Originally Posted by [MERIT]

What makes a woman more special than a man? Never hit a female? What if there is a man of the exact same height and weight of a female. Is it okay to hit him?

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Lord. It's the same reason (or one of them) that you don't hit kids. They're smaller/weaker than you, and less able to defend themselves. Would you kick a dog or cat that hadn't attacked you? You can't just say everyone's fair game. Men are much more capable of protecting themselves than women, and as women have only recently (like, in the last 100 years or so) become what you would call emancipated, or at least, seen as more than just pretty empty-headed objects, they don't have the history of defence and fighting that men do. So they're not as prepared for attack, they don't engage in it as much as men, and they're much more vulnerable as a result.