Post by @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com

@sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com

2026-10-27 09:41 UTC

The only other karateka that’s ever knocked me out cold was a woman. Roundhouse kick, right to the temple. It was like the windows starfield screen saver, but r g b instead of white… then I was on ground, somehow. Now that of course was consensual combat, kumite, sparring, in a controlled setting. But if we really wanna get into this topic… tons of women physically assault men, as in, cross over the line from assault to battery. Tons of women domestically abuse their partners. While 1 in 2 women (50%) report being the victims of intimate partner violence, 2 in 5 men (40%) do as well. breakthecycle.org/domestic-violence-statistics/ Something like 85% - 90% of couples in the US are a male-female pair, so yeah, tons of men are physically assaulted by their female partners. I am all for the sexless and genderless standard of it never being ok to initiate physical violence, and that you should always do your best to de-escalate or simply flee a violent situation, that active self defense should always be a last resort. Hopefully we can all agree that just as being generally physically stronger is not a valid justification to initiate violence, neither is being generally physically weaker.

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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-10-27 10:09

Hopefully we can all agree that just as being generally physically stronger is not a valid justification to initiate violence, neither is being generally physically weaker. Yes, and water is wet. The source of this silly argument is not men arguing that it’s ok to assault women or initiate violence in any way. The original argument was about hitting back when being assaulted by a woman. It was a common believe* that you could never hit a woman, not even when you’re being assaulted. Then the "equal rights’ folks started saying “equal rights? so I can defend myself when woman attacks me same way as when a men does?”. I have no idea where the “you can just assault people” argument came from. I assumed it’s just a joke. *at least where I was growing up

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@dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-27 15:21

Not to derail your excellent points about violence almost never being the answer to conflict, ESPECIALLY in personal relationships… But is it wrong that I immediately thought you were referring to the Jordan Mechner classic game ‘Karateka’ from 1984?

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@dreamkeeper@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 17:11

Why the fuck can’t you just admit that male on female violence is far more common and far deadlier than female on male violence? Why are you trying to play this false equivalence game? You aren’t helping anything with this. Violence bad, wow how insightful.

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