Bowling?
I’d also hit Karen Brewer from the Babysitters Club books. Or the Olsen Twins on Full House. Or off.
I got mugged once in Italy by an old woman with two kids. They cornered me on some stairs, and the woman and girl were pulling at my arms while the boy tried to take my wallet. I struggled politely, but when that didn’t work, I swung my arm in a wide arc, hard enough to hit all three of them in the face. I’d do it again, if I had to. But that was the only time I’ve ever hit anybody for anything.
Humpy is a martial arts instructor.
only if the diswasher malfunctions
About seventeen years ago, I spanked one of my first cousins once removed. He must have been about six years old. He and two of my nieces–one his age, the other less than a year old–were at my parents’ house with their mothers (two of my sisters and his mother, my first cousin). I was in the kitchen, as were the kids, and he was rough-housing despite repeated warnings from me not to. He knocked over a chair and came within inches of crushing the baby. I grabbed her, made her she was okay, then grabbed him and spanked him on the spot. Afterwards I picked him up, carried him to his mother, and dumped him in her lap. The six-year-old niece, seeing him crying and learning I was responsible, was astonished. “Oh my god, what did you DO?” she exclaimed. “Uncle Skald will let you get away with MURDER most of the time!”
I wouldn’t hit a woman unless she were attacking me with a weapon that could kill or grieviously wound me. I’m not that guy anymore.
If any female ever needed a punch it was the psycho girl from The Crush.
I hit a child, maybe 12 or so, and hurt him very badly back in the late 80’s. He tried to pick my pocket on the street, and when I caught him he tried to hit me in the head with a bottle. I grabbed his neck and rammed his face into a light pole. Broke his nose, broke some teeth.
I don’t feel particularly bad about it, but I think in retrospect that I could have controlled him without doing so much damage.
In an earlier incident I was mugged by a gang of kids about the same age, and one of them cut me in the face with a knife.
It’s not about age or sex, it’s about what they are doing.
ANYONE who could get so hot for Cary Elwes should be punched like that, and often.
You mean other than Snooki?
I’ll see your Crush and raise you one Wicker Man.
Keep your pimp-hand strong, brothas!
I have spanked my children. They have outgrown the need. I have used various levels of force on women but never had to strike one. I would if needed.
If that sewer bitch from The Ring ever came at me I’d roundhouse kick her ass into bizarro world.
Pretty much this. Of course, I’ve never hit anyone before (some sparring with my brothers aside) and think it unlikely I’ll ever be in a situation that calls for it.
In the right circumstances of course I could. Everyone has the right to defend themselves, their family and property to a reasonable level. If force is necessary to prevent someone from harming my person, or that of my family, then I will use whatever is necessary to terminate that threat.
In the same limited set of circumstances in which I’d hit a man, yes. Being pacifist it’s unlilkely to come up. I’ve taken a kicking in the pasy without fighting back.
Context matters, of course. I’d hit anyone at all in self-defense. The level of force would be proportional to the level of threat. Technically I have hit a child in self-defense, as I was mugged by a 16-year-old girl. She weighed more than I did, so I didn’t pull any punches, either. But I kept my purse and my phone, got her phone too (she dropped it… and then ran right out of her shoes). And she was in handcuffs 10 minutes later.
Threat-level (partially measured in terms of how big and/or strong the other person is, partially measured in how aggressively they’re behaving) is more important to my assessment than the sex of the assailant is. Actually, the sex and age of my mugger probably contributed to my decision to fight back; had it been a 6’2" fully adult man, I may very well have believed that fighting back would just get me killed.
Also, I’m game for consensual, adults-only impact play, within reasonable limits.