To the man that called me a Red Neck or said I had a red neck mentality or a lower-class mentality. Which ever you favor, I am not aware someone not even of acquaintance could determine that opinion.
I have known middle/high-class men to abuse their SO/Children just as lower-class men do. It’s not a class thing, it’s an out of control male thing.
One of two things comes to play, high-class men are fewer compared to lower which equates abuse in a higher number of incidents, not necessarily higher percentage. I have found no study or done a study myself to find this exactly out, but I’d guess the percentages would be roughly (no pun intended) equal. Two, if the percentage were lower for high/mid-class fellows, I’d suppose the uppers would have more distance from their SO/Children then the lower. Which would leave less irritation to the male and less of stress to provide for his family.
[side note: let’s not forget woman abuse men more than the other way around]
To OctoberGirl, no one likes to hit anyone. I sure do not, even though I do box. If you do, besides the sportsman version, I suspect something wrong with you. I do not like to hit (read: slap) woman and children, but I am no square, there comes a time when a woman that was not raised right and definitely there is a time when a child will test the limits.
I have always warned my brother (speaking of children) that if he did something I would whoop him. If he did it, I would have to keep my word as a man. Same thing went for my girlfriend, which I am still with. She agrees with me one hundred percent on what I did, she did something that bothered me, and I warned her. She did it again and I slapped her. She never did it again.
I had to make a “man” decision as one of my mentors calls it. I had two choices, either to kick her out of my home or to offer her a physical punishment. I had to weigh the decision, which one do I want more, to keep her or not. If I did not want to keep her I would have told her if she did that again, I’d kick her out. Instead, I told her if she did it again I’d whoop her ass, not because I am abusive and hate woman, because there needed to be a consequence for an action.
I did it because I am a man and I stay true to my values, and I do not let people run over me as they please. When I have a reasonable excuse for you not to do something, I except you to honor my wishes.
I am a easy going guy, and I do not get angry often. People trust me and hardly anyone that knows me fears me. People hit me and I do not go crazy, I can have fun. Even when I am play fighting I will still keep my word, just how I am.
I have been in confrontations with woman, even in my own place of business. I have only had to resort to using something other than physical restraint, once. That was when a girl attempted to nail me in my genitals and I pushed her back and over a table. She resorted to leaving instead of coming at me and if she did I would have no problem going one on one with her. If you have no respect for my body as a man, then I have lost respect for you.
Again OG, sorry about your mishap in the parking lot.