lets settle this
is shooting women wrong?

@mischievoustomato I had a teacher that liked to say that we shouldn't beat a woman, even with a flower. But he never said anything about shooting...

@alyx i never understood why people said that

@mischievoustomato The idea is that a woman is even more gentle and fragile than a flower. And since you're already supposed to be careful, tender and caring with flowers, it means you need to be even more so with women, as to not hurt them.

@alyx women arent more gentle or fragile than flowers at all

@mischievoustomato What can I say, Eastern European women are different. We're still behind with the screeching feminist phenomenon. We still have women who behave like women.

@alyx i'm just saying that the avg man would need to punch a woman on the head several times to kill her, while destroying a flower takes much, much less strength and effort

@mischievoustomato
>several times
You need to go to the gym.

@mischievoustomato
Also, you're not a fan of poetry, are you?

@alyx i like some music that i can consider to be poetry, but why?

@mischievoustomato
Because it's obvious that women are not LITERALLY more fragile than a flower. But metaphorically and whatnot, it's a different story.
Also, the point isn't if they really are objectively weaker or not, the point is that you're supposed to treat them as if they are more gentle and fragile than a flower. That's the point of the saying. That's the message it's trying to convey.