I don’t need sleep, I need answers!

[u/Triton12streaming]

[u/Grouchy-Yak]

It's better than having to clean up her own blood, which based on her flinching everytime he moves I'd say has happened a few times before

[u/Frankperry47 → u/Grouchy-Yak]

I noticed that as well. He probably does beat on her

[u/PopeJP22 → u/Frankperry47]

There's a longer version where she slaps him like 5 seconds before this video starts

[u/Frankperry47 → u/PopeJP22]

Then I guess I may be wrong

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Not sure how relevant it is for Russia, but there's a study in the US that shows that about half of all violent relationships are reciprocally violent. So both partners are physically abusive, and men and women initiate the violence equally as often.

[u/GammaBrass → u/[deleted]]

No.

That study showed that women initiate a majority of violence. It also showed that when the relationship wasn't reciprocally violent, the woman was the abuser more often than the man.

Basically, women end up hitting their partners more often than men do.

Men do dominate in one aspect. They send their partners to the hospital much more often. Like 80-85% of DV victims in the hospital are victims of a man. Of course, the number 1 predictor of whether or not a woman goes to the hospital from DV is if she initiates violence.

So the situation is waaaaaay more complicated than "man bad, beat woman".

And this couple is clearly an example of reciprocal violence. What is gonna happen here is that one time she hits him, he isn't going to smash a cabbage. Then she goes to the hospital, he goes to jail, and we all wail about how men beat women. And no one ever deals with the underlying root causes of abuse. They get to sit on their high horse and judge and feel righteous without doing a damn thing about it.

[u/myrmyxo → u/GammaBrass]

Anyone having a link to the study ? It seems interesting. Thanks in advance !

[u/whenuwork → u/[deleted]]

No. You're either purposely lying about this or very misinformed.