Well the male/female issue comes into play with hand speed, power, coordination, ability to take more punishment. Once again not trying to make an arguement just pointing out what makes sense to me. If you put a 135 lb male boxer in the ring with a 135lb female boxer, more than likely the male is going to win because there's a physical difference between us. Thats why I ask the question, although boxing and martial arts are so different as one is a sport and one is self defence like you said. Only being 5'10 150 everyone I train with is bigger than me and the one thing that comes to mind is if this were a real situation, this 6 foot 3 250 pounds of muscle could possible steamroll right over me. And as much as I'm aware of striking balls, eyegouging. ripping the ear off, it never seems too comfortable. Maybe it's because he's a fantastic martial artist for a big fucker I dunno. So I figured thats the kind of discomfort a women feels being you're naturally a smaller build. How would you personally deal with a bigger stronger man attempting to just mandhandle you with his body weight?