November 28, 2009
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Tiger Woods and Domestic Abuse
TMZ is reporting that Tiger Woods received his injuries to his face from his wife and not from his car accident.
According to their source, his wife confronted him about “reports that he was seeing another woman.” After arguing, she scratched his face. He then got in his car and she struck the vehicle with a golf club. Here is the link: Link
Obviously we don’t know what happened. I wonder how the media will cover the story and whether they will blame her or him if any of this is true.
I was a medical photographer in the military and I had to take photos of spousal abuse situations. I had to take photos of women all the time but I did take photos of men who had been abused. It is interesting that a man generally has to be seriously injured in order to report domestic abuse.
I have a general theory that women are just as violent as men but they do not have the power to carry out their violence. So most of them know it is unwise to even come at a guy with a club because in most situations they will still lose that battle. In other words, I do not believe that men are more violent than women but men are just stronger for the most part.
Do you think men are biologically more violent than women?
Comments (81)
Obviously never dated a hispanic girl, Dan, they will KICK THE SHIT OUT OF YOU IN TEN SECONDS
yes, i do think men are more violent. there’s so much evidence supporting this.
@Drakonskyr - then there’s the filipino haircut. think lorena bobbit
I have to agree with you. Women can be vicious.
I’ll also admit that when I read the title of this I thought “Omg Tiger Woods abused his wife?!”
I think both sexes can have violent tendencies…they tend to translate their anger into different forms. But many studies I believe would tend to show men more biologically inclined towards violence…
@hilaw - You should write for David Letterman. That was a beauty! hahahahaha
Women can be as violent. There’s a lot of stereotyping around the male image. We like playing rough sports (football, soccer, rugby, boxing, hockey) and suddenly we’re more violent. Women’s rugby seems like a testament to the opposite.
Lol.
Eh, I’ve been hearing too many stories on the news lately of middle school and high school girls beating the shit out of each other, so who knows.
@Leonidas - The studies would neither serve to validate nor invalidate this concept. If women are smart enough to know not to attack someone they know they stand no chance against physically then it skews the data.
@hilaw - Never dated a flip, but had my fair share of hispanic broads who could break my toes if I went toe-to-toe. Lawdy.
@Drakonskyr - I was thinking the same thing hah
Us Chicana’s can take a man down!! Puro Chicana!
uh, yea…testosterone. though, I think I probably must have more testosterone than a woman is meant to have, because I can get pretty violent fairly quickly. short fuse :p
I had lots of male cousins growing up so I can pretty much hold my own. My daughters dad tried to raise a hand to me when we were kids before we had her and I ended up beating the shit out of him.. He never raised a hand to me again…
@Drakonskyr - welp, this is what i’ve heard too. but with flip women, they can make you hurt yourself. or kill yourself. they don’t have to lift a finger. the women in my mom’s family, i swear.
I have an ex-sil who came at my brother all the time. She threw stuff, used stuff to hit him with, try to come at him with knives, etc. The only reason she didn’t inflict too much damage is that he was stronger and could take the stuff away from her, and would grab ahold of her and not let go until she calmed out of her rage. And because she didn’t inflict serious damage, he never reported it. I think violence prone women would inflict just as much damage as men if they were physically capable.
I hope this story is not true. How sad if it is! And the children are the ones that truly suffer.
I think violence in women manifests itself differently than it does in men. Men tend to exhibit large explosions of physical violence where as women seem to exhibit violence in more subtle ways. Shrug.
I guess “Tiger” is really not a proper name for a guy that gets beat up by a woman.
Tiger’s wife kind of reminds me of Michael Jackson.
Anyway, I have known a few girls who I think would definitely abuse their significant others in the future, if they don’t already.
Abuse of men by their SO happens a lot more than people realize. It’s just that men are often too ashamed to admit their woman is beating them. In many cases, he finally defends himself and HE gets arrested, because the cops assume he was the main aggressor.
I think that both men and women have a tendency to violence. Each just show it differently. It is all about self control and if you have it or not.
Bitches be crazy.
Hell No!!! I know some crazy violent Bitches. I can’t believe his wife is that UGLY.
I think women can be just as violent as men. Many men do get abused but because they don’t want to be seen as weak by other men they don’t report.
Testosterone makes you more violent, energetic, etc. Maybe his wife has more T than most women.
i don’t think men are more violent. men in general are stronger and more able to be forceful though, so i think that is why most cases of abuse are men beating women.
I think it’s about the same either way, but men are stronger so they come off as more violent.
I’ve seen too many chick-fights to even entertain the thought that one gender is more violent than the other.
BLAH BLAH BLAH!
I think men and women are equally violent, as far as urges go. But the activities that society associates with men tend to involve physical strength, brute force, and that sort of thing. So men are probably more tempted to commit violence since we’re so programmed by society to value it.
it depends on the genes.
i know fruity guys and tough girls. heh.
Yes I think that men are more violent than women.
It doesn’t mean that it’s ok for women to beat up men, just to be clear….
I knew it! The Black Half of him would mess up sooner or later!!!! LMAO!
I used to think men were more violent. In our country (U.S.) it seems to be about a tie. Maybe the huge pickup trucks and SUV’s the women drive now have evened the playing field!
not necessarily, but many men are stronger so men may do more damage when they get angry… i think in the past it was men were more violent but not so much anymore.
Women are more experimental, lets just go with that.
@Drakonskyr - sounds like a man who knows what he’s talking about.
@hilaw - yes, i do think men are more violent. there’s so much evidence supporting this.
Well, Dan’s very entry (as short as it is) answers this point. Women are just as prone to violence, but they go ignored or underreported because they’re not as visible.
So if you have “evidence” in mind, it must mean you’re some sort of a Charles Xavier telepath.
@HappyLemming - exactly. i won’t argue.
@HappyLemming - and the post is gospel. it’s all i need. you’ve convinced me. and how can i not be? with your wit. the intelligent point you make. so, let’s all say women are just as violent. let’s ignore all other evidence.
it feels so good not to argue.
@HappyLemming - and i looove your username. it’s very telling.
@hilaw - If you’re going passive-aggressive, it’ll probably be more effective if you chose to write gramatically. Putting on and showing off your rhetorical *dunce* hat is self-defeating.
@HappyLemming - oh i see. hmmm…thank you for pointing this out. i appreciate it. you’re a superior writer. this is true. and you’ve been published where?
Yes. Our brains are evolved to support the lifestyle of primitive hunter gatherers. In the caveman society for which they were geared, a man’s primary responsibility was to hunt and kill things. Therefore I suspect that men probably have behavioral tendencies towards violence and aggression hard wired into their heads.
It depends. Men try to keep a handle on their emotions, for the most part, and can usually control themselves, unless they already prior have anger or control issues. Women tend to let whatever is going on at the time build.
@hilaw - these people and their expertise in grammar, gets me everytime. I like how you played that off lol..
@Drakonskyr - That’s real. ;D Or Italians.
IDK. I think it really depends on the person!
xo
No, not really.
I was stabbed three times in my arm with a ball point pen. People wonder why I didn’t marry her …
yes women can be just as violent. completely agree. whether or not we have the strength or courage to go through with it….is another issue.
Because if we tried and failed, which most likely would happen, those men would most def. come back with more strength and beat the SHIT out of us…and we’d be S.O.L….
id be too afraid to try and attack any man.
@RunningMan42 - o shittt….
@hilaw - LOL well you sure didn’t get a response to that.
I think your theory is wrong. I can kick most guys ass but I choose not to. It’s not an effective way to get some dick.
@sexncookies - Yeah, it was unprovoked as well.
@ShimmerBodyCream - FTW
men tend to be physically abusive while women tend to me emotionally abusive.
It depends on the person temperament. Not their sex, in my eyes.
no?
@Drakonskyr - Dude I hear that. I’ve seen it happen too. Not a pretty sight.
yes, testosterone, and the way that they have often been raised to view everythingas a pissing contest makes me think that they may be more violent.
As violent as women CAN be, they still can’t hold a candle to men.
Dudes just have a harder time controlling their anger than women.
I think it’s 50/50. I hate to admit that I beat the crap out of all my boyfriends. It just feels like sometimes that’s the only form of stress relief and sort of gain power and control. I grew up being beat all the time, and seeing my parents hit each other severly so, it’s kind of how I grew up thinking, that hitting someone gives you control, even if it’s just for that moment.
Umm… Elizabeth Lambert (psycho soccer chic)…??
I wonder if he critiqued her golf swing when she hit his car…
the nastiest barfight i ever witnessed was women. it was scary as hell !
I agree–women are capable of violent tendencies, too, although men are usually more physically capable of carrying out their aggressions to the point of doing more damage. Also the social stigma prevents most men of reporting acts of violence.
Men have more strength and so they can usually do more damage when they do get physical, and testosterone supposedly makes you aggressive, but I think temperament has a lot more to do with it than hormones. I know some seriously mean women and I know men who have been abused by their wives. It doesn’t get reported nearly as often, though. I don’t think men are really more likely to abuse than women, just more likely to do more damage. I think it’s about even between the sexes as far as incidence. Probably. I would never do that to my sweet husband. ):
@droptop11 - lmao!!!!!
I don’t think men are more violent than women. I think women have just as many violent tendencies. We just know to pick our battles, for the most part. Because, you’re right, most of the time the guy a woman wants to beat on is stronger than her and a smart woman knows that you do not hit someone and expect NOT to get hit back, even if its a guy. :p Although, there are some women who apparently still think they won’t get hit by a guy if they hit him first because guys aren’t supposed to hit women. Which baffles me. If you hit someone, you need to be prepared to get hit in return.
For the most part, women find less violent ways to get back at men. Or at least ways that are not violent toward the man’s person. Take female serial killers, for example. There are some violent female serial killers in history, but the majority of female serial killers choose to do their killing via poisoning of some kind.
It actually doesn’t surprise or strike me as interesting in the least that men have to be seriously injured in order to report being abused by their spouse or girlfriend. From what I’ve read, it is because even in today’s society men are viewed as the stronger sex and women are still viewed as the fairer sex. Which basically means, you have to be a pretty wussy guy in order to get beat up by a woman on a regular basis. You obviously are such a wimp that you can’t “handle” your wife/girlfriend and you obviously can’t take the least bit of pain. Because what could she do compared to you? Especially if you happen to be the larger of the two of you. It isn’t taken as seriously, and it feels like a huge blow to your pride and manhood.
Not every man feels that way I’m sure, but apparently the majority of men who are abused by their wife/girlfriends do.
But, it is also not taken as seriously as a man hitting his girlfriend/wife. Because, men are, again, considered the stronger sex. If a man is beating on a woman, well damn he could really hurt or even kill her with little effort! However, a lot of women don’t report their spousal/domestic abuse at the hands of a man, either.
Still, more women report it than men. That’s true. I hate that it is, though. It needs to be taken just as seriously. Spousal/domestic abuse is terrible, no matter what gender the abuser is. And it shouldn’t be tolerated and nobody should be made to feel ashamed or afraid to report it. No matter if they’re male or female.
i agree, ladies are more violent than men…
Women are more likely to mess with someone’s head. She does looks psychotic, I wouldn’t put it past her or anyone else out there, because you never know.
I think men are more (actively) violent, but not because of a biological predisposition; men are more violent because of the influences of media, society, and the cultures they are apart of that laud masculinity and often associate “masculinity” with “violence.” The distinction between the two seems to be fading, and therein lies the problem.
This will probably be an unpopular answer, but I think women probably have more violent impulses than men do. I think all the hormonal swinging we have to deal with from periods and PMS combined with social stressors and the stresses of trying to be the perfect mom and spouse, while also working full time, at least set the stage more for violent impulses. However, I think that we have better self control (for the most part) than men do, so we don’t act on the impulses as often.
That said, I also think female violence towards men is probably a much more enormous problem than people realize though, because I suspect much of it goes unreported because (think about it) how many men do you know who would want to admit that their wife kicks their ass? I also think that because of the lesser physcial strength, the women tend not to inflict as much damage, which results in thinking like “Well she punched me in the face, but it hardly even hurt and isn’t even going to leave a mark, so how can I report that?”
I have known two women who were spousal abusers and in both situations, it was a source of great shame for their husbands.
No men are not more violent. As I victim of domestic abuse I dedicate a lot of my free time to advocating for it. Men are just as much at risk and it’s a violence ignored by society. However, the statistics are shadowy because men are more likely not to report domestic violence out of humiliation and fear of loosing custody of their children. And more often then not, the law is on the women’s side so if a man reports domestic violence the women can easily turn herself into the victim and the man will get carted away. The one solid fact we do have? Women are just as violent and more likely to use weapons to execute their abuse to compensate for the lack of physical strength they may not have.
Women are and capable of being just as violent.
Men destroy you physically; women destroy you mentally.
I think either gender can get pretty violent if they’re pissed off enough…
Yes…I was a bouncer for three years and the worst fight I ever got in was with two women.
No, but women can come up with some very vicious “nonviolent” ways to be vicious.
P.S. WTH is up with Mrs. Wood’s lips? Eeek.
I think women are more violent, most of the time they hit first. Men just have more strength, their hits last longer.
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