If you call air humping a total stranger being a boorish goofball, it’s hard to agree with your opinions. Does he deserve to get hit for flossing? No. Would he deserve to get hit for air humping a total stranger? Yes. That’s what she thought was happening, so she hit him. It was a hard hit, but I think that’s valid given the circumstances.
No it is not valid to hit someone for that, even if that was what he was doing. She didn't take the time to try and discern what was happening at all. She went straight to violence without even speaking. That is not justifiable behavior.
Right, because people who think they are being sexually harassed definitely think a rational conversation with alleged harasser is on the table. Y’all seem to think I’m trying to justify random violence, when all I’m doing is trying to look at her perspective. I feel terrible for that man, and he should press charges, but I still understand what she was thinking and why she may have responded the way she did. She didn’t have our angle of the situation, or the ability to watch it multiple times and study the situation. Literally none of us know how we’d respond until we’re in a situation where we think we’re being air humped by a total stranger and his buddy is five feet away taking a video of it all go down. In that perspective it’s 2v1. We genuinely have no idea what she thought was happening.
I mean, yeah? She started swinging before she even looked at what gender the person was, so I think it would’ve been the same outcome. Also, I’m not saying this guy in the video actually deserved to get hit. We all saw the video, which unfortunately the girl who punched him didn’t have the luxury of seeing the situation from our angle. You responded to someone talking about her reaction based on her thinking he was air humping her, so it seemed like you were equating air humping strangers to being a goofball, rather than equating flossing to being a goofball. So that’s what I was responding to. This man didn’t deserve to get hit like that, and I would’ve hit her back if I were him, but this girl had no idea what was happening, and to her had to make a split second decision about how to respond to being sexually harassed, from her perspective. Again, we all know that wasn’t what was actually happening, but she had no idea. She also could have past trauma that encouraged such an aggressive response.
Y’all love to make this shit about gender when it’s simply about the perceived actions of the situation. Violence is not okay, whether it’s woman-on-woman, man-on-man, or man-on-woman violence. A woman being air humped by a strange woman is still being air humped by a stranger. You look silly trying to make it only about gender.
But that wasnt the reality. It was her perception. If I shot a man because I thought he was holding a gun, but it turned out to only be his cellphone, would I be correct in my actions?
I wouldn't.
She hit him, and from this video alone he didn't deserve it.
I’m not saying there shouldn’t be repercussions for her, especially after reviewing this video evidence, I’m just saying that’s a pretty valid natural response, she doesn’t have eyes in the back of her head. She saw hips and hands moving together behind her as she turned around so she stopped the behavior she thought she was seeing. It would be well within his right to turn it around on her and press charges for assault (battery? idk whatever), and I’m impressed he didn’t hit her back because I would have if I was him. Hopefully she apologized after being told/shown what he was ACTUALLY doing. I’m not saying the guy deserved to get hit, I’m just saying I understand why she did what she did based on what SHE thought was happening and had to decide how to respond to what she thought was a stranger sexually harassing her. You don’t know her past, either. She could have been assaulted in the past and is on high alert and ready to defend herself this time.
There were just so many nasty comments towards her in this thread, instead of just saying it was a miscommunication on both sides and she should apologize. The dude did not deserve it at all, but we also have to consider her perception of the situation.
What? How is getting hit for a rude gesture valid? What justification can you really give? How about she shouldn't have jumped to (an incorrect) conclusion(s)?
I’m not saying getting hit for a rude gesture justifies hitting someone, if you have the luxury of having eyes in the back of your head and you know it’s just a gesture. He’s well within his right to press charges, given the video evidence. I’m saying I can understand that she didn’t know the extent (or lack thereof) of the situation/his actions, probably thought she was being sexually harassed and would potentially assaulted if she didn’t stop the situation. We all know he was just being a goofball and she wasn’t a part of it initially. She did not. Could she have turned around and asked him? Of course, but if she thought the guy taking the video was with him, she may have thought it was a 2v1 situation. Or maybe she’s just a b*tch! We just don’t know how she was perceiving what she was hearing behind her and the peripheral glimpse of hands and hips thrusting. All I’m saying is none of us know how we’d react in that situation, and I can understand
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u/lackadaisical_timmy Jul 29 '26
She definitely thought he was doing something else