I do not take cases of assault lightly. I believe in chivalry and the right for a woman to feel safe and as if a man is not going to take advantage of her or attack her in any way. At the same time I believe this idea comes packaged with the notion that a woman receiving such treatment will do so under the understanding that she affords a man those same protections.
This is not the way the USA world actually works. Here, if you are hit by a woman then you are hit and have no recourse to retaliate. To do so would be illegal and expose you not only to legal and civil punitive damage but to social repercussion as well. In furtherance of this argument I give you Joe Mixon:
Mixon, the man pictured above striking a woman, was charged for the crime. The woman who hit him was not charged and was in fact allowed to sue Mixon. To go one step further, he was suspended by his football team for an entire season. Now I don’t pretend to know the entire incident. My research indicates that both parties were off balance and in the wrong. She went off on him for calling her friend ‘a fag’ and responded with a verbal assault. They continued the altercation inside where she put her hands on him. He reacted, flinching towards her. She put hands on him and wound up striking him in the face. He hit her back.
This is where it gets spun. She was drunk and high at the time of the incident. She hit him first. She claimed to get reconstructive surgery for her face but in fact never went to the hospital or received surgery. Witnesses indicate that she was wobbly before she went down from the attack. In other words, the severity of the attack was far less than it appeared.
So what happened? He was arrested and sentenced. She had no legal repercussion.