How Do People React When Theres Abuse in Public, But the Gender Roles are Reversed?
26-12-06 10:12 Age: 4 yrs BY: CLEM TAYLOR – ABC NEWS Category: Violent Women It’s the kind of sweaty summer day when you might expect tempers to be short. Even so, though, the scene on a park bench in northern New Jersey strikes bystanders as a bit odd. A young woman with fiery red hair leans over her hapless boyfriend, screaming in his face. “Nate, stop ignoring me!,” she implores, just inches from his face. He all but ignores her. “You’re not even” She pauses and moves her face even closer to his. “HelloHello!” she screams. At times her rage boils over to physical abuse: she pulls the young man’s hair, slaps the side of his head, and beats him with a rolled-up newspaper. Fortunately, the troubling scene isn’t real. The abusive woman and her boyfriend are actors, hired by “Primetime” for a hidden camera experiment. On previous shows, “Primetime” has staged scenes of abuse in which the man is the aggressor, and the woman is the victim. And in these situations, passersby men and women o
