Can i hit girls

Your boss. Hooking up with your boss is only hot in theory. Anyone to whom you are a boss. And speaking of subordinates Trust me when I say that everyone at the office talks about that guy, and not in a good way.

Not only is it desperate and creepy; they have thousands of fitter, tanner, and more energetic options at their school. The bartender. The barista. The barista is also paid to be nice. People who are paying you to do a job. Anyone who is working in a sexy outfit. Please, for the love of God, leave women who are working in sexy outfits alone. It regularly urges its followers to protest against female-focused businesses as well as not-for-profits and charities supporting female survivors of family violence.

In June last year, the organisation hit the headlines when it urged its members to troll the Facebook page of Brisbane company Tradettes after owner Helen Yost posted she was seeking to add another female plumber to her staff. The day after the Tradettes trolling started, the same organisation urged its members to turn their focus to the Avid Reader Bookshop and Cafe, also in Brisbane. And the trolls attacked , leaving the ubiquitous one-star ratings and negative reviews.

Hundreds of missives along these lines rolled in until word of the attacked leaked out and social media users across the country took the situation into their own hands.

The only way to nip this in the bud is to turn the review portion of your page off, something most owners are loathe to do as positive reviews can lead to better profit. THE organisation behind this trolling has a web page stacked to the gills with articles opposing feminism.

Within days of the page being removed its owners had started a new one. Its other site — a closed Facebook group — has more than 11, followers. A quick glance at its members list shows the vast majority are male.

In social media terms its follower figures are small, but this organisation could still use its influence to make a difference in the lives of the thousands of men who are attracted to its ethos.

In Australia, guys have rough ride. There is no doubt about this. If you are male, chances are you will die at a younger age than the women in your life. Men are more likely to suicide than females, they also have poorer health outcomes, they are more likely to be killed in road crashes or to be murdered, they have higher rates of alcohol, drug and gambling addictions and there are more males in our jails than females. Our society has major expectations for our blokes.

Many people still expect men to fit certain stereotypes, including what it means to be a father. Even in , blokes are encouraged to work hard and long hours to care for their families and the cost to them is spending precious time with their children and partners.

Instead, they use their power to cause division between the genders, almost always focusing on the one thing that is more likely to kill a woman than accidents or suicide — intimate partner violence.

This is despite all the reputable data clearly showing that, yes, it is a gendered issue because women are the primary victims of violence at the hands of a current or former partner and men are the primary perpetrators of this violence. Batman : The villains' girlfriends never get involved in the fights, Batgirl never gets hit, and in one especially goofy moment, the villain uses a gang of schoolgirls to capture Robin, knowing that he's "too much of a gentleman" to hit a woman.

Revealing exception: In "The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra", Batgirl actually takes several punches When discussing Lydia, Mike in Breaking Bad regrets carrying out this trope and even calls it sexism, stating that he wouldn't have given her the same mercy had she been male and points out that she is just as dangerous, if not more, as most male criminals he has run across.

Jesse then immediately takes up where he left off, which Mike also points out. While Michael hits back, he apologizes when he lands blows and is clearly being entirely defensive in his approach. There's also the complicating factor that Michael and Fiona are in love with each other. There's an interesting scene in "Friends Like These" when Michael, worried about Fiona who is unknowingly with an assassin , channels his fear for her into a slap, maintaining the cover in a Kick the Dog moment for him.

Interestingly enough, she's pissed and he apologizes profusely, despite previous episodes depicting them as having no problem hitting each other, and treating violence as foreplay.

In the episode "Friends and Enemies", Sam tries to warn a biker chick to quit hitting him and doesn't fight back at first, but he finally gets sick of getting beaten and clocks her right across the face. Chuck : Played with: Enormous bully: I don't fight girls. Anna: Neither do I. Evil Female Agent: You wouldn't hit a lady, would you?

Agent Well, no. Evil Female Agent: Good. Jackson: I'm not gonna fight a girl! Miley: Good. Then this should be fun. Raquel: You wouldn't hit a girl, would you? Eliot: [in Hebrew] Not unless she hits me first. Gordy: You see, Ned, fighting a girl is a lose-lose situation. Ned: What do you mean? Gordy: Well, if you lose, [starts laughing] then you got beat up by a girl! Ned: But what if I win? Gordy: [sounds horrified] Then, you just beat up a girl. Colby: A little help here?

Nikki: Punch her! Colby: [indignantly] She's a girl! Nikki: "Girl" must mean something different in Idaho.

So what I did was sorta okay, because the worst thing you can do is hit a woman. DJ: How come it's not okay to hit girls but it's okay to hit guys? Dan: Well, you see, Deej Here's the deal: It's not okay to beat up anybody, it's never okay to beat up women, but sometimes it's less not-okay to beat up somebody who beats up somebody you love.

DJ: What if a woman beats up somebody you love? Dan: Hey! Are you at all interested in knowing where babies come from? Dax: I hope you're not going easy on me because I'm a woman. If it makes things any easier, think of me as a man. I've been one several times. If I lose, everyone will say I got beat by a girl and rip on me for the rest of my life. Either way, I lose. A metaphorical example: Gruen Nation commented that in the leadup to the Australian Election , the Coalition seemed unwilling to run ads attacking Prime Minister Julia Gillard herself, as opposed to the Labor Party albeit probably more because they were worried about how the public would react than any moral qualms on their own part.

It was only near the end of the campaign, as things got increasingly frenetic, that ads attacking Julia Gillard appeared. Pro Wrestling. Some women in MMA and boxing have a problem with this, arguing that however unlikely they'd be to actually beat most male opponents, competing in the same leagues would give women's MMA a better chance of being taken seriously and making more money. A longtime trope in Professional Wrestling , at least among faces. Often times if a heel has a female manager or girlfriend, they'll use her as a human shield when being chased by a face with a steel chair, because they know the face would never hit a woman.

Even when the trope is averted, in Canadian broadcasts of WWE programming they will cut away from a woman being hit by a man however justified it might be storywise even today Thus leading to ridiculous situations where a group of female heels can mercilessly pummel a female face , but let a man come to her rescue and it's edit time. And it's not a dead trope in the States, either. Spike TV the "Men's Network" apparently dislikes showing men striking women, even when it's a horrible heel.

Or when it's a replay of something that happened during a pay-per-view. Showing a lb monster heel legitimately though lightly concussing a smaller female is alright if the monster is female herself.

TNA , whose programming is currently carried on Spike, frequently lampshades this; it's often mentioned that Spike has promised dire consequences for any man who hits a woman on Impact , and the female heels often use this to taunt and bait the male faces.

Part of it may be that Spike also airs the program in Canada. In many promotions, this can lead to confusing rules in Intergender Tag Team matches, where if one male participant tags in his female partner, his opponent with very few exceptions has to do the same, thus raising the question of why tag rules are even in place and preventing the workers from building up proper tag team psychology in the match.

Thunder and Lighting, La Artilleria Pesada, who had taken out the large majority of the WWC locker room by themselves, put their hands on Killer Kat after she confronted them, but couldn't bring themselves to actually hurt her. So they threw her to Sweet Nancy instead. In an effort to prove she deserved an NWA World Heavyweight title shot after Billy Kidman got one, Amazing Kong demanded that Tyler Black give her God's last gift , in order to prove that she could "kick out of anything.

This also caused friction between Jimmy Jacobs with Black and Joey Matthews when they took issue with him using a railroad spike on his ex, Lacey. London and Kendrick found themselves at a severe disadvantage against the Moonwalk Thrillers at the Pure Wrestling Association's Quest of the Cup 7 , as they were very apprehensive about using their usual offense or even some go-to wrestling moves on Courtney Rush and Jody D'milo, who had no issue busting out high-impact moves on them and were only slightly apprehensive about chopping and kicking the crap out of them.

Stephanie McMahon abuses this trope to high heaven to get cheap shots at male wrestlers, knowing even the ones that don't snivel before the co-manager of RAW wouldn't have the gall to strike her back. She goaded The Rock with this after slapping him hard at WrestleMania and labelled him powerless.

The Rock agreed with her note Which is strange, because she did the same thing at WrestleMania , and that earned her a Rock Bottom and People's Elbow, though that happened over seven years before.

Hard as it is to believe, this is one of the lines Jim Cornette and The Midnight Express actually tried not to cross if they could help it, and it was hard not to with all the females fans out for their blood just as much as the male ones. Normally John Morrison won't hit girls. He will do all sorts of other heinous things, but only stoops to hitting girls when Melina commands it.

Rollins consistently refuses to hit her, even when she attacks him, so his girlfriend Becky Lynch evens the odds. Mind, Corbin doesn't hesitate to attack Lynch. During Savage's heel run in , particularly when he was wrestling Hulk Hogan , he would use her for the human shield tactic mentioned above. He also came close several times to striking her usually when he perceived her to be paying too much attention to an opponent, not opening the ropes or folding his robe correctly, or some other minor misdeed but always stopped short of actually striking her.

Apparently, Savage and the WWF agreed that they wanted him to be a heel, but not such an outwardly despicable one. Al Snow says he won't fight women, though he does this out of fear rather than chivalry. See, women can have kids, a kind of toughness he can never match. In the short play "Hamlette", when Hamlette is called Prince of Denmark, she responds with "Princess! I can't fight a girl! Hamlette: [brandishes sword] Then it's gonna be a short fight. Video Games. In Poison Ivy 's level, Batman has to fight his way through female mooks, and the game is designed in such a way as to not allow him to beat them up, only incapacitate them with some sort of gas.

Even though Poison Ivy is the second-last boss in the game , you don't actually get to fight either hand-to-hand despite having pummeled, dropped, tossed, hung, and concussed in various amusing ways a horde of male mooks. While you do see Batman tossing Harley into the protection of the pit, driving her to semi-unconsciousness, and then throwing her inside the prison cell like she was just a strap doll, this is still the trope played straight, as if it were any other boss in the game, the act of fighting said person and trapping her would be a boss fight instead of a cutscene.

BlazBlue : This is one of the nicer traits of Ragna the Bloodedge. Granted, he won't hold back if a woman attacks him or tries to apprehend him, but he states several times that he doesn't enjoy fighting them, and when he does defeat them, he is usually quite sympathetic and regretful. Jin Kisaragi downplays this trope as well in the same manner. While he isn't afraid to bring violence to the ladies, he won't go out of his way to do it unless the girl in question is Noel Vermillion.

Tager seems to dislike attacking women too, but then he dislikes violence in general. Kagura is an utter gentleman, refusing to retaliate even as Makoto wails into him — in fact, hitting women in front of him is his personal Berserk Button , and God help you if you press it.

Bully allows you to hit girls, but your alert bar goes to maximum and prefects spawn out of nowhere to attack you. Enforced, since it's a Western game, after all.

This has a side-effect of turning Zoe into a Faux Action Girl , because although she's stated to a formidable fighter and really likes to fight, you can't fight her; the girl-type AI has them run away if struck. Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin has enemies called Zacchino that refuse to attack any female character and instead fall to their knees and declare their love while offering a rose. Any male character that approaches gets a massive cutlass to the gut instead.

This seemingly makes him far less likely to have been Fujisaki's murderer After Eustache is revealed to be a pirate rather than a monk in Dead In Vinland , he tells Kari that he's killed numerous men, but he's never killed a woman. Kari, a deadly Action Girl herself, is unimpressed and rather insulted, and incredulously asks if he'd still refuse to harm a woman who was charging him with an axe.

Taken Up to Eleven and subverted in Fairune. At the beginning of the game, all creatures refuse to hit the Player Character because she's a defenseless cute girl. Even if you bump into them, neither side suffers Collision Damage. However, the moment you pick up the sword, they attack with impunity.

When Elena confronts him about allegedly doing in her boss, you can either dodge her punch or let her clean your clock, leaving her to wonder why he just let it happen. He was ordered to bring Aerith in unharmed and appears to have a Villainous Crush on Tifa like in the original; Yuffie doesn't appear, so it's possible he'd be willing to get more violent with her. During the three boss fights with him, he will refuse to attack if there are only female characters left standing in the player's party, claiming that "I don't hit girls, ya know?

However, he has a good reason — he was sent to kidnap her. If Garnet is the last party member alive, the boss will attempt to put her to sleep, and that counts as being defeated. So while she won't be attacked, she doesn't have to die for you to still lose. A later boss battle with this character, however, takes place while the character in question is Apparently, when constructing magical death machines, chivalry comes before sanity.

Final Fight : This trope is a big part of the reason why Poison, the punk girl, was retconned into not actually being a girl. To explain, Poison and her orange-haired Palette Swap Roxy were originally just women. That was when all the nonsense about Poison being transgender started. And then the creator finally told Poison's true identity Mia's response doesn't end well for him.

The Ice Queen replies "Good darling, as I'll happily hit you! The Godfather : In the second game, your crew has no objections to wantonly murdering anyone who so much as looks at you funny, but if you attack a female NPC, they twiddle their thumbs on the sidelines.

Ky Kiske from Guilty Gear plays with this trope in that he's a really noble and courteous Knight in Shining Armor to his Action Girl opponents, as evidenced by his post-fight quote against Millia Rage.

He has no problem with hitting I-no, however, who in all fairness is a trying to kill him and b a Card Carrying Jerkass of the highest caliber anyway. If she ends up beating him, she also notes that he held back. As a whole, this attitude probably ends up being more counterproductive than not, especially considering his run-ins with hair-trigger powerhouses like Baiken and Jam Cloudberry. I don't want to hurt a woman! This is perfectly justified, as Jonathan was raised in Britain in the s by his single father, who wanted him to grow up civil.

Jonathan's chivalry isn't treated as a bad thing in the game either; even the series Action Girl Jolyne Kujo who spent several years in women's prison isn't insulted by his behavior and complements Jonathan, calling him a "proper English gentleman". Though it helps that he is Joylne's great, great, great grandfather. Kindergarten 2 : When Carla calls Buggs fat in the mission "Opposites Attract", he replies that he'd push her down the stairs for it if she wasn't a girl.

It apparently only applies to direct violence though, considering he has no problem using a magnet to decapitate Penny in the very same mission. Ganondorf, King of Evil in The Legend of Zelda series, has an interesting tendency to ignore the princess Zelda when she takes part in the final battle, and take minimal steps to restrain her even though she is occasionally instrumental to Link's victory.

In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker , although he does give her a heavy backhand, he goes out of his way even sheathing his swords to avoid seriously harming Zelda, while she's actively trying to kill him. In Mafia II , attacking male pedestrians will engage Vito in a bout of fisticuffs, but female pedestrians can only be shoved and sent fleeing in terror. If Vito runs after them they remain immune to attack, and they can't be kicked whilst they cower huddled in a ball either.

In Mafia III , Lincoln can either punch or brutally shove male pedestrians to the ground, but will simply toss female pedestrians onto the ground gently or toss them by their neck. This is actually explained by John Donovan later in the game: During Lincoln's time in Vietnam, he came across an Asian hooker who wiped out many of his troop, but he refused to kill her and let the reinforcements handle her.

This is also shown when Lincoln confronts Marcano capo Olivia Marcano. Rather than brutally executing her like the other Marcano capos, he leaves her for dead because to him, she's Not Worth Killing. Not that it stops Olivia from being brutally murdered by Giorgi later on. Maniac Mansion Mania : In Episode 53, if you try to get Klaus to use brute force on a female character, he will refuse, saying that he does not beat women. Though it's just flavor text, in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 , if the Incredible Hulk and She-Hulk are facing each other, the Hulk will grouse that he doesn't like hitting girls.

Considering She-Hulk is his cousin, Hulk probably wouldn't like hitting her in any case. Played with and discussed in Mega Man Zero : Zero Would Hit a Girl , but in his first fight against Leviathan, she accuses him of this when she isn't immediately killed by his final strike.

She adds that she told him not to show mercy, making it rude of him to invoke this trope. He remains silent throughout, so we never find out whether this trope is actually in effect. No More Heroes : During the first half of the game, Travis Touchdown has no problem with beating on his female opponents with his beam katana during the ranking match battles, but chokes when it's time to actually kill them.

He gets called out on this by Holly Summers, the sixth-ranking assassin, before she eats one of her own grenades to spare Travis the experience of dispatching her. After this, Travis never shows any hesitation in finishing the job in subsequent fights against female assassins.

Helps that the female combatants he encounters happen to be completely psychotic to some extent or another. In the sequel, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle , Travis still has his willingness to kill female combatants from the last game.

While he refuses to kill college-aged Kimmy Howell, he seems to cite her age more than her gender when he chooses to knock her out with a powerbomb instead of finishing her. However, killing Margaret Moonlight, and especially Alice Twilight, finally makes Travis get sick and tired of all of the Assassin games and declare his intention to destroy the UAA once he becomes number 1 again. The first woman he fights in the game, Kimmy Love, who is the above-mentioned Kimmy Howell all grown up and still seeking Travis' head , is the only one he kills.

And as he readies himself for the finisher, he's very visibly upset and emphatically declares to Sylvia that this is the last time he kills a woman. Sure enough, when he fights Midori Midorikawa, the 5th-ranked assassin, he stops shy of killing her after much hesitance and some intervention from one Kamui Uehara. Princess Waltz : Partway into the game, the incredibly dim Arata finally realises that Chris is a girl in disguise , and finds himself unable to compete with her to his full potential.

Chris finds this incredibly insulting, and later asks Arata to return a punch she gave him earlier to prove that he's treating her no different from before.

Arata manages to weasel out of it by explaining that he can't hit a friend he's not angry with, leaving the question unanswered. Puzzle Quest : Optional party member Princess Serephine makes use of this trope as her support ability, improving the player's battle skill against good opponents that "wouldn't strike a lady.

While the player is escorting her, the mooks do not directly hit her or handle her the same way they would Leon when she is in their proximity. Instead, they give her a nice Over-the-Shoulder Carry to the closest loading zone door unless Leon can get her off their grasp.

In the small section where the player does play as Ashley, it is played quite literally in that they do not hit you; rather, they just grab you by the neck, giving you a nice Neck Lift until you are strangled to death while not striking you once. However, variations of enemies and even shield mooks do not hesitate to give her a nice beating until she dies.

Ada gets no favors either.