Unless you’ve been repeatedly sexually assaulted and have had people brush it off as no big deal, you have no idea how much damage it can do to your psyche. If ALL you get is kicked in the nuts after assaulting a girl or woman for the upteenth time, consider yourself lucky. I used to go for the nuts until I took…

It’s the first:

i don’t get what you’re trying to argue.

Yea. I I don’t know from gender theory. Imf just saying that if some dude was doing this to a girl - and dudes did literally exactly this to girls in HS - and suddenly the men were all clutching pearls that she hit back at a place we’ve all hit at and been hit at, I’d be surprised. I Iwas an unpopular kid, so its…

My daughter once “beat up” a boy with her bra. He said something gross to her, she called him on it, he doubled down with more gross ... and she pulled her bra out from under her shirt and hit him over the head with it. My daughter is 98lbs on a good day and her bras are 99% padding so it was basically a one-sided…

I grew up with a bro of a brother and a...father. They drilled it into me that it’s the single worst thing you can do. They also both defended Jian Ghomshi, so...

You’re ignoring the fact that women and girls who retaliate in even small ways face the risk of escalation or violence in response. For millennia women have been taught to accept men’s behaviour as a matter of course. One dumbass teen getting hit in the balls in response to repeated assault doesn’t seem at all out of…

Punching someone in the nuts in self-defense is not sexual assault.

Men don’t get harassed sexually or touched inappropriately in general. Most of us think we’d like it, but don’t realize that nobody likes to feel small.

I get where he was coming from, at the heart. The issue is in the essential difference between how men and women interpret the world and the actions of people in it. Men don’t get harassed sexually or touched inappropriately in general. Most of us think we’d like it, but don’t realize that nobody likes to feel small.

As an owner of a pair of balls, I endorse your right to kick any balls that need kicking. A ball kick is sort of like a picture in its word value.

The thinking in your first line is basically the same as saying, “Well, if she had sex with me once, she should have sex with me again.” A person has the prerogative to change their mind about anything at any time.

It wasn’t just a one time thing. It was repeated groping. Could she have done something else? Probably. A few times in high school I had to put a little pressure on a guys’ nuts as a warning that they needed to stop groping my breast. If they hadn’t heeded that warning you can bet your ass that pressure would…

I once got kicked in the crotch by my own brother. I was 11. And no one told him that you don’t do that to girls.

I hit a boy in the balls with my lunchbox once. It wasn’t as hard as it could have been because I was holding back. My dad was proud of me for doing that because the boy was an asshole. Both of my parents wished I actually hit him as hard as I could.

Listen, “if you don’t want to get punched in the balls, don’t touch women when they don’t want you to” is a good rule of thumb for life. As someone who has both acted like an asshole and been punched in the balls for it, I’ll give this a pass. It sure as hell taught me a lesson.

No.

I mean, I get that she thinks the violation of anyone’s genitals in a violent way is unacceptable....but yeah I’ll have to ask her if she’s evolved on the ball-kicking=rape issue.

This is so good. And mirrors so much of what I feel. Hopeless and angry and just so fucking full of rage at the class of men that I don’t know what to do with myself.

I'm shuddering with that realization. He was her father at one point.