If someone hit you in the face would you fight back.
More importantly, and this is what gives all fights meaning, what if you know for certain you can beat that person in a fight?
Feminism is interesting to me because after reading literature on it I think it is not about sexism in the macro sense. It's about being in a physically disadvantageous position for a history and trying to be equal. You can't change your sex, but you can change your worth.
25% to 30% of adolescent relationships are abusive and from the same source
50% of all women murdered in the United States are killed by a spouse or an acquaintance.
So much violence seems to be with the people we "love."
Love and power. Status quo. Master/Slave Morality.
I think domestic abuse is a result of power struggle. Physically a woman can't really win a fight (some can) unless she has a knife or a gun. Physically, a snake can not beat a wild cat (some can) unless they have venom.
Venom as a metaphor has been used for woman MENTALLY winning fights (or causing domestic abuse). Dane Cook brings up the concept of the relationshit. Poison Ivy was a cartoon character in Batman because she was deceptive. Biblical allegories like Adam and Eve show the serpent (snake symbol venom motif) as the deceptive object influencing the woman, Eve. Then Eve pressures Adam into eating the apple. Like the movie Dogma cleverly suggests, Woman are responsible for original sin in Christianity and it sucks.
How can men and woman reconcile their differences in a world that has existing power structures and social institutions that run counter to popular ideals about human nature?
When are we going to address the reasons why most relationships are bittersweet. Is marriage a social institution that needs to be abolished just like other power master/slave relationships had to be abolshied due to violence? Like the American revolution, colonialism, and maybe in the future globalism??!?
You know reading this got the topic I think a lot back into my head. Any crime against another person is a hate crime. Like the episode of SouthePark. A crime is committed out of rage that comes from hate. So is every crime not a hate crime when you think about it.