Women's magazine runs article on woman-on-man DV

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2008-12-30 17:09

Nice change! Article in "Marie Claire" here. Excerpt:

'According to a Penn professor who studies these things, every American man has about a 28 percent chance of being struck by a woman at some point in his life (in related news, the number of girls ages 10 to 17 arrested for aggravated assault has doubled in the last 20 years). And yet no one seems to take the phenomenon that seriously. Maybe it's because men, generally speaking, are bigger and stronger, and we assume there's a real limit to the physical damage women could actually inflict. We don't picture these scuffles resulting in bloody noses and black eyes or a trip to the station house. Furthermore, pop culture has made the idea of a pretty girl whaling on a guy a wacky comedy staple — Angelina Jolie smashing wine bottles over Brad Pitt's head in Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Cameron Diaz coldcocking Edward Burns in The Holiday were both played for laughs. But the reality of getting hit by your girlfriend isn't so sexy or hilarious.'

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My mother used to punch my father, he punched her back. As a child it used to scare the crap out of me, and I never understood the behavior. I was assaulted by my first wife, she slapped me in the face, I of course responded, and informed her that unless she wanted to get hit back again that she should stop. She did. My last wife tried the same crap. I have had girlfriends that have assaulted me with a knife. Wives of friends have struck me on the arm in public, and I always say the same thing. I ask the husband if he is going to defend his wife if she strikes me again, it usually gets the point across. This is nothing new folks, we have been brainwashed into accepting things that should never be. Women can and are bullies, passive agressive little children that need lessons on how to play with others.

David A. DeLong

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Submitted by David A. DeLong on Tue, 2008-12-30 21:15

I liked Mr and Mrs Smith. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie both gave as good as they got and violence against either one by either one was used for comedic effect. I really don't think that, with all the excellent examples of movies that use violence against men for comedy, this one should be in the top two that spring to mind.

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Submitted by DrDamage on Mon, 2009-01-05 09:15