Brittany Higgins referred to police by Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyers for comments after aborted rape trial | Law (Australia)

What's actually a shit take is not having the slightest idea of how people (or courts) generally adjudicate the morality of an action. For instance, by your own logic, it is also fine for an adult to "deck" (nobody said punch except you) a ten year old girl for slapping his ass as it would be for a ten year old girl to try and try and slap an adult who had sexually assaulted them.

The capacity for violence, and the inherent threat of the perpetrator, as well as what you could reasonably believe to be true about the assailant as far as how far he/she is willign to go are all hugely implicated in whether or not violence was justified in response to their assaults.

I would say it's not okay to punch people for groping you unless and the contingent facotrs would be those I listed above. Generally when a man sexually assaults a woman, she is in fear and has absolutely no idea her relative level of safety/danger, and on average is statistically likely to be a lot weaker and in a lot more danger than the guy who just slapped her. On average this isn't true for men, if they get slapped on the ass, it is on average going to be by someone a lot weaker and a lot less capable of taking sexual violence any further than that act. Both of them are illegal acts, and both of them are bad acts, but the scale to how bad is not something courts really ever see as equal. Because they're just not.

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