On the rare occasions when women get into physical fights, it’s commonly triggered by one woman calling the… — Steve Stewart Williams
On the rare occasions when women get into physical fights, it’s commonly triggered by one woman calling the other promiscuous, albeit usually in less polite terms. When men get into physical fights, on the other hand, it’s rarely triggered by one man calling the other promiscuous. It’s fair to say that such an insult would lack bite. In fact, yelling at a man that ‘You’ve slept with hundreds of women!’ probably wouldn’t be an insult at all.
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