Reply #144: Then ANY act of intimacy, committed by male or female, is a "violent" act

[Montauk6]

I mean, really. A hug or embrace can be looked at as a form of detention or entrapment. A stroke of the hair or neck or body part can be considered an assault. Hey, if I tap you on the shoulder to get your attention, the only difference between that and a vicious punch is simply degree of pressure applied.

So when you deconstruct to such a level, you'd then have to concede that all physical encounters are ipso facto "violent," in which case men AND women are as culpable; furthermore, men can victims of domination as well. The ultimate problem, IMHO, of this kind of ivory-tower, navel-gazing, dust-in-the-wind pontification is that the RELEVANT point of women getting treated like crap in most societies which are, even today, highly sexist and misogynistic (as well as racist and homophobic) gets sidetracked and even diminished.