I have just watched last night's Casualty and there was a scene where a male member of staff got slapped very hard around his face by a woman because he lied to her. The storyline/scene was written to be seen as something humorous and the other actors in the scene laughed when it happened and the whole thing was staged to be something funny and something to giggle about.
AIBU to feel a bit put out by it?
I have never understood why showing women being violent towards men is absolutely fine and considered amusing. If the clip was reversed and a woman got slapped round the face by a male I doubt everyone in the scene would be laughing and would instead be calling the police!! It just surprises me that even in this modern day it is still being classed as funny and acceptable for women to hit men and it be something that women are 'allowed' do just because we are socially seen as the 'weaker sex'.
It's the same when a soap character finds out her DH/DP did something unforgiveable, she starts screaming at him, slapping him, pummelling his chest, throwing things at him etc and it is seen as understandable and acceptable and I doubt many viewers bat an eyelid. But reverse the genders and we'd be horrified!!!
I just don't get it.
Men being violent towards women is horrific but surely it should work both ways? An old friend of mine was physically abused by his girlfriend, he used to turn up covered in bruises and scratches from her latest attack. It was awful. He put up with it for well over a year, probably because he was too embarrassed to admit it was going on.