Honestly I think someone should print out this whole topic with the articles and examples and post them all over the place, mail copies to politicians and local judges.
This is just a wanton disregard of certain individuals and quite honestly disgusts me.
This is like back during segregation, though not as bad and I hate to refer to such a terrible time in mankind's history, but at the moment it looks like cases like this are treated in the same regard.
If your struck with malicious intent, be you male or female, is it not assault no matter the gender of the assailant?
I consider myself a chivalrous person, I open doors, I offer help, I step out of others way.
Yet, I do so for both men and women.
If a woman thinks they could get away with attacking someone just because their "weaker".
Though they physically may be... it is still no excuse.
I have had something similar, though less extreme, happen to me.
While I was in High School, my friends and I decided to have a "Talk like an Australian" day.
So we were walking down the halls just innocently saying "G'day mate." to people we passed.
We walk past a group of girls, like many others we had walked past, and said "G'day mate" just as we had countless times before. But then I'm hit in the back of the head with a book so hard I fell over. Not only were my hands grazed from the fall, but I had a lump on the back of my head the size of a golf ball.
But what happens?
One of the campus patrol people see this, and I get sent to the principal's office and get 3 days of in house suspension.
I try to fight it, but it only digs my hole deeper, I get people who I saw that day to come in and explain, I get the four friends I was with to testify what happens.
My punishment gets cut down to a weeks worth of lunch detention.
Then after a few days, I find out that she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against me.
And that's a whole big mess I won't go into, we counter sue for assault, they drop charges.
But I still got punished for saying "G'day mate" and taking a book in the back of the head.
Fair? No.