->'''[[ChefOfIron Zeff]]:''' ''[[NoJustNoReaction Men aren't meant to kick women]]'', you twat! That's an ironclad rule of this universe since before the time of the dinosaurs! Listen, I don't care how many times you screw up as a human being, but if you ever screw up as a man... If that day comes, ''[[FreudianThreat I'll be there to personally slice your balls off]]!'' Hell, [[ForgivenessRequiresDeath I'll even slice my own throat while I'm at it]]!\\
'''Sanji:''' ''What?!'' Why would you go that far?!\\
'''Zeff:''' [[ToughLove It's my duty]]... It's what it means to be your damn [[LikeASonToMe parent]]! So don't you dare grow into some asshole I'll come to despise, you fool! Now hurry up and get back to work!
-->-- '''Sanji''' is taught not to hit women, ''Manga/OnePiece''

->''"I-I cannot hit a lady! It's not what a gentleman does! Please do not make me hurt you!"''
-->-- '''Jonathan Joestar''', ''Fanfic/JonathanJoestarTheFirstJoJo''

-> [lifts up Tuffnut, preparing to hit him in anger, freezes] ''[[HalfIdenticalTwins You're the]] ''[[HalfIdenticalTwins guy]]'', [[LampshadeHanging right?]]''
-->-- '''Snoutlout''', ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'', "Viking For Hire"

->'''Scott''': "I don't hit girls."\\
'''Roxie''': "You're just a pussy, Pilgrim!"
-->-- ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim Gets It Together''

->'''[[AlphaBitch Tammy]]''': ''You wouldn't hit a girl, would ya, Heathcliff?''\\
'''Heathcliff''': ''Uh, no. No, I...I guess not.''\\
'''Tammy''': ''Good! 'Cause [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale I LOVE to hit boys!]]''
-->--''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'', "Terrible Tammy"

->If she had been a man who dared lay hands on him, Erik would have dropped her where she stood. But alas, she was only a woman.
-->--''Fanfic/ErikTheVampireHunter'', an AU retelling of ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''

->'''Fooker''' ''(in a flashback)'' My, aren't we pushy! [[TemptingFate Whatta ya gonna do, sweetheart? Beat me up?]]\\
''(Switches back to the present)''\\
'''Nick''': You mean you really ''did'' beat him up? ''(Ki grins)''\\
'''Fooker''': It's not fair. Guys should be allowed to hit girls in self-defense.
-->-- ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', [[http://www.gpf-comics.com/archive/2001/01/06 January 6, 2001]]

->'''Bronn:''' It's against my code to hurt a woman.
->'''[[FauxActionGirl Obara]]:''' It's amazing [[{{Irony}} how many men we beat seem to have this code]].
-->-- ''Series/GameOfThrones'', "The Gift"

->'''Morph:''' [''strangling the Hulk with [[ShapeshifterWeapon shapeshifted chains]]]'' You hit a girl, you insensitive bucket of crap! I don't care how how big and stupid and ferocious and infused with deadly radiation you are, ''we DON'T hit chicks!''
->[''The Hulk grabs the chains and flips Morph over his head'']
->'''Morph:''' OW! OOWW! EASY! EASY! Okay - exception made - you can hit ladies - just bigger ones! OOWW!
->'''The Hulk:''' '''[[ShutUpKirk RUBBER THING WILL STOP TALKING!]]'''
-->-- ''Comicbook/{{Exiles}} #5: Up North And In The Green Part 1''

->'''Washington:''' Why not just attack her [Sister] and win then? It would take about ten seconds.
->'''Sarge:''' That's the problem! I can't attack a girl. So we're locked, in an epic stalemate.
-->-- ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''

->'''Wendy''': You sat there and took it... when you could've taken my gun away from me any time you wanted to...\\
'''Marv''': Sure, but I thought I might be able to talk some sense into you. And I probably would've had to paste you one getting the gun. And I don't hurt girls.
-->--''Film/SinCity''

->''Someone make her a dude so I can punch her.''
-->-- '''Troy Barnes''', ''Series/{{Community}}''

->''"I don't think I can hit a girl. They're soft."''
-->--'''Scott Pilgrim''', ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''

->''"Don't ever hit a girl. My grandma always told me that."''
-->--'''Travis Touchdown''', ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'', just after he [[spoiler:killed Kimmy Love aka Kimmy Howell]]

->''"I would never...EEEEEVVVER...hit a woman, but [[Wrestling/{{Chyna}} you]] are not a woman!"''
-->--'''Wrestling/ChrisJericho''', in a subversion of the trope.

->''"How do you want to fight? I can't use my fists on a girl!"''
-->-- '''Batman''', ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot''

->'''Black Manta:''' Heard you don't kill women or [[WouldntHurtaChild children]].\\
'''Captain Cold:''' You could learn from the Rogues' code.\\
'''Black Manta:''' [[LeavenoWitnesses I don't leave witnesses.]]

->'''Hellboy:''' Lady, I really don't wanna do this.\\
'''Vixen:''' You think I can't be a predator?\\
'''Hellboy:''' [[OnSecondThought Well in that case, let's do this.]]

->'''Red Hood:''' [[EveryoneHasStandards Even I have limits.]]\\
'''Joker:''' Let's hear what you got.\\
'''Red Hood:''' No women and children. That's the rule.
-->--''VideoGame/Injustice2''
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