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Why does the description only mention romantic relationships? Domestic abuse is often filial or fraternal and no less impactful in those cases.
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Good point. I think that some people, for whatever reason, have a hard time applying the term "domestic abuse" to platonic relationships, but your assertion is absolutely right.
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Because we have different tropes for other kinds of abuse: Abusive Parents, for one.
But what about abusive friendships? (Believe it or not, they do happen. Especially among women.) I don't think Vitriolic Best Buds covers that, like Dullahan asked above.
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I don't think we have different tropes for familial abuse outside of Abusive Parents.
...said the TC 3 years later.
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Question: does the Domestic Abuse trope apply in a scenario where everything pretty much fits the clinical description of the disorder but is never named in canon? Namely, a Vitriolic Best Buds pair who meet all the criteria for abuse except the romance, and even this is debatable. Even though they're 'only friends', one still routinely beats and degrades the other, to the point that if one of them were female the cops would've been called a long time ago. Does this still count, despite the lack of the romantic element?
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I'd say it's certainly an abusive relationship — domestic violence isn't limited to intimate partners or a parent-child relationship.
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Relegating Domestic Abuse to History
Most men still hit their wives. Combine India, China, and the muslim world and you've a majority of the world's population. It's foolish to think in terms of European and American history as the world's history.
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Midas Mint appears to be objecting to the tone of the opening sentence.
Really, this isn't much of a description overall. The first sentence says little of note and the second paragraph consists entirely of examples. I believe a rewrite is in order. ...OK, Wiki Magic further as you see fit.
See you in the discussion pages.
Considering that some feminists also minimize female-on-male abuse, I don't think you can point to 'the prevailing culture of machismo' as the only source of that particular double-standard. Unless they're also part of that culture.
"Most men still hit their wives."
Proof?
Just because China, India and the Middle East have large populations and are more tolerating of wife abuse does not mean that the majority of husbands in those countries are actually abusing their wives.
Isn't the Runaway exempel a bit of a strech here? I mean there was never any indication that the Karolina/Xavin relationship was abusive at all (at least not physically anyway) and compared to Klara's, where an child was abused by an adult, it seems weird to have it there?
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