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Originally Posted by optimisticcynic

Noone should raise their hand to anyone, but I struggle with the outdated sentiment that a man should never raise his hand/voice to a woman, whilst attacking Dappy for his inability to acknowledge equality. Made me chuckle during the Dappy/Luisa argument: everyone acknowledged he was wrong for saying women could not do what men do, whilst stating that a "real man" would have walked away when she stood screaming in his face.

You're right no one should raise a hand to anyone absolutely but I think it seems worse when it's a man against a woman because of the obvious physical differences, that's biological and never going to be equal, men, generally speaking are alot stronger than women and a woman would find it very difficult to defend herself against a man who was attacking her