Texas Tech reinstates player who punched woman

Place of champions.

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Another discussion on the equality of men vs women.

He was hit first. Watch the video. That said, both are idiots.

Your "Wow. Just...wow man" applies to so much in this topic, especially the title.

Kind of in line with the above poster. The victim has come forward and said she actually started the fight. I can't tell you if that means she started throwing punches or verbal abuses first. But I think that's part of the reason for reinstatement bc her penalty for the altercation was only a month suspension.

I will say though that while he has the right to fight back, in no way should he be hitting a woman hard enough to break her jaw. At most he should have subdued her till both heads had cooled off.

he should be *allowed* to be reinstated?? 

 

Is this how one subtract by adding??

I've already had discussions with my daughter about not punching football players....

She took a charge.

that he has been suspended for 3 games.

My purpose here is to discuss the reality of life not how men are raised with regard to women. I, like the vast majority of men in my generation, was raised not to hit a woman. Period. As an ideal I think that is laudable. In the real world women do hit or otherwise assault men and when that ends up in court or in front of a college dsciplinary commitee sex must not be an issue. If assaulted someone has the right, and in many people's eyes. the duty to strike back.

While generally men are larger and more physically capable than women that is not always the case. I was in court a number of years ago to get a judgement for a failure to pay. As I waited for my case to be heard a couple appeared before the judge. He was perhaps 5ft 8 inches tall and 140 lbs soaking wet. She was a solid 5'11" and easily pushing 300lbs. Both were in their 20s. He was in court to arrange police protection to gather his possessions to prevent being beaten. She had called the police claiming that he assulted her and, despite the fact that when the cops got there he was a bloody mess, he'd been removed from the premises to protect her. 

The judge, a man in his late sixes, asked the woman if she'd ever hit him. Her response was "all the time whenever he pisses me off".  "How often is that?" "All the time. He's just a fuck up and a beating is good for him". The judge seemed taken aback, perhaps at her candor, but ordered the police to escort him while he gathered his things. Then the case moved on to her request that she stay on his health insurance despite the fact she'd thrown him out.

A friend of mine is married to a woman who is very athletic and while small, maybe 5' 2", in very good shape. He is over 6ft and maybe 220 lbs. He's been taught all his life not to use physical force against a woman so when she gets mad at him and picks up something to use as a club and attempts to beat him, he's reduced to fleeing his own home until she calms down, leaving his children behind. 

People regardless of gender should not go around striking another person. Generally a man should not hit a woman. That said, once she hit him first, he's within his rights to hit back. The real world is not black and white.