Picture this. A man, armored in tattoos, bursts into a living room not his own. He confronts an enemy. He barks orders. He throws that enemy into a chair. Then against a wall. He plants himself in the middle of the room, feet widespread, fists clenched, muscles straining, face contorted in a scream of rage. The tendons in his neck are taut with the intensity of his terrifying performance.
He chases the enemy to the next room, stopping escape with a quick grab and thrust and body block that pins the enemy, bent back, against a counter. He shouts more orders: his enemy can go with him to the basement for a “private talk,” or be beaten to a pulp right here. Then he wraps his fingers around the neck of his enemy and begins to choke her.
No, that invader isn’t an American soldier leading a night raid on an Afghan village, nor is the enemy an anonymous Afghan householder. This combat warrior is just a guy in Ohio named Shane. He’s doing what so many men find exhilarating: disciplining his girlfriend with a heavy dose of the violence we render harmless by calling it “domestic.”
i really feel that the right wing wants to scratch the VAWA so as to be able to take ouit tere frustrations i would think mostly of themselves. not to forget the rape on demand entitlement.
hard to do these things against another man but oh so easy to come home and kick the crap out of your wife and pat the dog's head, this is the mindset of too many males in the world not to leesen but also the thriving of women in action movies.
But the way Shane assaulted Maggie, he might just as well have been a night-raiding soldier terrorizing an Afghan civilian family in pursuit of some dangerous Talib, real or imagined. For all we know, Maggie’s estranged husband/soldier might have acted in the same way in some Afghan living room and not only been paid but also honored for it.The basic behavior is quite alike: an overwhelming display of superior force. The tactics: shock and awe. The goal: to control the behavior, the very life, of the designated target. The mindset: a sense of entitlement when it comes to determining the fate of a subhuman creature. The dark side: the fear and brutal rage of a scared loser who inflicts his miserable self on others.
men have many reasons to beat on their women and the majority of them involve some sense of failure or self esteem, she's there, she's handy, and last likely to offer resistance in other words a safe punching bag. if youare going through an esteem thing that will not resolve it you will continue to feel the rage against "yourself", until something unintened happens by you or to you. kids unfortunately become collayteral damage then they are trapped in that same hell, some make it out others don't they abuse, to ease their own problems but don't understand that moment of release is followed in a moment and recaptured.
