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Originally Posted by Cherie

Of course as a woman she can't expect not to be hit, woman are raped, murdered and physically abused at the hands of their partners evey day of the week so it is ridiculous to claim that a woman feels safe due to her gender she was verbally agressive yes but then we don't know what happened before hand to make her react in this way? I am assuming she didn't just waltz up to him and start verbally assaulting him, she was defending herself or someone else maybe not in a controlled way but I doubt reasoning with this guy in a calm manner would have elicted a different response.

Actually coming back to this Cherie, it reminded me of this quote from Margaret Atwood (she wrote The Handmaids Tale) -

"Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine
"I mean," I said, "men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power." "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said. "Undercut their world view." Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood