Domestic Abuse Isn't Right, No Matter Your Gender

In a video on YouTube, it got over 8 million views on an advert from the UK with the hash-tag, "#ViolenceIsViolence." I had watched it about a month ago, and somehow hadn't really heard about it before. And the video, to sum it up, is quite ridiculous.

In the video, a woman and man who are acting out domestic violence in a public area, although the woman in the first section is getting yelled at by the man. He pushes her and yells and screams and says much profanity, and everyone around stares and shakes their heads. Then a couple of men come near them and tell the man to lay off the girl and to stop fighting before things get more serious. Even a group of girls say to him to stop, and to the girl that "she doesn't have to put up with that." This is the usual response to these type of things when it comes to females.

Although, they turn it around. The man and woman walk out to another public place, and the woman began to yells this time and hits him. People are shown snickering and laughing at the scene. She continues, and everyone else just smiles and continues with their day. In the end of the act, no one even speaks up to her.

See something that is a little wrong? In the description of the video it reads, "40% of domestic violence is against men in the UK." I took a step further and found on WebMD that more than 830,000 men fall victim to domestic violence every year, which means every 37.8 seconds, somewhere in America a man is battered.

Woman still get abused, but men is overlooked. All the time. I am not saying that woman don't go through being battered, but so do men, and sometimes we need to realize that people are people, and abuse is abuse.