Slapping

[Paulclem]

Yes, it was definitely a game show. Bad acting as well. The fake intonation!

So I suppose that he was already kind of aggravated by the mocking of his friend in the Build-up to the slap-clip. So then she slaps him in an effort to make him do something because viewers are getting frustrated by this point...
Indeed, the question is why everyone was so outraged that he hit back... and started hitting him into the bargain. As far as I am concerned that was pretty humiliating for him because he looked quite sweet. On the other hand you know that people are going to do such things if you go on something like that... Although maybe it is absolutely a no-no to slap a woman in Indian (?) culture?

That Endurance show seems quite scary actually. I wonder why people would like to do that...

It is a cultural thing. My wife was harassed by a bloke on a bus in India, and she gave him a slap. He ran off at the end of the journey because the other passengers would have got him.

As for endurance - perhaps it tied up to the honour thing in Japan. Maybe that's where they got the "I'm a Celebrity Get me out of here" idea from.

[Babyguile]

I profoundly disagree with those who say it is a double standard to consider a man hitting a women the more serious offence: it's just common sense - and I hate this misconception of equality, which is often taken to mean that women should be treat as men. Real feminists have only ever used 'equality' to mean equality in law, in employment and in education. Men and women are very different in their behaviour and motives.

This video illustrates how in danger a woman is in the presence of any man, no matter how close they seem.

I lost my appetite (I was eating a delicious sandwich!) when I first saw this. It's very disturbing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5W85...eature=related

Notice how the dynamics change as soon as the blow lands. Her life was in his hands, and the lives of her children. This is how serious male-on-female violence is. Most of it happens in the home.

How dare he.