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Here's the scenario from the book in-progress (sneak peeks / spoilers on DeviantArt as Sims comics):

Candi (insert yourself here) is over at a boyfriend's house (insert yours here.) The initial plan is to study (you're both in high school.) Suddenly, hours go by and his brother and parents have been no-shows. Boy and girl know they shouldn't, but they do.

Then, the neighborhood is under attack from a gang of arsonists. No sooner do boy and girl... finish scratching the itch... then a bazooka goes into the living room. The smell of smoke hits the air. You two rush to get your clothes on, and peer out the bedroom window. Chaos everywhere. State of emergency. Probably a martial law-style curfew in place.

The house is on fire, you can't stay. His bedroom has a door to the back yard. He flees to his left, dodging the insanity and trying to get to a motel.

Police assume every teen on the streets is a terrorist, and you have top secret pocket dimension tech and a centipede costume in your school backpack. You're similar to Spider-Girl.

What do you do?
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Plan of action A: Stay with your boyfriend. 60% chance you're arrested, 100% chance your family finds out what you're doing. You're in deep crap for dating in secret.

Plan B: Veer to the right and try to make it to your house in a different neighborhood, 90% chance of being mistaken for a terrorist and getting arrested instead, 35% chance your strict folks will learn of the forbidden boyfriend anyway, because of the media.

(Candi chooses this canonically, and pays the price, setting her up for a very rough life to follow. This causes her sister Miriam to panic, and she makes even worse choices in response to this, like trying to recruit a serial killer to fight the terrorists. It's a comic book world.)

Plan C : Stay behind and battle the thugs on your own. 80% you're arrested, if not murdered.

Say if the woman is right up in a man's face for no reason and hits him or tries to hit him without cause. If she is talking and acting like a man or behaving like a man does that then give the man himself the right to treat her as he would a man & retaliate against her or to protect himself, say by using physical force or violence against her?

When I was walking my dog last night 3 women walked past who I assumed must have been drunk. One of them flicked a cigarette at me and started laughing. When I called her a 'b*tch' she walked up to me and slapped me around the face. I told her to 'f*ck off' and called her a 'b*tch' again and she attempted to smack me around the face a second time, swinging right at me but narrowly missing as I moved backwards, which forced me to grab both of her arms to subdue her. I tried telling her to calm down but she started screaming at me and shouting to let go so had to let go of her as not to cause a scene. As soon as I let go she lunged towards me a third time and tried attacking me again by swinging yet another punch. In the heat of the moment I lost my temper and swung at her, landing a punch on the middle of her face which knocked her backwards to the floor. Her friends quickly helped her up onto her feet and she started crying hysterically as blood was dripping out of both nostrils. I panicked and left the area quickly as her friends were shouting and swearing at me and calling for help. I saw one of them get their phone out and heard her say 'I'm calling 911' as I walked away so I knew I had to get out of there. The police would obviously only see the situation from the females perspective and arrest me for assault...

Your thoughts?