Domestic Violence is not a male thing

There are women who are very generous with slaps and other forms of physical violence. There are women who would destroy things in the house at the slightest provocation. All those men who were butchered in their sleep have been experiencing domestic violence long before their death.

When I address domestic violence, I don’t ever make it a gender issue. A violent woman or man is violent irrespective of gender. The first time a lady slapped me in public, instead of slapping her back or doing something else, I became shy. I was conscious of the environment and what people would think about me.

This isn’t much different from what many men go through in their relationships/marriages, but the fear of what people would say keeps them from speaking out. Make no mistake about it, we have more cases of violence against men than you can imagine. In our fight against domestic violence, we need to advert our minds to the fact that violence isn’t a masculine thing. Anybody can be violent.