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Originally Posted by Withano

I know the Truth didnt make a point but I'd imagine hes trying to highlight the inequality of men
Firstly shut up
Secondly how can we compare a woman lightly pushing a guy around because he was texting somebody else, to a man screaming and pushing a woman to the ground with force in retaliation to his wrongdoings
What a terrible experiment.

It was more than "lightly pushing a guy around". Sure, the guy's retaliation was more aggressive (in the first instance, not so much in the last one yet that wannabe hero still felt the need to jump in only when he retaliated), but the woman was still being plenty aggressive. As for focusing on "his wrongdoings", I find it hard to believe that people would be as forgiving if a man was "lightly pushing around" his girlfriend just because he suspected her of being unfaithful and putting all the blame for the situation on her faults. The only one ever to blame for violence in a relationship is the instigator of the violence, male or female irregardless.

Actually, that reminds me of another one of these experiments I saw (one where the level of aggression from both parties was pretty equal). One woman walking past while the woman was being aggressive did a little fist pump and when asked about it afterwards said "I just assumed he deserved it". Yet in the very same experiment, nobody voiced anything close to that attitude when the roles were reversed.

I know people ever bringing up the situations where men are disadvantaged is taboo on here for some reason but it isn't always unwarranted and to do so doesn't make someone a woman hater or a "meninist". Where domestic abuse is concerned, clearly there's still an issue in regards to the way female-on-male aggression is seen and I think it's good for it to be talked about. Actually, it isn't even confined to domestic abuse, the number of times I've seen a woman slapping a man (and not "lightly" either) used for comedy on TV and film is ridiculous.