# You knew it was coming...Gals, could you take your mom in a fight? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376 "2003-06-08T01:04:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/1 "2003-06-08T01:04:25Z")
Well, could you? ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/2 "2003-06-08T01:07:39Z")
Yes, but she’s in her sixties and has had open-heart surgery. ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/3 "2003-06-08T01:08:55Z")
Um… Strictly hand-to-hand, yeah, but not if she kicked me. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/4 "2003-06-08T01:16:52Z")
Why would I want to? It would just give her something else to try to guilt me about. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/5 "2003-06-08T01:34:04Z")
You are going straight to hell for even suggesting such a thing, young man. Now, march yourself straight to your room and think about what you’ve said. My mom is 5 feet tall and 64 years old. I’m 40 and 5’8" and she scares me. Even to contemplate hitting her has me cowering under my computer desk, waiting the lightening strike she will surely call down ala Storm. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/6 "2003-06-08T02:15:36Z")
Absolutely! However, she (at age 65) could take my sons in a fight. They’re 5 & 7 but pretty tough. She takes care of them 40+ hours a week. Funny, though – I am reminded of the last time my mom tried to give me a spanking. I think I was around 12 - I just ran away from her!! ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/7 "2003-06-08T03:10:36Z")
No. I’m stronger, no questions… but she (and may she never read this) is nastier. And would have no qualms about fighting dirty, or paying a spectator to throw in a few punches or trip me when I wasn’t looking, or “accidentally” breaking the rules of the fight, or feigning and injury and when I’d turned to leave attacking me from behind, or waiting a week or more after I thought the fight was over, and beating me with a 2x4. She doesn’t quit. Eventually, I’d lose. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/8 "2003-06-08T03:18:53Z")
Now that she’s 90 I might have a chance. But she always seems to come out on top in a coco-bust. ---
**Author:** ![Jessity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jessity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jessity)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/9 "2003-06-08T03:27:39Z")
I dunno. That’d be a decent fight, assuming I would consider for a split second actually hitting my mother. She’s 45, I’m almost 24. . . I think she could take me, because I just don’t think I could hit her. ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/10 "2003-06-08T03:36:47Z")
I will give a more erotic example for all of you perverts. Who would win. Donna from That 70’s Show, or Donna’s mom from That 70’s Show. In the mud! ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/11 "2003-06-08T03:45:14Z")
Not a chance. My mom’s 5’9" to my 5’2" and a helluva lot stronger. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/12 "2003-06-08T03:49:52Z")
Well, I can’t imagine such a thing happening, considering that we’re both such huge pacifists. I’ve never struck another person in anger. But could I kick her ass, if the mood struck me? Sure. At least she never ceases to remind me how much stronger than her I am whenever she wants my help schlepping something. ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/13 "2003-06-08T03:57:03Z")
Of course, but then I’d have to kill myself for beating on a cookie baking, hospital volunteering, little 65 year-old quadruple bypass surgery survivor, who smokes like a chimney and has emphysema. Plus I suspect she’d get in a few good licks and that really would be too embarrassing to bear. ---
**Author:** ![Daikona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@Daikona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daikona)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/14 "2003-06-08T03:57:10Z")
I could physically. I have 4 inches on her, I’m in way better shape, and I move faster. I couldn’t handle the psychological angle though. Good lord, I still hear about the time I was 3 and called her “mean mom”. Imagine the guilt if I beat her in a fight! ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/15 "2003-06-08T10:10:01Z")
God no! My mother goes to the gym 3 times a week, has a resting heart rate of 49, and for her 5 feet packs a lot of muscle. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/16 "2003-06-08T11:06:56Z")
She hit me once. Once in my entire life. Yes she would win because evidently I can only blub like a baby if she hits me…of course I was 15 then and she is shorter and punier…but I still think I would blub. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/17 "2003-06-08T13:19:53Z")
My mother’s going to turn 60 in 13 days. I think she’d wipe the floor with me though, as she’s been taking karate and stuntperson classes for the extra work she does in films. ---
**Author:** ![Scarf-Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Scarf-Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarf-Ace)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/18 "2003-06-08T14:09:53Z")
Tequila - interesting Mom! Might I have seen in her any films? ---
**Author:** ![MamaHen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/19 "2003-06-08T14:10:39Z")
Years ago I was “play” fighting with my Mom. Suddenly it turned nasty, we both got mad. She kicked my ass. Evil woman kicked me while I was down. I think she could still take me so I wouldn’t try again. Though she looks harmless that’s one tough little woman. Plus she cheats and would tickle me. No one can tickle like your Mama. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376/20 "2003-06-08T16:45:41Z")
Easily. my mom has 4 inches on me (5’11" to 5’7"), but she’s skinny and weak. Also, I’m 22, she’s 51. I’d break her in half. Of course then my sisters would pound me to pieces… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-knew-it-was-coming-gals-could-you-take-your-mom-in-a-fight/180376.md?page=2)