How hard can it be for a strong man to restrain an unarmed (average) violent woman?

[Anonymous]

I want to think of it similar to trying to restrain an older, aggressive 10 year-old kid that's screaming, throwing themselves on the floor, kicking, etc and I (5'8 myself and fit) managed to pin him/her and restrain the kid. I think that wouldn't seem to hard since the kid has no weapons.

How how about a man trying to restrain an unarmed, average woman (even shorter and lighter than me; probably doesn't do any sport either) that's acting like that? How hard can that be from a 1-10 scale? Wouldn't that be easy too? If she's aggressive and also drunk but unarmed that has to be easy too.

1-3... very easy; no problem at all

4-6... moderate with some difficulty but manageable

7-10... very hard... a challenge

[Orion84]

Physically, it wouldn't be very difficult for most men to restrain a woman.

The only real problem is that most guys instinctively hold back against women, because we know how easy it would be to hurt her. Even in a self defense situation, we don't want to harm her, especially due to the fact that, assuming the police get involved (and they should, in a DV situation), there's a very real possibility that the man will get in trouble.

Men have to be very careful, even if the woman is the aggressor, and he's just defending himself.

[Bolty44]

Women can't match guys in strength even skinny guys are 10 times stronger then women unless she worked in farm or body builder she has no chance of getting out of our grasp only choice of her is being quick to dodge and give a quick one and back off quickly again that should be around 140ms reflex time many guys have this too the score is 0.1 very easy

[Asker]

Indeed. The only single time we (if she's taller and heavier) can be stronger than you is during our childhood through our preteen or early teen years. For instance my long-time male friend is only 2 days older (my b-day being on May 20th and his on May 18th) but he was so thin and shorter during our childhood years.
I was 5'1 at age 10 and he was 4'7. I used to easily pin him down during our game and he couldn't escape. At age 12, I was 5'6 and him 5'1... I would still win. Then I stopped growing at age 14 (5'8) and he started catching up and beat me at the game. Now he's much stronger and 6'2.

[Bolty44]

Yes completely agree.. at early age men are not men yet both genders are almost same but after puberty things change from hormones and physical activities before that I used to lose to my bigger sister in arm wrestling now she can't even budge my arm in that haha

[douride2]

I have seen it happen. Its not near as easy as one might think it should be.

[sirderpsalot123]

Depends how concerned he is about accidentally hurting her