I'm not saying every relationship is perfect because it's not, every relationship is a bit dysfunctional like you said, but I know if my boyfriend ever talked down to me or hit me, his ass would have been long gone. You just don't do things like that, no matter what the relationship is.
I don't know if I would qualify him slapping her as "hitting" for one reason; if only the characters of Ryoki and Hatsumi were reversed in that situation - there would not have been a problem. I do consider myself to be a feminist, and men and women are supposed to be equal but different. If this situation works in reverse without causing a problem, then it's unfair for the guy. If you look at the situation that Hatsumi's sister put herself in - she was the aggressor in the relationship; yet I have yet to hear that she was abusive towards her boyfriend. (Sorry about the asinine lack of names, but my books are far far from me at the moment.)
If the roles were reversed, I don't think people would be sitting there calling a relationship like that healthy. He didn't just "slap" her, he forced sex, made her feel like shit, hurt her in a LOT of ways (dropping her, pushing her, etcetc), called her names.. was controlling, possessive, etc, etc, etc. If a girl was like that to a guy in a relationship, anyone would tell the guy to get the hell out of there.
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I do consider myself to be a feminist, and men and women are supposed to be equal but different. If this situation works in reverse without causing a problem, then it's unfair for the guy. If you look at the situation that Hatsumi's sister put herself in - she was the aggressor in the relationship; yet I have yet to hear that she was abusive towards her boyfriend. (Sorry about the asinine lack of names, but my books are far far from me at the moment.)
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