of us stepped over the line and said something reprehensible...the course of action would be one telling the other that if they said that again, or reiterated it, then a punch in the chops would be forthcoming....

...apologies and hand shaking would probably follow quickly

or

...if the insults were uttered again the smack in the mouth would be duly delivered

easy peasy

however, having a 'lively discussion' with a member of the opposite sex can be much more complicated and fraught. Partners especially know exactly the right buttons to press and will do so with glee and mild enjoyment, safe in the knowledge that physical violence is not an option....this means that the verbal bile increases and increases with no boundaries.

I have known woman who have deserved to slapped, just as i know men who deserved to be slapped....so what is the difference, the crime or the gender.

But yes, its bullish and 'right on' for a girl to stick up for herself and mete out justice by way of a roundhouse or two, but fuck, if i wrote a story about how i kicked the fuck right out of my wife for giving me a STD, well, i think we all know what the outcome would be.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 13 May 2009, 16:52, closed)