Intimate Partner Violence(His Story).
In a world where patriarchate is heritage
nothing has been left to chance about the male dominance – man is the head, and
woman the neck. Women troop-demonstrated to Beijing and declared, on a
platform for action, how violence is meted on them by men. Well, it is true
women are the most abused, but there are other silent – and innocent – victims
often neglected and never heard or not listened to.
Some men take Kenny Rogers words to heart(‘…son you don’t have to
fight to be a man…’). This crop of men folk cringe, and turn the other cheek
when they can’t walk away, at the face of violence(perceived or real). Thence,
their women find punching bags, many a time target practice, in them.
In
the name of combating rape, and other violence directed at women, there are
many dangerous women – 12th Dan black belts – on the prowl in world’s
boroughs who have been unleashed by different dojos. Nevertheless,
instead of using their sensei-inculcated-tactics on the monsters that trail
them in cahoots they use their Bruce Lee techniques on their sweethearts(of
course when the man of the house pushes a little further to assert his
maleness).
The tragic stories that abound in intimate relationships and marriages –
from spouses killing each other in the middle of the night to marital related
suicides – have made headlines on both print and electronic media.
Not very long ago(last week actually) did the broadcasting stations tell
the whole world of a man who had been beaten up, and injured seriously, by the
wife following a brawl about the family radio in Nyeri, Kenya. When the rest of
the world was enjoying Christmas last year December , the media vultures were
busy broadcasting live a man being beaten by his wife on all TV stations for
allegedly abandoning his matrimonial duties in Nairobi, Kenya.
These and many other horror stories of couples suffering in the
sweet arms of their lovers overabound. It is a trend that has become a
norm, but only the ever vocal(and obviously the eternal abused and violated)
fairer sex tells the world what they are going through. In a society where
macho is a quality for masculinity men have suffered in silence fearing female
tongue lashing and bruising their egos and injuring their precious prides.
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