any man who hits a woman is despicable, its one of those things that there is simply no excuse for. (obviously i am excluding dante's 'beatings' from this
) but any man who seriously hit a woman in my eyes needs the biggest kicking of his life. Apart from anything else its a form of bullying, of torture, and the woman should get as far away as she can as soon as possible. When he has done it once he will do it again.