Originally Posted by
TheLostCarrot
I mean, I wanna know from the guys of toribash. What would you do in this situation? Like really ask yourself and think about it.... from an unbiased perspective, would you really sit there and take the abuse regardless of the punishment he receives from football. He gets payed to take that punishment, not to be physically hit by a woman [Not defending his actions just looking at both perspectives]
Also note that this was at a casino, so intoxication may play a factor in both their actions.
He should have sucked it up and taken it. Just because somebody else wrongs you does not justify you wronging them back.
Like I said, his only justification for doing this is an assertation of dominance. His fiancee was getting "out of line", so he hit her. He then goes on to drag her unconscious body, a very large sign of disrespect considering he could have easily carried her. The entirety of that incident was an exercise in control over his fiancee, which is not equality. Letting this action go unpunished would be the epitomy of inequality.
People need to realize that this isn't a microcosm for double standards against men with assault. It is irrelevant in the situation that women are capable of committing assault, or than women are treated differently from men when it comes to charges of assault. Any argument trying to complain about any of these points are red herring arguments, because they're abstractions about criminal law, not the actual event. It is irrelevant whether the process of assault prosecution is fair or not between the genders because this is not about gender differences, it's about this one instance.
Assault is assault, it doesn't matter if women get lighter penalties for committing it, what matters is that assault is a serious crime that merits serious repercussions. The facts are simple, he hit his wife hard enough to knock her out, which is also enough force to cause brain damage, and then dragged her through public while unconscious. This is assault, and the punishment for it is merited. If anything, it has been light.
And being intoxicated isn't an excuse. Inappropriate use of alcohol resulting in a crime is still punishable. Drunk drivers are the most obvious example to support this claim.