Keira Knightley in domestic violence ad

[DMB]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2009/apr/02/womens-aid-keira-knightley-ad

Perhaps it's a good move to get someone with her status to star in this. It might help make people more aware of the issue.

[purple_kathryn]

Perhaps someone should show it to Rhianna.

Sometimes you don't stand by your man (or woman).

[Tawny]

I think it is really powerful. Didn't they do something similar a couple of years ago? I seem to remember Fiona Bruce being made up to look like she had been beaten...

[Matty]

the single best ad about this is the film Nil BY Mouth.
I only ever knew one person who copped such shit and pretty much all of her guy friends cornered her then boyfriend and made it quite clear that if he ever laid a finger n her again he was fucking toast.

Probably not the "approved" way to deal with such a situation but he got the message and it worked well enough till she had summoned up the stones to leave him. And she of course knew that there were a bunch of people to turn to which is rarely the case i believe.

[Anne]

Perhaps someone should show it to Rhianna.

Sometimes you don't stand by your man (or woman).

What's scary is that american teens seem to think she was at fault...

[purple_kathryn]

Perhaps someone should show it to Rhianna.

Sometimes you don't stand by your man (or woman).

What's scary is that american teens seem to think she was at fault...

I have seen a few surveys were a surprising number of teen girls have said that in some circumstances it's okay for their partner to hit them. :dunno:

[Christina]

I grew up with a lot of Irish and Italian catholic girls who were raised to believe that being hit by their boyfriends or husbands was perfectly acceptable and to be expected and they were at fault when it happened. I was raised by parents who taught me to never let anyone treat me that way and I couldn't understand how anyone would tolerate that. This was all before the feminist movement and domestic violence wasn't something that people talked about much. Sometimes I don't think that younger women grasp how bad it was for women only 40 years ago.

[Anne]

Perhaps someone should show it to Rhianna.

Sometimes you don't stand by your man (or woman).

What's scary is that american teens seem to think she was at fault...

I have seen a few surveys were a surprising number of teen girls have said that in some circumstances it's okay for their partner to hit them. :dunno:

There's a small discussion on that idea here (http://www.rationalpagans.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4286). (not public)

[Matty]

I have seen a few surveys were a surprising number of teen girls have said that in some circumstances it's okay for their partner to hit them. I do hope that "those circumstance" are restricted to "If she is coming at you with a knife"

Otherwise that is terribly sad.

[premjan]

Well if you hit someone then you can expect to get hit back. Other than that, it isn't a good idea to permit violence against a weaker party.

[Anne]

I have seen a few surveys were a surprising number of teen girls have said that in some circumstances it's okay for their partner to hit them. I do hope that "those circumstance" are restricted to "If she is coming at you with a knife"

Otherwise that is terribly sad.

It's sad. Terribly.

She must have made him mad.