To think perhaps he deserved getting punched??

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Tricky one as far as I’m concerned - violence bad but this guy was being a homophobic dick so…

Friend’s brother is a bit of an arsehole, winds people up, thinks he’s funny. I have as little to do with him as possible as he’s a right wing type who always thinks he’s right and could start an argument in an empty room.

So, Jeff is in a bar with his girlfriend. A gay couple - one ‘girlie’ one more masc looking ( apparently) - stand near them at the bar ordering drinks, minding their own biz.

Jeff, loud enough for half the bar to hear, says ‘ I don’t get it. If you’re going to go for someone who looks like a man, why not just go out with a man’ at the couple.

The ‘girlie’ woman says ‘what did you say?’ To him, he repeats it, and she punches him in the face. He falls over, his girlfriend is outraged, the gay couple leave.

For what it’s worth, I’m genuinely surprised he doesn’t get thumped more often.

YANBU - he deserved that! Homophobic prick.

YABU - he’s entitled to his opinion, violence is never the answer.

I used to think that 100% violence wasn't the answer.
But now 98% not the answer.
Because I know a few people that if someone had been allowed to hit them it would have probably changed their attitude.

Option 3, he should have been thrown out of the bar and banned.
Having said that maybe he will keep his abhorrent opinions (which he is actually entitled to hold) to himself next time.

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Win stupid prizes

@iwafs there are plenty of options in between a punch to the face and doing nothing. People on this thread have suggested things already, do you really need me to suggest some more?

Fuck off yourself.

He is indeed a homophobic prick. But still didn't deserve to get punched.

Bashing people is rarely the best option but a loud mouth antagonistic dickhead getting floored doesn't really bother me much.

I think he did. 😁

Presumably the court would consider it violent assault in the first place then !.

Christ what an arsehole. I can just picture his smug grin thinking he's being oh so funny, looking around the pub.

Good for her, I'm glad she punched him and I'd have been pleased if it was my DD (also gay) for not putting up with this sort of shit.

It is reasonable to expect a punch back if you punch someone. In what world are there no consequences for that? Slippery slope. She should have used her words and he should have been barred. Now she has assaulted someone and will deserve whatever happens next if he follows it up.

Violence should never be the answer, but its the only language some dickheads understand…

Yeah she shouldn’t have punched him but if I’d been there I would have seen nothing, if you see what I mean.

Well they do say 'fuck around and find out' and that's exactly what's happened here

I believe that the expression is "fuck around and find out".

I don't think anyone deserves to get punched, no. I also don't think it will go anyway to addressing his ignorance so just a needless violent act.

I get why it feels satisfying but don't think punching him will have cured his homophobia, he might even use it as an excuse to punch the next woman who offends him.
He's a dick. I'd spend more energy avoiding him and his girlfriend.

Are you comparing homophobia to some other topic which is actually up for debate, and both sides and opinions would be valid? This isn’t a difference in political party or vegan be meateater. This is homophobia.

What's unreasonable about the question?

It really depends on what was going through the woman's head when she punched him. Was she working under the assumption that he wouldn't be able to punch her back because social rules say so, or did she regard the potential for hospitalisation as an acceptable risk?

He fucked around and he found out!

I think it's unreasonable, solely because people have died from one punch or push (that has caused them to fall and fatally hit their head) and the perpetrator could face a manslaughter prosecution. So for that reason I think it's an unreasonable action.

Isn't there a subreddit you should be skulking around somewhere?

I don't condone violence and she could have been arrested for assault, but he was being a twat so im not going to losing any sleep over it

Ooh, she shouldn't have punched him, and I really do believe violence should never be used, but I must admit there is a small bit of my brain going 'good on her'. The amount of horrible comments people think is okay to say openly at and to gay women is WILD.
What an ASSHOLE though. Hope his girlfriend dumps him for being a stupid, narrow minded prick.

I agree. Who wants to click an option essentially saying it's fine to be homophobic, when it very much isn't. But violence isn't the answer and can't be justified because someone is a homophobic dickhead.

Doesn’t sound like he got a chance as he was on his arse 😂😂😂😂