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Businessman to have cosmetic surgery to heal horrific wounds after two years of abuse by his 5ft 1ins girlfriend
Submitted by Broadsword on Wed, 2012-01-25 05:48
Article here. Excerpt:
"A businessman who was beaten so badly by his 5ft 1ins girlfriend that he almost lost his arm is to have cosmetic surgery to heal his horrific scars.
Ian McNicholl, 49, from Hull, suffered two years of abuse at the hands of Michelle Williamson, including one attack where she sprayed bleach in his eyes.
He also suffered fractures to his skull, cheekbones, and nose, three cracked ribs and horrific burns on his arm from an iron at the hands of his ex-girlfriend.
Williamson, who is now serving a seven-year jail sentence for causing grievous bodily harm, also lit cigarettes and shoved them up her partner’s nose after falsely accusing him of having an affair.
On one occasion, she also poured two kettles full of boiling water over him - and even attacked him with a vacuum cleaner.
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He added: 'I can completely understand why some men will feel embarrassed speaking out - men generally don’t like talking about their feelings.
'But the bigger issue is that lots of men don’t know where to go for help and there’s a lot of gender bias.
'The massive problem is that men are not seen as victims. We need a gender neutral awareness campaign, or even a male-specific one.'"
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Where do you draw the line?
Men are indoctrinated to just take the abuse, without help from others, and not complain. But that standard needs to change when it comes to DV, as this article so clearly points out. I draw the line early on. If a woman refuses to pay her own way on a date, then that's it, goodbye. One act of physical violence, even "playful" hitting or slapping, then forget it, I'm not going to stick around and find out what else the little princess is going to dish out. Men need to draw the line much earlier than they have in the past. They also need to reduce the amount of abuse that they suffer before they seek help, complain, report the abuse to authorities, and later sue the woman for damages.