I want to take a few minutes of your time, if I may, to discuss a very important issue. The issue of domestic violence has been covered and studied and looked at a lot; however, a significant number of people have been excluded from the research and from the solutions: Men.
Reason-Bullies
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- Category: Essays
- Published on Friday, 30 December 2011 01:30
- Written by Damien Moody
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One of the biggest challenges for men who have survived domestic violence are the "reason-bullies". These are people - both men and women - who keep, on the surface, a calm demeanor and insist that since they do not believe that whatever happened to the survivor is not the norm, he should stop being a "victim" and move on. This usually works in conjunction with the fallacy of modern society to go along with sound bytes and mass media reporting that conveniently packages things into very small - and therefore inaccurate - views of reality as a whole.
