None of those people should've been attacked in the first place. The whole point is: demonstration OK, violence not OK.
With the notion of women being equal to men therefore violence against women is the same as violence against men you should understand that women are given equal status to men in a somewhat idealised sense. In reality most women do not have parity with men in physical conflict, simply a matter of greater bulk alone.
But the point to convey here is not that women are de facto equals of men in physical confrontation (it all depends). The point is to convey violence towards any people who are peacefully going about their business is not OK, not even if they are extremely physically fit men in the prime of their life. Sanctity of your body. Your body is not to be abused and/or mutilated by someone else at will, no matter who you are or who the other is.
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