guest_guest,

I'd posted this originally on WD's thread in response to your post there, but later felt it more appropriate to open my own thread. I was tempted to put in on Bonni's thread (If "A" calls "B" ...), but I didn't want to crash her thread. So I'm reposting it here.

Guest, To reply to a previous comment of yours, if a woman's bf abuses her, I have every freaking right to get angry at him. It's not codependent, and even if it was, I don't care. It's not being willing to tolerate even the thought of a man abusing a woman. It's about decency. It's about honor.

Men have such an unfair advantage over women when it comes to abuse. I know personally of one example and it deeply saddens me to see how terrified she is of him, and of how she'll do anything so that he won't beat her. We men have to stick up for any woman we know of who's being abused. We're the best ones to keep ourselves in line.

So don't you go telling me I don't have the right to get angry at the **** of a guy that's abusing this woman I know.