I remember a woman once approached a group of guys, having just come from some self-defense class. declaring she could kick the butt of any guy. The guys laughed and she wasn't having that. She started
attacking them with her martial arts!
You can imagine what happened next, the first guy she kicked in the face, after he shook it off (which took maybe 2 seconds), closed with her. She tried kicking him again and she got nowhere with him at that point. That's the only time I
ever saw a guy hitting a woman and I had no issues with it. A cop nearby saw the end of it and jumped on the guy and started to cuff him. Everyone who saw this immediately came up and yelled that she started beating on him and his pal for no reason whatsoever. The cop was of course quite surprised and once the officer got the full picture, she got cuffed.
That drove her nuts as she started yelling, "They weren't supposed to hit back!"
Anyway, I talked to the two guys she kicked afterwards and all she did was surprise them. She hardly left any marks.