Some months ago a girl I know peripherally took to social media to report her domestic violence. The girl is a local model, a legit 9 in her early 20s from a pretty good family. The pictures of the abuse were grotesque. One eye was sealed shut, her face was purple, there were stitches, and an ear was nearly hanging off. It was obvious her new boyfriend (tatted-up and dumb-looking) had done this. She changed her status to single, and removed him from all of her social media.
The post went viral, accumulating hundreds of likes/shares/comments. Many of her friends (all equally as hot and models too) were offering sympathy and people from the wider community were chiming in to support her.
Of course, many misty-eyed white knights filled the comments offering a shiny shoulder, bleating about the "coward" who did this to such a "beautiful princess" - and would she want to meet up to talk about the "bastard" over a bottle of wine sometime, and he would never hit a girl.
I had a problem with her posting these pictures, but it fits in with the exhibitionist nature of women that has been exacerbated by social media. I want all domestic abusers and rapists to be prosecuted by the law, not Facebook.
I would have put money on her running back into the arms of her abuser before the week was out, but because of the amount of attention all of this received and the extent of her injuries I seriously doubted she'd have the audacity to do this.
This week one of my female buddies had liked a new picture of this particular girl and so it showed up on my timeline. In it, she was showing off her "bump". My first reaction was surprise - how could she have moved into a new relationship so quickly (the domestic violence happened only back in September).
But I was wrong, of course, and you can guess who the father actually is.
Tellingly, the comments, likes and shares are flooding in for these new pictures. Hundreds upon hundreds of positive comments and heart emojis, some comments from the same people who were in fits of hysterics about the abuser just a few weeks ago. This is a girl who has chosen a violent thug to be the father of her child, with the stitches barely healed.
Nobody is questioning why she didn't choose one of the dozens of nice-guy, white knights from before. Weird.
This has irritated me for a few reasons. Women (especially those with high SMV) reward abusers. As a single guy dating lots of chicks, I'm privy to many horror stories from women about past relationships and the abuse they received. I used to think these stories weren't true - but I was wrong, some of them are. Women are freely choosing these men. While fat third-wave feminists complain about the Bad Things men do, they should rather be looking more closely into the hotter ones rewarding this bad behaviour ad infinitum. The resounding chorus of approval from all of her girlfriends highlights another problem: that women can do no wrong.
But the main reason this has disturbed me is because a child is being introduced into this toxic relationship.
The post went viral, accumulating hundreds of likes/shares/comments. Many of her friends (all equally as hot and models too) were offering sympathy and people from the wider community were chiming in to support her.
Of course, many misty-eyed white knights filled the comments offering a shiny shoulder, bleating about the "coward" who did this to such a "beautiful princess" - and would she want to meet up to talk about the "bastard" over a bottle of wine sometime, and he would never hit a girl.
I had a problem with her posting these pictures, but it fits in with the exhibitionist nature of women that has been exacerbated by social media. I want all domestic abusers and rapists to be prosecuted by the law, not Facebook.
I would have put money on her running back into the arms of her abuser before the week was out, but because of the amount of attention all of this received and the extent of her injuries I seriously doubted she'd have the audacity to do this.
This week one of my female buddies had liked a new picture of this particular girl and so it showed up on my timeline. In it, she was showing off her "bump". My first reaction was surprise - how could she have moved into a new relationship so quickly (the domestic violence happened only back in September).
But I was wrong, of course, and you can guess who the father actually is.
Tellingly, the comments, likes and shares are flooding in for these new pictures. Hundreds upon hundreds of positive comments and heart emojis, some comments from the same people who were in fits of hysterics about the abuser just a few weeks ago. This is a girl who has chosen a violent thug to be the father of her child, with the stitches barely healed.
Nobody is questioning why she didn't choose one of the dozens of nice-guy, white knights from before. Weird.
This has irritated me for a few reasons. Women (especially those with high SMV) reward abusers. As a single guy dating lots of chicks, I'm privy to many horror stories from women about past relationships and the abuse they received. I used to think these stories weren't true - but I was wrong, some of them are. Women are freely choosing these men. While fat third-wave feminists complain about the Bad Things men do, they should rather be looking more closely into the hotter ones rewarding this bad behaviour ad infinitum. The resounding chorus of approval from all of her girlfriends highlights another problem: that women can do no wrong.
But the main reason this has disturbed me is because a child is being introduced into this toxic relationship.