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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"A man has a little fight with the wife and they say this is a crime. See?"
Trump said this just now at some kind of religious meeting. He is trying to say that DC crime is down to nothing now that he has taken over, but his adversaries are trying to come up with minor issues that are not really crimes to tarnish his record.
So if a man has a "little fight" with his wife it's not a crime, according to trump. He even called that a much lesser thing and things that happen in the home. And he feels free to say this in public, knowing that he'll get little pushback.
underpants
(197,180 posts)Not all fights turn into domestic violence but dismissing them all sure sounds like its no biggee to him.
Irish_Dem
(82,341 posts)Hitting, raping their wives? Stealing their wive's paychecks for booze, gambling and women?
electric_blue68
(27,322 posts)It would be great if it was 0.
But at least educating boys that girls are their equals would most likely reduce the cases of domestic violence by a major amount in the future.
(If you can't convince current sexist, and violence-prone men, otherwise)
😬😔
Irish_Dem
(82,341 posts)Unfortunately all of the progress made just made men furious.
Hence the current state of affairs where women have targets on their back.
Much of the progress is being rolled back or strongly re-considered by males.
electric_blue68
(27,322 posts)While not perfect when Clinton was elected President I was listening off & on to el rushbo (keeping an eye on him so to soeak), soooo many men called up to say they should take the vote away from women.
They hated his leaning towards empathy. And they sure hated Hillary.
Irish_Dem
(82,341 posts)Some men cannot tolerate sharing power with women.
Ilsa
(64,569 posts)Too bad the ex-wives' financial support was contingent on staying silent on what a brute he is.
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