Awareness, Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 08/20/2009
Percentage of Women Who Believe It’s OK For Husbands To Hit Them
Image via Global Health Magazine
Just in case you haven’t seen this chart yet (via Jezebel and Feministing) it depicts the percentage of women who believe that their partner would be justified in hitting or beating them.
I know that the argument of “men are abused, too” always comes up when I bring up domestic violence. And it’s true, men are abused as well, and it’s a very serious problem.
But here’s the difference: what would this chart look like if men were asked the same question? How many men would think having their wife beat them would be okay?
Of course I can’t know the answer to that, and I could be proven wrong. Maybe men also think that it’s okay for women to abuse them, that they …
