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Nana's avatar

I have a story. I had a really bad fight with my mother once. She slapped me for saying something she didn’t like, I slapped her back, we didn’t say anything to each other. She went to the balcony and I went to the corridor. I was getting ready to leave when I heard that she was complaining about me supposedly to my another relative over the phone. I went to see, she was standing on the balcony and didn’t notice me. I got a thought, then another thought questioning if what I wanted to do was a good idea, the initial anger was wearing off, but too late, I went to the kitchen, took a glass bottle and hit her on the head from the back. It didn’t break, she gasped, turned around and I dropped the bottle and ran to the hallway. I wasn’t dangerous to her anymore and was actually actively trying to leave, but she didn’t let me. She didn’t call the police either. Instead we ended up fighting badly enough for the neighbors to call the police. I thought that she would kill me several times throughout the fight, fought as hard as I could and screamed and so did she. I have a plenty of such stories and while individual experience is not the best tool for measuring veracity of someone’s story, from experience you can learn that some things that seem possible in theory are at least very unlikely in reality.

I somewhat agree with what the other commenter said about point 5. There was no logical reason for beating him instead of calling the police, after he no longer posed a danger to them or their child. It was counterproductive actually, but I imagine you can’t really expect logical decisions from people in a heat of state, if she was in it. What they chose to do after was bizarre. Why not call the police, why letting the person that you are so afraid of stay in your house? You cannot “just let” another person “live or die on his own” in your house. You would still have to contact the police if he died during those weeks and what had happened would have be much harder to explain. The fact that they had enough of food there and basically everything you need to survive for several weeks was odd. What a coincidence.

Another interesting thing to add to point 6 is that from his description his son hardly fought back. He didn’t really react at first and when she was “systemically pounding him” he didn’t do anything. It’s very weird. There is initial confusion when you get hit all of a sudden but it lasts a second and as soon as it ends the fight or flight response is triggered which likely won’t allow you to just sit there while you are being aggressively beaten.

I think it’s fiction.

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Colette's avatar

I agree with your conclusion. It is fiction. Its too neat; it has an arc like fiction.

About women fighting men:

Fox Fallon is not a good example since trans women take hormones which cause muscles to atrophy to near-cis levels. Articles calling what she did "skull fractures" are misleading. You wouldn't normally call a broken nose a skull injury.

But let's say she has all the same strength as a man. Well, she lost against a woman on her Seventh fight, so it seems that a female boxer can match a man's strength, even a trained one.

Do I actually believe that last part? No. Both trained, man easily wins. But I would not be surprised to see a trained athletic woman beat an untrained or unfit man in a fight, which is the case in the story. In a fist fight speed is what's most important. Whoever delivers the first blow is usually the winner. This I learned from listening to my father who had won many street fights. I can say from my own limited experience, people with less or no experience in a fight often lack confidence and slow up with fear/indecision, or don't seem to know what to do in a fight and this itself has been enough for me to best larger opponents.

Anyway, this wasn't hard to find: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/10697010

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