This is one that comes up and people always seem to go to one extreme or the other.
The stance that a man and a woman fighting is wrong (or any more “wrong” than one might call any violence) overlooks some important things- like consent and autonomy. Women are not alien creatures, they are people. As a general trait women tend to naturally have less muscle mass and lower amounts of certain hormones that are generally advantageous for many feats of physical strength or endurance. That does not mean that ALL women do and when we start to discuss “superhuman” type characters the only assumptions we can carry in to physiology are what cannon tell us or what experience or bias we bring from the real world- which has no inherent bearing on a fictional universe inhabited by people who’s physiology and even biology vary from our own.
In the real world men and women or partners etc. - especially trained/experienced fighters and athletes can and do spar, play fight, or even compete against each other. It’s about the details and informed consent. Take fender out of it. In almost all disciplines or even just “playground rules” when two people spar or play fight they are generally not trying to draw blood or hurt each other. You might feel some pain inherent to fighting, but just that- not intentional injuries or such. Who wins a fight is not always who appears to have advantage on paper, and people, especially fighters often like to test themselves. So regardless of gender if two seemingly mismatched fighters both understand the stakes and want to engage, that is what it is. Conversely you can often or generally tell when you are completely outmatching someone. In such cases you might prudently be expected not to… kill them? Cripple them? Beat than savagely? Beat them perhaps, and that beating might inherently bring
some pain etc- but proportionality. So in a fight “to the death” with no rules- whoever wants to live should give their best regardless of who may have advantage. In a mock or play fight or practice etc. there are other things to observe and generally your goal is NOT to kill or badly hurt them. Some people can’t respect a partner that can’t stand equal to them in their passions- and that includes fighting. I’ve known plenty of female fighters who wouldn’t date a guy who they could easily beat up, and plenty who didn’t care if you could fight but maybe did care about your lifestyle and wether it matched theirs as far as some physical activity and health etc. so it’s a mixed bag.
The stance that a man and a woman fighting is wrong (or any more “wrong” than one might call any violence) overlooks some important things- like consent and autonomy. Women are not alien creatures, they are people. As a general trait women tend to naturally have less muscle mass and lower amounts of certain hormones that are generally advantageous for many feats of physical strength or endurance. That does not mean that ALL women do and when we start to discuss “superhuman” type characters the only assumptions we can carry in to physiology are what cannon tell us or what experience or bias we bring from the real world- which has no inherent bearing on a fictional universe inhabited by people who’s physiology and even biology vary from our own.