History DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale / Music

* Music/RodStewart song "Maggie May" is based on the musician's a RealLife experience. He got abused by an older woman as a teenager, and he has said it was a traumatic experience. He wrote the song as self-therapy.

* Music/RodSteward song "Maggie May" is based on the musician's a RealLife experience. He got abused by an older woman as a teenager, and he has said it was a traumatic experience. He wrote the song as self-therapy.

* In what is supposed to be comedic (presumably) but comes off as just seriously ''disturbing'' is the music video for "I Pray for You" by Jaron and the Long Road to Love. The song itself is about the narrator grumbling about an ex-girlfriend who has treated him badly and praying all sorts of horrible things happen to her. But the video is just ''sadistic.'' The video starts with the man walking into the house, where his girlfriend throws several vases at his head and a hot cup of coffee in his face. The next scene has the man tied up in a bathtub full of water while his girlfriend teasingly dangles a hairdryer over him! The the man gives her a teddy bear. She cuddles it close and then kicks him in the crotch. She then proceeds to try and smother him ''with the teddy bear.''Later, she lays a trip-wire of dental floss that makes him fall down the stairs. And when he tries to leave, she runs over his car with a monster truck. And this is played as ''funny.'' If the gender roles were reversed, this would probably be the music video to a tragic song about the horrors of domestic violence.

* Music/CarrieUnderwood's "Before He Cheats" is all about a woman destroying her boyfriend's car because of the cheating he ''might'' be doing. The video says she was right in her unconfirmed suspicions, but there's no way she would be able to get away with it with [[TheUnfairSex the genders reversed]]. Let's see: "I dug my key into the side/Of her pretty little souped-up 4 wheel drive/Carved my name into her leather seat/I took a Louisville slugger to both head lights/Slashed a hole in all 4 tires/And maybe next time she'll think before she cheats". Um, yeah. Changing four pronouns changes the connotations quite a bit.

* "In Hell I'll Be in Good Company" by the Dead South is a perfect example of the double-standard in question. The singer described how he put up with years of abuse from his violent and emotionally unstable wife. She eventually got to the point where she stabbed him multiple times in an attempt to kill him; he killed her instead out of self-defense. The song continues to reveal that even though he killed her '''''in self defense''''' he's sitting on death row awaiting execution for her "murder."

* Music/WithinTemptation's "Frozen" has the wife [[KickTheSonOfABitch poisoning her husband's drink]] after he abuses his daughter. [[spoiler: This ends up averted - she ends up on death row for her actions and it is [[DownerEnding strongly hinted]] the daughter goes to an [[OrphanageOfFear orphanage]]]].

** Poor guy's probably hiding in the bar, terrified of his psychotic "girlfriend" (chances are she's not even his girlfriend, just an obsessed lunatic), hoping she doesn't come into the bar after him because he wouldn't get any help from the people around him.

* The music video to Music/{{Lit}}'s Miserable has the last seventeen percent of the video dedicated to the giant woman gleefully hunting down and devouring every member of the all male band. The whole thing focuses heavily on each man's terrified reaction and begging for their lives before she inevitably makes a meal of them. By the end of the video not a single member of the band survives. What makes it worse is that [[KarmaHoudini the woman doesn't receive any comeuppance and sonters off at the end scot free.]] It might not be as bad as some other examples on this list, but try imagining a girl group ''ever'' having a music video where they all die like that.

* PlayedForLaughs in the ''Music/{{Vocaloid}}'' video "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DffvrqrSuo4 I Don't Care Who, Somebody Go Out With Me!]]"

* Exaggerated in the music video for Otoboke Beavers' [[https://youtu.be/wyHYb7LdrF0 "Ikezu (Mean)"]], which is 19 seconds a girl slugging her boyfriend unconscious while yelling at him for not telling her when he was coming home the previous night. It's PlayedForLaughs, though, as the beatings are interspersed with her crying and shaking her fist [[ArtShift in a chibi art style]], and the video ends with the pair hugging it out.