| When you hear the words, "domestic abuse" what do | | | | stop her assault and she bites him on the arm hard |
| you think about? If you think like the average person, | | | | enough to leave a full ring of teeth marks. Does he call |
| you think of that poor woman getting beat by her | | | | the police and report this domestic abuse? Well no of |
| husband/ boy friend. I know I was even guilty of buying | | | | course not as her blows did not affect him at all. When |
| into that stereotype till I started looking into the actual | | | | he shows the bite mark to church leaders and explain |
| numbers and the logic behind why the numbers are | | | | what happened do they call and report the abuse? |
| biased. | | | | Nope they laugh and think it's funny that a grown |
| ABC did an unusual experiment. They placed actors in | | | | woman resorted to biting like a child. |
| the park acting like a couple having a domestic dispute. | | | | Now if the roles were reversed everyone would have |
| On a previous show they had the man be the | | | | called the police to have him arrested for domestic |
| aggressor. He pushed her around yelled and made it | | | | abuse. We all think that men are the only ones capable |
| look pretty convincing. Almost everyone that saw | | | | of domestic abuse, however the real issue is when |
| them came to the aid of the woman. They called the | | | | men do the abuse it often causes real injuries. Most |
| police or actually got physically involved. However, on | | | | women that beat on mean usually do not cause any |
| this show the tables were turned and the woman was | | | | injuries that require a doctor's visit unless they use a |
| the aggressor. In this show very few people got | | | | weapon. Does that reason make it any less abusive? |
| involved. One woman actually cheered the aggressor | | | | The top reason that men do not report abuse is that |
| on in her abuse of the man. I sat stunned "Wow how | | | | they think there has to be injuries for the abuse to be |
| can it be that we allow abuse from woman but when | | | | reported. If there are no injuries, who is going to believe |
| it's the man getting abused its ok?" Even a policeman | | | | the man was the one abused? It's not likely that the |
| did not stop the abuse nor did he get involved. How is | | | | woman in most cases will not cause any injuries unless |
| that acceptable? | | | | there is a weapon involved so it will be a case of his |
| Example: Man and woman are having argument over | | | | word against her word. Even still it's a stereo type that |
| the internet being turned off. The argument makes her | | | | men should not report the abuse as it will make them |
| angered enough for her to start wailing on him. He just | | | | less of a man. |
| looks at her and laughs. He then grabs her wrists to | | | | |