Wondering...

Below, Peony said:

To my way of thinking, if Schaefer wants to act as he thinks he remembers men acting "back in the day," then let him face up to the "back in the day" consequences. I'm picturing something involving a father, a fiance or older brother, and a shotgun. But the guy's 84, and then there's those pesky battery laws.

This reminds me of something that happened recently:

My husband was working a part-time security job at a place called Keymark. The place is a distributivists nightmare. They hire mostly immigrants with little or no benefits. The people work a great deal of hours each week, and take home very little pay (70 hours with a paycheck of $300). Also, the work environment is not very safe, and the company does little to fix this.
My husband eventually quit because the hours were stressful, and his position there was rather pointless.His job was to point out many of the unsafe factors, and when he would report them, nothing would be done.

All of my neighbors work there.

One day my neighbor knocked on my door and started a conversation with my husband. He said that he worked at Keymark, and was on suspension. Some weeks ago his wife brought him lunch, and a couple of other employees started making remarks about his wife. It got heated, and he ended up punching one of the guys. Knives were pulled out and it got ugly. Our neighbor asked if he could put a good word in with my husband's boss (the owner of the security company as the security company was an independant contractor) so he would not lose his job.

I am not condoning violence, but my father used to have a saying about people that made remarks about other people's wives: "They are going to find his body in a garbage can somewhere."

In this age of feminism, why has it not become expected that when you make a pass at someone, you do not also expect a punch in the nose to accompany it? I think about this aoften because my husband has a wretched temper, and if someone were to do or say something disrespectful to myself or Rosey Posey, it would be worse for us.