beat your boyfriend
From Portland, OR, World Capital of Appalling Billboards, comes this gem to the right, discovered on Goddess-friendly Hawthorne Boulevard. It's an ad for an indoor Go-Kart track, but the message is clear. Beat your boyfriend. Just like the cute, empowering "Girls Kick Ass" and "Throw Rocks at Boys" stickers urge you to do. Just like this girl wants to do in righteous retribution for the fact that her BF's dad won't let him use the car to hang out with her.
From USA Today comes this recent article which partially dispels the absurdly lopsided cultural prejudices about domestic violence, but even here, we're reminded at every turn that men are stronger, so when women strike them, it's really not the same thing.
It's easy to prove the inherent fallacy of the "women are weaker" alibi for female violence. Once more, for those who didn't grasp it the first thousand times around: WEAKER MEN CAN'T GET AWAY WITH HITTING STRONGER MEN. Case closed. It has nothing to do with physical strength and everything to do with spiritual superstitions. Our pussy-whipped culture sees females' bodies as more sacred than those of males. Men are disposable. Who gives a fuck if they get banged-up or even killed? Just another doofus on the scrap heap.
If he slaps your face lightly and doesn't cause damage, that'll still cause more societal outrage than if you clobber him and leave a black eye. So beat your boyfriend. Make him hurt. You can get away with it.
