[Richard]

Originally Posted by Swervy

Sweet Jesus....you are perfectly happy to hit females now (whether or not they hit you is irrelevent)

How the hell is it irrelevant?
Why'd anyone WANT to hit someone unless they've been hit first?

So you find the 'convention' of man not striking a woman inappropriate.

Yes, I do, because I see no good reason for it.

I sometimes find your ideas strange about cricket....right now, I find you pretty sad and extremely pathetic.

Why? Because you're a typial "poor little females" sort of guy?

One of these days, with that attitude, you will either find yourself behind bars, or on the end of a pretty well deserved battering

Oh, yeah? Funny how it hasn't happened already, then.

I am actually shocked that anyone could admit to such a thing and use the word 'happy' twice whilst doing it.

Well, all right, happy isn't appropriate and I'll change it, I'm never happy about hitting someone - but I am not unhappy, no.

sorry if I am going overboard here, but Richard, you as a person/net entity, have gone spiralling down big time in my opinion

You are going incredibly overboard, just like anyone else pathetic enough to endear to that ludicrous convention which has no basis in non-hypocritical fact.
The only possible basis appears to me to be "pick on someone your own size" syndrome, which I'm a big believer in - I don't like physical intimidation.
But, funnily enough, the outrage when a big guy hits a small guy isn't anywhere near the outrage when a small guy hits a small girl. As for if a big girl hits a small guy - well, it's practically non-existent. Oh, and another one - if a little guy hits a big guy, he's asking for it, yeah? So he can't be surprised if he gets whacked back. But if a small girl hits a small guy - oh, no, how dare he endeavour to strike even.
And all this ******** is for one reason - the typical modern-day sexism that females are in some way absolved from blame in physical confrontation - the same way so many guys have this sick obession with "bitch-fights".