Fox News doctor says men are allowed to hit women now because of the “gender equality movement”

[DonViejo]

Keith Ablow told "Fox & Friends" that a man should never hit a girl, even if that means banning co-ed sports

COLIN GORENSTEIN

Fox News’ resident “doctor” Keith Ablow blames co-ed sports and the gender equality movement for perpetuating a culture that tells people like Florida State University quarterback De’Andre Johnson that it’s okay to hit women.

Just this week, a bar surveillance video surfaced showing the quarterback punching a female student in the face after she “provoked” him.

The Fox News “A-Team” member said that the surveillance video made a compelling case for how men not hitting women is an “antiquated notion” today.

Doubling down on the issue of co-ed sports, Ablow said he wasn’t at all surprised that someone who belongs to a culture in which women can compete against men in wrestling matches, would then apply this same aggression when in the setting of a bar.

“If you’re saying that it’s just fine to flip a girl onto her back in a wrestling match, and pin her to the ground and take some joy in that — well then I guess if you’re in a bar and she slaps you, you punch her in the face,” Ablow said. Adding: “Not in Ablow’s world, because you’d never be wrestling her to begin with.”

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http://www.salon.com/2015/07/08/fox_news_doctor_says_men_are_allowed_to_hit_women_now_because_of_the_gender_equality_movement/

[underpants]

1. Heard EXACTLY the same thing on local RW radio yesterday

They've got themselves a talking point

[QuebecYank]

2. Ablow should be stripped of his license

The RW sees nothing wrong with slavery, as it provided jobs for blacks; they apparently see nothing wrong with one of their own politicians having sex with his wife who has Alzheimer’s; now this. Pretty soon, they'll be saying sex between adults and children creates a loving bond between the two. These people are sick!

[DeadLetterOffice]

3. I am not at all clear...

... on why it is ok to hit *anyone* in a bar. Or anywhere else for that matter. Unless of course one is being assaulted and fighting back (and no, "provoking" is not assaulting.)

[valerief]

4. I thought physical assault was against the law for everyone. But I'm not a Fox News doctor,

so what do I know?

[mr_liberal]

5. If its in self defense its ok.

This was an overreaction though.