By Psychology Today on 06/21/2018
“… One of the clearest messages I heard from my father when I was a boy was this: You don’t hit girls. I wasn’t supposed to start fights with boys either, but if one of them were to hit me, my dad made it clear that I could, and, in fact, should hit back. But girls, no. It was an absolute rule, and I heard it loud and clear: You don’t hit girls. As an adult, of course, this translated into You don’t hit women. …”
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