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It's not OK for women to punch their boyfriends
Link here. Excerpt:
'Kelly Brook has a new autobiography out. Whilst you contain your excitement, I’ll share with you what the publicity surrounding it caused me to ponder: why is domestic violence towards men still accepted (and even encouraged), and what does this mean for the new proposed laws surrounding "emotional abuse"?
Ms Brook has admitted to physically assaulting two of her former beaus, Danny Cipriani and Jason Statham, using the suggestion that they misbehaved as justification.
“As I headed back toward the table I saw Danny walking towards me. ‘Babe’ he said, ‘I’ve been looking for you’. I punched him straight in the face.”
A pretty unequivocal confession there, quoted direct from the book in the weekend’s tabloids, amidst numerous pics of Kelly in her undercrackers, just in case you had a fleeting temptation to reproach her.
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According to the charity Mankind Initiative, which issued a statement outlining disappointment at the lack of public backlash against Ms Brook, one in six men will experience domestic violence during their lifetime. It’s already incredibly difficult for men to admit they have been abused by their partners, without the media and celebrities further reinforcing the idea that women beating up men is no big deal and actually rather funny.
This latest example leaves me highly sceptical about the proposed guidelines surrounding "emotional abuse" and whether the press, law enforcers and society generally will take them at all seriously when they apply to men.'
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