Judging by the 50 or so other comments of yours surrounding this one... you do. You're trying pretty hard to justify hitting a woman. Your parents must be proud.

Ur the bad-ass looking to knock people out. You do realize there is an enormous level of escalation from someone hitting someone to someone getting knocked out?

The case is more than a few years ago, so my recollection may not exactly match the facts, but:

These hypotheticals are so dumb. Don't hit women, don't try to find loopholes that will allow you to hit women.

"I am all for anyone defending themselves." Here's your problem: She wasn't a threat. If you want to do BS hypothetical situations, I'm sure you could find some occasions where a man could hit a woman would be acceptable, but all of them would imply a threat to someone. She's barely half his size, she's not Rhonda…

Is she actually a threat to you or are you using your status as the bigger and stronger party to knock the shit out of her and make her shut up? If someone is an actual threat, then okay, I can see it, but Ray Rice is a trained athlete who outweighs her by about 100 lbs and has probably 8% body fat. Is she a real…

Fucking of course it does. Neither men nor women should other hit men or other women or children or dogs or tigers or sentient lizard people. If she hits him, she is guilty of assault, the law handles that. He can bench press, what 250? He plays a contact sport for a living do you really not think there is…

I find it ridiculous and sexist that just because someone is a woman they don't have to be responsible for their actions.

we should totally paint women as untouchable maidens, that can't help their emotions. That helps gender relations.

It doesn't fucking matter.

It frightens me that there are people who actually think this way. But regardless of how completely fucking stupid your statement is, regardless of whether she provoked him or not, the issue here is the NFL having the most dicked up disciplinary policies of any league. Nice of them to set the precedent that it is…

Not defend, just minimize and shift focus to what she did.

Because then the excuses will really start to flow.

there is a reason. he's an aggressive shit head with anger issues, which has nothing to do with her actions. you don't need much button pushing to set those kind of people off.

Holy fuck I knew you were an MRA turd.

"'I'd like to see what she did to provoke him"

Not saying it was right of him, but...

No. Not anything you said here is appropriate.