I once dated a guy. Big surprise, I know, but that's not the end of the story.
His "best friend" was the most chauvinistic guy I had ever met. Ever. He talked about every woman he saw as an object of posession. If she was hot, he talked down to her (clearly out of insecurity with himself) and when one girl came back at him for him calling her anorexic, he threw her to the ground.
His staindpoint was, "if a bitch is going to act like a man, I'm going to treat her like a man." (he also told the guy I was with to "control his woman", me, when i was trying to help give the driver directions.) The guy I was seeing drunkenly agreed that if a bitch acted like a man, she should be treated as such. I sat in that car, fuming, and said best friend took notice, and tried to shut his friend up from his drunken rants knowing I was mad. It was so ironic, I could have spit in his eye.
I did not see that guy anymore. He was gentle, but his friend was a horrible person, and I knew he would not choose me over him so I left. He also did not defend me in this whole "woman" comment.
Basically, what I'm saying is, if you need to hit a woman, your mother and father did not do a great job raising you. Yes she is wrong, but you don't have to stoop levels to get even.