A gay man named Ryan Carrington miraculously managed not to deck a drunk woman who slapped him, shoved him and called him a “fat f*ggot” outside of the Black Friar pub in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on Friday, August 16.
PinkNews reports that the woman, who obviously had three too many and stumbles around with slurred speech, starts by saying, “You don’t like women because you’re a gay bod. And you don’t like f*cking women. That’s what your problem is, you big fat f*ggot.” (Bod is British slang for “dude” or “person.”)
Kinda makes you wonder if she’s attracted to him.
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Anyway, Carrington keeps his cool, continues smoking his cigarette (or “f*g” as they call them in England), looks the woman in the eye and dismissively says, “I’ve been insulted by better than you, darling, by people with far more intelligence.”
She then tells him that he “stinks of sh*t” and keeps calling him a “fat f*ggot.” She gets in his face and when he turns away, she shoves him from behind. He then steps up to the woman, towering over her by at least two feet, and says, “If you push me again, I’ll f*cking deck you. Stay away from me. Stay away from me.”
As he backs up from her, she then slaps the back of his head, acting like a real tough lady, drunken mess that she is.
She keeps saying, “Don’t you dare. You have no respect for women,” as he keeps her at a distance with a single outstretched hand. She repeatedly tries to punch and slap him while drunkenly yelling at him.
When two people come out to defend Carrington, he stands between them and her so that she doesn’t hit them as well. Shortly after, the police roll up and Carrtington says, “Now hit me again, b*tch.”
Carrington is a saint as far as we’re concerned and the drunk woman should thank her lucky stars that he didn’t lay her out. Not only did he not smack her, but he says he endured far more than the four minutes of abuse recorded on video. He also told people not to hate on his attacker.
“I doubt it’s the life she would have chosen if she had a choice,” he wrote on Facebook. “Let’s not condemn her, let’s try to help and educate — far more rewarding.”
The woman was arrested for disturbing the public order. If Carrington had hit her back, it’s possible that he could’ve been arrested as well. Sometimes it’s better to just record an incident and let the person bury themselves under evidence of their bigotry rather than destroy them just because you can.
Vince
Yep. Right coarse of action even though it would test anyone not to respond.
controversial2019
As a Brit, I can confirm that at the beginning (and up until he squares up to her post-head slap), she’s actually calling him a f*nny (lady part; not bottom like in America). It’s only f*ggot after he squares up to her.
Doesn’t change anything except that it’s not as per the article.
iminheatlikeacat
As a Brit I can also confirm we do refer to cigarettes as ‘fags’ but the man in this video was smoking a vape, which are not referred to as fags, as per the slur being shoehorned into this article.
DrJohn
Don’t feed the animals – the best course of action which I learned living in NYC. Just don’t feed them.
LARRY
I must say that I do not even possess a third of this man’s character…especially after she slapped him, I would have knocked her effing teeth out. Sorry but its the truth.
Chris
I agree with you. I wouldn’t have been able to hold my cool. I was a t a restaurant once and a some inbred-looking redneck made a comments about “those fags over there”. I took off my watch and sunglasses and calmly walked over to him. Very quietly I said “how would you like to explain to your buddies at work tomorrow how you got your ass handed to you by one of “those fags”? He shut the hell up. Sometimes it’s ok to defend yourself.
enlightenone
And hit her with a scale and mirror!
Tombear
The man is a saint. After she hit me I would of flew into a rage and laid the bitch out!
OzJosh
So drunks acting out is now news? You can see this scene acted out every night in front of one in five pubs across the world.
controversial2019
He is to be admired for not giving her a smack back – if someone is attacking you like that, it’s pretty natural just to put them in their place.
Of course then the angle would have been skewed about ‘Man hits woman’. Because despite all the calls for gender equality, people still look down on a guy who retaliates when a woman hits him.
My personal view is that physical violence should be avoided at all costs, but if someone hits you then if we’re going to advocate for an equal society, you have the right to hit them back; regardless of gender. And any arguments about ‘men being stronger’ are misogynistic and irrelevant. A stick thin man would usually think twice about hitting a body builder; because of difference in strength. So if someone ‘weaker’ than another person makes that decision to hit the ‘stronger’ person; it’s on them if the ‘stronger’ one hits back and floors them.
Joshua333
“I’ve been insulted by better than you darling.”
Can I… CAN I USE THAT?!
djmcgamester
She’s getting way more attention that she deserves.
broadshoulder
Somethings wrong with the law where a woman can abuse and manhandle him and if he raised a finger to her…
He’d have been in the wrong
The law needs changing
And that’s definitely a straight woman. Look at her dress sense
James
WHAT IS HER NAME AND WHERE DOES SHE LIVE.