Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31492005-20180306150245/@comment-31492005-20180506022742

Jentaisenpai wrote: @ Mako Fanboy, has Sakura ever put Naruto into the hospital?

Her rage-induced punches aren't strong enough to put him into a hospital, but they certainly physically hurt him a lot. She's physically hurt/abused him countless times in the anime. Good thing the manga is much fewer.

Has Sakura ever given Naruto mental illnesses?

No. She's never mentally abusive, which is a good thing.

Does Naruto hate Sakura for hitting him? Did Naruto stop being friends with Sakura because of the abuse?

No, yet he married the gentle and soft-spoken Hinata. Huh, I wonder why... Praise God he married Hinata.

Real abuse is when the victim is sent to the hospital and given years of therapy because of their mental and physical state. And what does Naruto get when Sakura hits him? Just a couple of bruises that heal in 0.1 seconds.

In fact, abuse is all forms/types/amounts of emotional and especially physical pain inflicted by the abuser. Also, Naruto's bruises last much, much longer than a tenth of a second--at least for several dozens of full seconds, not fractions of a second. Anime doesn't criticize it because of Japan's double standard of "women can abuse men, but not vice versa". Abuse is still abuse, regardless of how long it lasts for or who does it. If men and women are truly equal, then abuse from a woman is equally as bad as abuse from a man.

If you can't handle a little bit of violence, why do you watch Naruto? Abuse is violence, fighting is violence, playing around with fire and burning people is violence, destroying people's organs is violence, gentle fist and ninjutsu is violence. Naruto is one of those shows that revolves around "violence". If you think what Sakura does to Naruto is equal to the things that the show revolves around, why do you watch things like this?

I only hate when the violence is one-sided and when the victim doesn't defend him/herself. I hate when Naruto doesn't defend himself from Sakura's rage-induced punches/abuse/etc. I also hate when she didn't defend herself from Sasuke's murderous attempts against her. I can watch a lot of violence, but only with a lot of self-defense to equal it.

Temari also hits Shikamaru and Shikadai, what do you say to that? She even flung them out of the house with her giant fan in Boruto.

Which is why Temari was rated to be the worst wife in Boruto on a YouTube video. Did you forget I criticized all Tsundere girls in general--the violently abusive ones to be more specific?

Kushina punched her own son on the head when he first met her, what do you have to say to that? Kushina even beat up a genin when she was still in the Academy.

Criticized all Tsundere girls, remember?

Neji tried to kill Hinata during the Chuunin exams because of something she said, what about that? Sasuke and Naruto always fight, they even got their arms lost. Does that count as abuse as well? I mean, it's violent, they lost their arms and they had to wait for Sakura to come save their asses before they bled to death. Does that count as abuse too? Hmm, I wonder......

Their violence was mutual, and they were defending themselves. That's fine as long as they're all defending themselves from violence. Self-defense is the most important quality.

P.S. If you genuinely love Sakura, then you should want her to treat Naruto much better. Do you think it's fair that she only treats Sasuke and Rock Lee so perfectly well, but when it comes to Naruto, she shows her ugly/dark/violent side? That's unfair on Naruto AND herself. She's hurting not only Naruto physically but also her own reputation of one of the good women of Konoha. Do you think any good woman in real life would punch a man if he does something goofy, silly, or even perverted? No, she wouldn't. Violence is never the answer. Why does Sakura only treat Sasuke and Rock Lee so perfectly well, but she mistreats Naruto like a punching bag? That's completely unfair. The physical abuse is never funny. It's just extremely annoying and disgusting. Not to mention it degrades Sakura's reputation of a good woman. Naruto deserves better treatment from Sakura, and she deserves to be written better from Kishimoto. Simple as that.