It
has been revealed that strangers react differently when seeing domestic abuse
depending on the gender of the aggressor.
A
video filmed with hidden cameras at a London parks shows a male actor attacking
his ‘girlfriend’ in front of onlookers who immediately rush to help her, with
one shouting: Oi mate, what’s wrong with you? The man is even told by another stranger that the police will be called if he carry on with what he is doing
before another passer-by says to the woman: ‘You don’t have to put up with that
honey, he’s not worth it’.
However,
when the roles are reversed with the same actors – but this time, the woman is
the aggressor, attacking the man and saying: ‘Don’t try to walk away – listen to me
when I’m talking to you.’ Instead of passer-by reacting the same way they did
when the man was the aggressor, nobody watching even attempted to help the man.
The actually seem rather to be entertained by the incident, stopping to stare
and laughing about it.
The
videos were filmed with three hidden cameras on May 16 for the Mankind
Initiative, a charity based in Taunton Somerset, which aims to provide support
for male victims of domestic abuse.
The
clip was made just days after multi-millionaire rap mogul Jay Z was punched and
kicked by his wife Boyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles during a violent
confrontation in a lift in New York.
What this has once again
proven is that it is easy for a woman to say a man physically abuse her but
when a man says the same thing, people find it hard to believe. But every day,
men are being abused by their partners and yet nobody sees it as a crime or
even takes it serious. Instead they laugh.
Hope this will open the
eyes of the authorities responsible for these kinds of situations and kill the
bias attached to women violence against men.
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