» settler - men and abuse
I was just thinking about why it happens now and maybe not before so much.
The only advantage that a man has in not being abused is the fact that he is bigger and stronger, but there is emotional abuse, verbal abuse, and so on and the only advange a man has against these is to control and HIT.
HITTING! But that is against the law and abuse as well. So there is little wonder that there is male abuse. We have been equaled out by the law, but men are still singled out. In this day and age hitting a woman who is out of control is unconcevable. It is twenty years in prizon even if she was abuseing you in every other way. So what do men have for protection. Nothing more than a woman has.
A man can abuse in all of these other ways just as a woman can, but a man can go one step farther and then he is done for. If a woman goes that fare it doesn't matter, it doesn't leave a mark and they generally just don't do it. But we can not go there anymore so we don't have any advantage in abuse any more.
Hay! Hitting anyone is wrong so jail for that is an option for both sexes. But anything less than that, and woman defenitly has the advantage in.
I don't mean this to attack woman or belittle anyones abuse, but men can also be abused and are.
Settler
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