Violence begets violence.  I don't see the confusion.

I can understand his retaliation.  What I don't understand is the severity of it.  It is reported he fist her in the face a couple of times, and busted up her mouth, he also left her unconscious by the time he was done. That was brutally uncalled for! A guy getting slapped by a woman can either, slap back out of reflex, and warn her off, or warn her off without responding in kind. 

I'm confused.  You asked why men hit women.  Well, you provided your own answer: She hit him first.

It's not a good idea to hit someone a lot bigger and stronger than you.

The question could be rephrased "Why do women expect to be able to hit men and not be hit back?"

Actually, the question should be why do women hit men knowing they are bigger most of the time?

Using Chris Brown and Rihanna was an anology of how things can happen, perhaps the wrong anology is used, but being at the forefront of people's mind of recent events. 

The title remains because it is a valid question with no confusion.

Maybe you can tell me more about that Charles?  You're so quick to chirp in and try to be smarmy about it, you might have a lot to say on this topic?

In my opinion it's a matter of frustration accompanied by a lack of sufficient maturity to deal with that frustration.

While it’s easy to say she hit him first, it’s very unlikely that it’s anything near the same. My wife hits me on occasion however as likely or not she’ll hurt herself more than me because she’s not able to keep her wrist from folding back on itself for a proper punch. Also it’s really not a credible threat and except for the rarest of circumstances I doubt there are many men that really feel physically threatened by a woman. It certainly is possible to simply react out of reflex but this in itself is evidence of a lack of maturity.

The funny thing is that when my wife hits me it’s usually because I’ve been ignoring her and what she really wants is for me to pay attention to her and “be nice” to her. If you think about this the logic is really quite strange. The idea that the best way to get me to be nice to her is to hit me is very counter intuitive except for the fact that given that I know this and generally respond to it by paying attention and “being nice” to her it apparently works well for her.

I actually just find it so funny that it’s hard for me to be mad at her, however when I was younger this probably would have simply pissed me off. After all, why should I have to play some kind of game, wouldn’t it be easier to simply say what it is you really want than to go through some kind of charade?

As the French would say “viva la difference” and most of the differences between men and women are precisely what it is that attracts the other, however some of the differences can be downright annoying.

Generally women’s verbal skill far exceeds that of most men; after all they have not only survived but thrived throughout history while being theoretically inferior to men because of their ability to manipulate along with the fact that they hold the key to the magic lock box.

While I’m not at all condoning violence against women and while you’re always going to be wrong whenever you generalize, I suspect that men that are susceptible to this don’t simply go off into violence for no apparent reason and that it’s very likely that the woman knew precisely which buttons to push and had no compunction about pushing them.

There’s an old joke that goes, what do 1 million battered women have in common? The answer, they still don’t bleeping listen.

I suppose most of this will be taken out of context and someone will say that I’m somehow defending abusive men. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is nothing that someone can say or do verbally that justifies physical abuse.

However I do have a question in response to the one asked in the OP, what makes many women think that they have the right to boss their men around?

For a moment there I thought you were suggesting I hit women.

Let me give you a clue. Your article started off wrong by assuming all men hit women since you never said "Why do some men hit women?", second, more often than not I ask myself why are some women dumb enough to strike men first knowing there is always that chance the man will strike back and in most cases these men are bigger and stronger. As draginol said:

We live in a society where men can't even give women a compliment without one of them dropping some kind of lawsuit on them. And because of these lawsuits, many women have this notion that they can insult, abuse and push men around and the posibility of jail will keep them in check but the reality is that more often than not men (if you can call him a man) like Vhris Brown won't give to hoots about the law.

I say smack, lock up, punch, schold every man that physically and mentally abuses any women for no reason. But if you hit first, don't complain about getting hit back. Though, like you, I don't see why any man would have to take the beating to an extreme and less you are married to Zena Warrior Princess or China from the WWE.

Mumble you're right, nothing justifies physical abuse, well said!

Charles you've been meeting the wrong women, obciously from what you write. 

Probably, doesn't negate what I said though.