Newsnight (BBC) section on domestic violence.

DruchiiConversion · 2012-04-25T06:26:35+00:00

To explain for those who cannot view iplayer links:

Starting at about 34:00 is a segment on domestic violence.
It portrays only women as victims of domestic violence.
They do take an example wherein a same-sex female couple experienced domestic violence, showing that women can be abusers just as much as men.

Here is a transcript of the complaint I sent. Please do not send them one unless you have watched the segment - stay classy.

"The overall quality of the program was excellent. I am not complaining about Newsnight in general, which is superb quality, and I watch regularly.

I felt the segment on domestic violence was hard-hitting, and had good production quality. The people interviewed were credible, bright, and framed their issues well. However, the focus was to a huge degree on women. In domestic violence cases, scholarly study suggests that roughly half the victims of domestic violence are men, but there was no coverage of this at all. In one section of the show, for example, the previous victim of domestic violence spoke to a politician, with her goals being to discuss how the government were going to "prevent it from happening to other young women". It would have been far more inclusive to discuss instead how to prevent it from happening to anyone.

Earlier in the show, another victim was interviewed who had experienced abuse in a same-sex relationship. I thought this was an excellent step, since it showed that in domestic violence, it is not the case that men are always the abusers and women always the victims - clearly women can abuse just as well as men. However, I feel it would have been better to include even a token mention of how men can be the victims as well.

Even going as far as showing women as abusers is a progressive step, and I would commend the BBC on this. I do however feel, as a victim of domestic abuse myself, that a step even further would have been useful."

Title	Newsnight (BBC) section on domestic violence.
Author	DruchiiConversion
Upvotes	6
Comments	1
Date	April 25, 2012 6:24 AM UTC (14 years ago)
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