Hitting a girl is okay in self defense

In round 1 I posted this: "So let's keep life or death circumstances or any situation that is obscure and unlikely to happen in real life or extremely rare out of it." In response to this my opponent puts this: "I think if a girl was coming at a guy with a chainsaw or a knife - not life or death but to cut off a leg or maybe stab him in the eye - and it was impractical for him to move out of the way" Let's start with the fact that I specifically asked that unlikely or absurdly rare circumstances be left out of the debate. My opponent has ignored this and posted a scenario where somebody is trying to attack you with a chainsaw, and you somehow know they only intend to remove a limb. My opponent should lose conduct points for immediately ignoring my reasonable request. Beyond that situations where somebody is coming at you with a chainsaw, even if they intend or claim to only want to remove a limb are for all practical purposes life or death circumstances. Removing a limb with a chainsaw will often times result in enough blood loss to kill you. also in your struggle to get away the person with the chainsaw could miss your leg and chop off your head. Now I'd appreciate if we can move on with the debate and actually argue the resolution as well as the agreed upon framework. GIRLS HIT LIKE GIRLS This should be obvious but girls hit like girls. Some guys hit like girls also but pretty close to 100% of girls hit like girls. A 1993 study comparing the strength of women compared to men showed that women were 50 percent as strong.[1] That is pathetically weak. Quite honestly if a girl punches you in the face you'll probably walk away with a bloody lip at worse. Punching them back will leave them unconscious laying on the floor. Another study in 1999 confirmed the earlier study's results. It showed that women had 40% less skeletal muscle mass.[2] You might think that Elite female athletes are fair game but this isn't the case. Another study comparing the hand grip strength of female athletes compared to the average dude showed that the average dude is stronger.[3]So even though I may struggle to beat up Ronda Rousey, I'll probably easily beat the crap out of Serena Williams while her hits will not phase me. The truth is my hits would probably significantly hurt Ronda Rousy more then hers would hurt me. I'm just being nice and giving her the benefit of the doubt. If you think muscle bound women would hit harder than some random dude think again. In 2002 a celebrity boxing match between a muscle bound Chyna and out of shape Joey Buttafuoco, Chyna got beat like a red headed step child.[4]If some out of shape dude can do that to a muscle bound professional female fighter imagine what an average guy can do to the average girl. The problem with hitting a girl even to get her to stop hitting you is that there is a disproportionate amount of power behind your punch if you're a guy. You're doing way more damage to them than they are to you. Don't get me wrong it's wrong for them to hit you but a more fair response and one that isn't disproportionate to what has been or is being inflicted on you, would be to block her blows or grab her arms and restrain her from hitting or flailing at you. It's pretty simple even for an untrained man to simply pin a woman onto the floor or restrain her in some way. According to my studies you're at least twice her strength so pinning her down isn't a problem and if it is than once you push her away you can just run like hell and call the cops. Men typically run faster than women as well.[5] CONCLUSION The reason a guy shouldn't hit a girl even in non life threatening self defense is because the punishment doesn't fit the crime. There are also suitable alternatives that are available to prevent further damage being done to a man while being physically attacked. sources [1] http://link.springer.com... [2] http://jap.physiology.org... [3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... [4] ()remove parentheses before copy and pasting into browser. [5] http://www.runnersworld.com...