hmm recently me and my .. guy? damn it, I don't want to call him boyfriend. Guy-i'm-casually-seeing/hanging-out-with.. >.> ok, he needs a forum name.
anyway, we were watching this movie with a bunch of bounty hunters and one of them is this girl who is all tough and such. A guy teases her about that and insults her, and she just looks up and punches him in the face, breaking his nose- and he wasn't some nerd, he was a well built guy. It was a scene that kinda established her "bad ass" cred. But after we watched the movie, we were saying.. if the genders had been reversed, that wouldn't be considered a "cool" thing to do.
why?
dunno. but I figure it might have something to do with the fact that women are generally weaker than guys. Not all of them, of course.. and winning a fight also has to do with training and agility rather than pure strength... But in general, I'd say the majority of boyfriends could physically overpower their girlfriends.
So it's not a matter of intelligence like voting or working, etc, is. It's just an unchanging fact. So maybe the idea that guys shouldn't hit girls stems from this? ideas?