At the end of the day...
no man should ever hit a woman. I've seen both cases of it....and the end result is usually....dont put your hands on her bruh.
The problem is Beadle is creating a strawman argument...or maybe should just isnt understanding what Stephen A was talking about.
I've seen women who were in abusive relationships. Its like damn...no matter how hard you try they cant pull themselves from that abusive mate. Learned my lesson years ago that you really cant get directly involved unless they are family....cause you end up fighting the dude....and she ends up going back to his ass anyway.

*Years ago a neighbor of mines was drunk beating up his girl in the street...stepped in and slugged it out with him to keep him off her.....she went back there 4 days later* .
This is the case of where the man is truly a fukking punk. A guy that just beats on a woman because he pissed off at life. It just takes the woman to reach her breaking point to become free of it.
The flip side to that is..
The woman who is aggressor of these disputes. She likes getting confrontational, she likes arguing, she likes being able to "put hands on you", she likes not backing down from the situation.
Again...I still believe the man should never hit her or put his hands on her. Thats still a weakness. Real strength would be to not hit her......but with those kind of volatile females then the best course of action is restraint. Restrain her and then get the fukk outta there. Chicks like that want to bait you into hitting them or reacting...so they can the cops, call they mom, or "Imma get my homeboy or family to come kick yo ass"

She called the cops, you locked up and now she fukking someone else anyway
You live and you learn on what females to deal with.
The irony is.... if you mess around and get a "crazy chick" (lets be real....you dont know they crazy until the first problem occurs) if you're too nice(good person).....that gives them even more reason to pop off at the mouth or put their hands on you. The crazy chicks are less likely to do that if they know they fukking with a real hood dude.
This isnt a black and white issue. Its too bad that SAS is under fire for comments that provide a full perspective on this topic.