Witnesses say the result of their fight looked like a “murder. She alleges her violence came after she was choked. Allegedly, she hit her boyfriend with a frying pan and broke a bottle over his head during an argument on Saturday.įOX news reports that police arrived to the scene to find the boyfriend semi-conscious and bleeding on the ground. Yesterday, I read a report that the stepdaughter of former New York Governor David Paterson was arrested after beating her boyfriend unconscious. Though there might be an allowance for self-defense, ‘no matter what she did, he should have kept his hands to himself’ seems to be the prevailing motto.īut what about when it’s the other way around? Most women take a zero tolerance stance on men hitting women. Only the near-deranged pointed a critical finger by wondering of abused women, “But what did they do to deserve it?” Commenters expressed sympathy for the women and by proxy, the children who often suffer as a result. In light of the proclamation, stories and pictures of women who had been abused poured in. He added, “This is not just a job for government it is a job for all of us.” ”One in four women and one in thirteen men will experience domestic violence in their lifetime.” “Despite tremendous progress, an average of three women in America die as a result of domestic violence each day,” our President reported. That question popped in my head yesterday when I was reading about a recent proclamation from President Obama about October being National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Should there be a double standard when it comes to domestic violence?
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