Holy shit. Your side note should be included in the article.

She took all she could stand, and retaliated. Where I went to school, the guys would have laughed at “Tom” for what happened, and he would have also probably had been the butt of jokes for a week or so at school. Of course, this was back in the 1980's, because in this day and age, his parents would probably sue.

Might that music video have been “Invincible” by Pat Benatar? That song was part of the soundtrack for an 80's movie “The Legend of Billie Jean” about a girl on the lamb who also kicked a-hole guys in the nuts with supreme force and accuracy. I laughed at that like you did: ‘Haha, that douchebag got what he deserved…

As a dude, I’ma give her a pass. This is like you’re complaining that the lion shouldn’t have ripped your face off after you poked it with a stick for a year. Sure, he may’ve just batted it away the first 50 times, but 51. . . watch the fuck out.

NO, it’s not. Don’t normalize unwanted ass grabbing.

I don’t give a shit about how much a ball punch hurts. Any man who gropes me without my consent is getting his balls kicked up to his throat.

I’m sorry, but this is just bullshit. I have balls. Big balls. MAN SIZED BALLS. I’ve been kicked in the balls. I’ve accidentally sat on my balls. I’ve accidentally injured my balls doing stupid things that teenagers do. It’s not that bad. This whole, “it’s the most unimaginable pain ever” argument is just wrong. As an…

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 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 can’t understand how you know how bad it feels to get kicked in the nuts, but also how childbirth feels. It sounds like you haven’t been kicked in the dick enough in your life.

What kind of logic is yours? Seriously? How about the man who fucking sexually assaulted me will never understand the pain he put me through over and over again? So what should be done to him? What is the equivalent of that pain?

You know, after, what, dozens? hundreds? of sexual assaults—and let’s be clear, by law, that is what grabbing someone’s butt without consent is—I have no problem with this. She was defending herself from ongoing assault and gaslighting, and that’s what she came up with.