Men not hitting women may be an “antiquated notion” because of co-ed sports and the gender equality movement, according to Fox News' Keith Ablow.

That was the Fox News contributor and “Medical A-Team” member's takeaway from a newly surfaced surveillance video showing then-Florida State University quarterback De'Andre Johnson punching a female student in the face at a bar.

Discussing the assault and Johnson's subsequent dismissal from the team on the July 8 edition of Fox & Friends, Ablow stressed that while he doesn't personally believe men should hit women, “that may be an antiquated notion if you look at our culture, which has just in a wholesale way dispensed with all gender quote-unquote stereotypes.”

Ablow went on to blame co-ed sports and a culture that tries to “dispense with the idea of gender differences” for an environment in which a man would punch a woman. If men are accustomed to competing against women in wrestling matches, Ablow said, then “when you're in a bar and she slaps you, you punch her in the face”:

ABLOW: Listen if you're saying that it's just fine to flip a girl onto her back in a wrestling match, and pin her to the ground and take some joy in that -- well then I guess if you're in a bar and she slaps you, you punch her in the face. Not in Ablow's world, because you'd never be wrestling her to begin with.

After emphasizing that “I like using the word 'girls.' I'm not going to stop,” Ablow added that gender equality is also making women more violent, pointing to “YouTube videos of girls, gangs of girls getting in brawls with other girls” that “didn't happen before” -- “when you bought the pink bear for the girl and a blue one for the boy.”