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In reply to the discussion: Call police about domestic violence and get evicted [View all]strategery blunder
(4,225 posts)You know, the wife-beater is actually the one beating the wife and creating disturbances of the peace and whatnot.
I don't really have a problem evicting violent criminals, as DV abusers are.
But hey, it's just easier for courts to evict everyone in the unit, even when the victim(s) haven't broken anything. It's easier to assign the female responsibility for the actions of the male, because hey we don't want taxpayers to possibly help with expedited rent assistance at all after the paycheck gets thrown in jail (so the victims can continue to hold up their end of the lease while putting their lives back together after the abuser is gone--naw, that'd make too much sense)!
It's the same general type of logic that calls rape victims sluts, and says that victims bring it upon themselves.
What a wonderful, DV-accepting, rape culture we live in.