Men Hitting Women

Not long ago a professional football player knocked his girlfriend unconscious and was photographed dragging her body out of an elevator.  She then married him, and the NFL suspended him for two games. The NFL penalty for smoking marijuana is16 games, so the priorities are clear: to hell with women, even if they do buy tickets. 

I have never actually seen a man hit a woman, but my father did. My father was a starting guard on a JC football team that won a national championship. One night he was walking home from work in a seedy part of town. He came on a man punching a woman, so my father grabbed the guy and threw him down. You know what happened next. The woman rose up from the ground and attacked my father. He always laughed when he told that story.

I have seen a woman hit a man. My mother had an Irish temper and my father liked to argue. One evening he came home from work, said the wrong thing, and my mother hit him as hard as she could in the mouth. With red-stained teeth, my father caught her hands and held them until she cooled off. The rule was that you never hit a woman under any circumstance. That was the rule my friends and I learned. It's not a complicated rule subject to wide interpretation--but I wouldn't want to see what those five duds on the Supreme Court might make of it.