Slapping? What do you think?

BinaryShadow · 2008-08-18T14:03:31+00:00

Anyone who resorts to violence to win an argument is doing it wrong. Man or woman.

2008-08-18T05:13:43+00:00

No. For either party.

Legolas-the-elf · 2008-08-18T11:37:26+00:00

I've noticed this before. When a woman slaps a man, it's usually a romantic film, and the woman is portrayed as justified. When a man slaps a woman, it's usually a daytime drama about an abused wife, and the man is a monster.

It's the same with cheating. If a woman leaves a man for another man, it's because she was unfulfilled, the first guy was boring and the second guy was exciting and romantic. If a man leaves a woman, he's a cheat and sex addict. Either way around it's always the man's fault. The "happy ending" is always one in which the woman gets what she wants.

Watch these films and mentally swap the genders. Imagine what would happen if the men acted like the women in these films. It's an eye-opener.

elissa1959 · 2008-08-18T05:13:33+00:00

I watched two popular movies/tv shows last week in which a woman slapped a man. It was the standard 1950s face slap in which the woman slaps, looks completely justified while doing so, and the man stands there looking a bit shocked, but not horrified, rubbing his jaw.

I'm curious to hear people's opinions on this since it's clearly one of those abuses that is (still!) accepted in this day and age ("accepted" insofar as it made it to tv and the movies without either being blacklisted).

Clearly it's a formulaic attack in which a woman in "defending her honor" commits a physical act of violence which, again formulaicly, does not get a violent response.

(added: To be clear, one show, Life on Mars, takes place in the 70's, not the 00's, and might be representing the times rather than the present. The other was the fairly regressive "27 Dresses".)

2008-08-21T22:50:01+00:00

Only on the ass, and only when consensual.

elissa1959 · 2008-08-18T05:54:56+00:00

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Title	Slapping? What do you think?
Author	elissa1959
Upvotes	2
Comments	17
Date	August 18, 2008 5:09 AM UTC (17 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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