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Post by Warren on Jul 19, 2004 22:28:39 GMT
Maya mentally abuses Dev and then displays violence and assaults him with heavy metal and glass objects. Surely a clear case of domestic violence? But he doesn't report it and his best friend doesn't encoarage him to do so. Why? In fact the concept of Maya being punished or even being wrong in for her actions isn't even mentioned.
Maya and Frankie sit in the pub goading each other about doing their respective partners over with a bread knife. Now if it was a Mark and Frank sat there saying these things, there would be all hell let loose. Why the double standards?
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jul 20, 2004 22:24:49 GMT
  Very. It was good of The Bill to tackle women abusing men. You'd never get boyfriend/husband battering in Corrie though because they don't want to make the feminist viewers realise that goes on. And I am a woman and think the whole thing is sexist.
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Post by Nick on Dec 30, 2004 18:09:58 GMT
You often get these double standards...when Shelley punched peter barlow in the face everyone cheered..if it had been the other way there would have been an outcry...and Shelley is a stapping lass who can pack a punch
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Post by Nick on Dec 30, 2004 18:10:31 GMT
I meant Strapping
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Dec 31, 2004 19:16:29 GMT
Yes. That's stupid feminism for you. I remember Liz McDonald getting hit by Jim. Such an outcry yet she bloody deserved it. People forget she admitted to an affair and wound him up until he snapped.
Patsy
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Post by Nick on Jan 1, 2005 11:20:47 GMT
I wouldn't go as far as to say anyone 'deserves' a slap..but the double standards do annoy me,My brother (who shall remain nameless) was constantly attcked by his wife with knives and punches etc.... ,that was in the days when men wouldn't admit to being abused..yet if it had been him doing the abusing..he would have been reviled by society
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 5, 2005 18:11:02 GMT
It depends what they've done to get slapped. Though most of the time in all relationships just breathing the wrong way does it. I do hate the double standards too. There's that International Women's Day. Well, where's the International Men's Day to highlight their physical and mental abuse?
Patsy
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Post by Nick on Jan 19, 2005 19:00:09 GMT
As much as i don't think ANYONE deserves to be hit,some women go on and on and goading their hubbys...almost daring them to hit them
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Feb 26, 2005 22:56:25 GMT
As a woman, I say damn right, Nick. Because, as Alan once accused Rita of being, there are women out there who do enjoy it. Gives them a sense of warped power over men.
Patsy
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