Nothing says ‘I respect and honor women’ quite like an all-pervasive belief that they can’t take care of themselves and that anything with a vagina could never pose a threat to you because you’re a stoic man.

I was taught punching a woman is the same as punching a toddler

Even if she deserves it. Even if she hits you first. Even if she has a punch like a wrecking ball. It’s how I was raised and it reflects poorly on him, reflex or not. Men protect women, end of story. Maybe I’m an old man, but my mama taught me that if a woman takes a ball bat to you, you can take it away, but as…