Brigette macron hits Emmanuel

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has anyone seen this on the news?! What do we all think, it’s all a bit bizarre

The Spas are lovely, my dear.

Except I said earlier that I believe that survivors of abuse are incredibly strong people. If you perceive that he can’t run a country because he’s been abused that’s on you. Someone who has been abused doesn’t automatically make them weak and incapable of leadership. I had a boss who was abused by her partner. She was still an excellent boss and lead her team really well.

I have also repeatedly said ‘if’. We’re discussing a lot of hypothetical situations, including in my post that you quoted. I haven’t said he is being abused throughout his life, I said his wife has been violent towards him once and that is more than enough.

I’d rather my leader be someone who has empathy having been through a difficult life Situation than a disgusting prick like Johnson who is the one who treats other people like absolute shit.

ETA I also said that I didn’t expect him to read this discussion but if people who do think this sort of thing read this thread and it even slightly changes their mind then I’ll keep coming at it with empathy and understanding. This thread isn’t for Macron is it? He’s not reading this. It’s for us lot to talk about female on male abuse.

No but it would certainly make the behaviour more understandable. There must have been a reason for it. When they step out of the plane he expects her to take his arm and she doesn’t. That is one mega pissed off woman.

You would never victim blame if it was the other way around . .

Urgh. What a take. It’s got to be his fault? That she was violent? And there a possible reason why it might be ‘understandable’?!
This thread is full of utter shit.

Godspeed to those of you who remain, I’m out.

What if he goaded her and the whole thing is a setup?

I'm not saying it is but we just do not know.

There's alot of (understandable) projecting from some who have suffered domestic violence on this thread.

And if she is doing so, of course it's despicable. But we just don't know the whole story here.

Where did I say that it’s got to be his fault?! I said I will reserve judgement because we don’t know what he did.

Saying you’re waiting to find out ‘what he has done to deserve it’ is victim blaming and literally saying it’s his fault?

It’s a terrible, terrible view point.

Anyway, as I said, I’m out.

For anyone interested, I was watching the French TV channel BFM TV and there is a discussion going on there right now about this. My French is ok but they are speaking very flipping fast and I can't see any option for subtitles as I can read French better than I can understand it as spoken!

Anyway, this is what I scraped from a report on BFM associated with the discussion and fed into google translate.

Emmanuel Macron insists he was "simply joking with his wife," as they do "quite often." From Hanoi on Monday, May 26, the French President responded to the Associated Press footage filmed Sunday upon his arrival in Vietnam at Hanoi airport. Emmanuel Macron denied any "domestic dispute" between him and his wife.

It would not, actually.

Maybe the "reason" is that she's a horrible, abusive person.

You have twisted what I'm saying there. I did not suggest being an abuse survivor makes a person weak or unfit for office. I said that if it was thought that Macron was conducting his role whilst under the power of his wife, there would be many people who would feel this compromised him. If he is in fear of her or under her control then people would not be confident that she were not exercising influence. As for the thread not being about Macron, then thats my mistake as I thought from the title it was.

I have never been a Domestic abuse survivor so I am not projecting or getting triggered but I think the attitudes of some people on here are disgusting.
You are right, we don't know what led up to this but we DO know she hit him in the face, which is pretty indefensible.

I've never hit another person, no matter how "goaded" I had been. So if your theory is correct, then he must have known that she would react with violence. Therefore it stands to reason that she has been violent with him before. Regardless, it's not his fault.

It is quite unbelievable how some posters are trying to excuse her. If she was a 39 year old teacher in this country having an affair with a 15 year old student she would be in prison.

This unbalanced relationship has continued and in spite of clear evidence of her physically abusing her husband - still people are trying to excuse her. It is very very odd.

I remember in the 90s when pictures came out of Paul Gasgoine's wife with a battered face after he'd hit her. The papers were full of accusations that it must have been her fault and she probably goaded him into it because he was known for having a temper. And it was all forgivable anyway because he was a great footballer.

I was a teenage at the time but it sickened me even then. I'd hoped the world had evolved into being more civilised in 2025 but this thread is showing me otherwise.

It's very disappointing.

His face didn't look to me like they was joking and messing about, he looked like he was recoiling to not get hit, only when he realised his abuser had been seen and he needed to damage control did he smile at the crowd. He's excusing her behaviour in order to protect her, something I've seen my mother do and 2 of my friends do. I just hope one day he does find the strength to leave her.

Can't believe some people on here are trying to justify/excuse her behaviour. If shoe was on the other foot and it was him that shoved her in the face, they'd be none of this understanding/excuses for the abuser. If it is unacceptable for a man to be violent to a woman, it is unacceptable for a woman to be violent to a man. No excuses, No double standards.

We don't know do we? Really.

I am lucky enough to mot have experience of domestic violence directly, but there is something about his body language that says to me this isn’t the first time. Though the fact that there relationship isn’t healthy or normal shouldn’t be a surprise, she was a sick predator whether it was legal or not.

Anybody claiming this man isn't in a abusive relationship needs there head checked

He looks so fake when he notices he has been seen

How so?

Yep.

he just looks like a politician does when they ar covering something up

certainly does not look like someone enjoying a joke with their wife.

I hope he has been cheating on her for years and has had some actually normal relationships tbh. This horrible woman groomed a child, one that she was in a position of authority over as a teacher, and has kept him under her control for all these years. Of course he is an abuse victim, he was a child and she was a fully grown woman old enough to be his mother.