Tag: Domestic abuse

HONY excuses male violence, vilifies the victim yet again

Well now this is starting to look like a pattern. Last week, Humans of New York (HONY) published the story of a man charged with domestic abuse, allowing him to paint himself…

Humans of New York: Believe women first

A recent post over at Humans of New York brought out the livid in me. The image is of a young man; his story aims to convince us that he was wronged…

Of monsters and men

The house I grew up in has two bedrooms on one side of the house, a long hall, and then a master bedroom. I remember the living room as a sterile space…

PODCAST: The Perfect Victim

A new documentary looks at the cases of four women — victims of domestic abuse who killed their husbands in an attempt to escape the years of torture inflicted upon them. They…

Sadistic abuse is not romantic

At a time when many of us are working flat out to help young women avoid controlling, manipulative, emotionally and physically violent relationships, comes a film which presents these behaviours as romantic.…

On Ray Rice and why it doesn’t matter if she stayed

As many of you are already aware, a new video of Baltimore Ravens running back, Ray Rice, surfaced on Monday that showed him punching his then-fiancée, Janay Palmer, in the head. In…