Female-on-male domestic abuse is a terrible problem for those who suffer from it, but the reason it is not acknowledged as much is because women, by and very large, cannot cause as much physical damage as men. Emotional damage, yes, but not physical. A woman who is killed is most likely to be killed by a man; a man who is killed is most likely to be killed by a man. The abuse of Janay Rice and the death of Reeva Steenkamp – and of Nicole Brown Simpson, while were talking about brutalised partners of celebrity athletes – remind us, were reminders needed, that men can cause unimaginable physical damage to the women they say they love. As a Johannesburg-based attorney told the Guardian yesterday, Masipas ruling sends out “a very negative message that you can kill someone and claim it was a mistake and get away with it”. And this is an issue that, of course, goes far beyond celebrity. In South Africa, a woman is killed by her partner every eight hours. In the UK, two die a week. Perhaps Masipa was right after all. Perhaps this was a “normal relationship.” But that doesnt make it right.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:25:29 +0000
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