Why Do Women Allow Men To Beat On Them?
I hope you don’t mind, but this is going to be a long answer. First of all I want to say that violence against women is NEVER the womans fault and it is NEVER about love. The woman that is exposed to the violence may believe that it is about love for reasons I will explain here. There are many myths around violence against women. For example people believe there is a certain type of woman that is exposed to violence, but in reality women from all kinds of professional fields and social classes become victims. And the same goes for the men that batter – they work in all kinds of professional fields and are from all kinds of social classes. Another myth is that the men that commit these crimes are “not normal”, they abuse alcohol, they are drug addicts or foreigners and so on. This is NOT true. Most “ordinary” men are in full possession of all their senses when they batter their women. A third myth is that violent men are victims of their own childhood, but in my country for example (Swe
