// [TRIGGER WARNING: DOMESTIC ABUSE]//

aboutmaleprivilege:

Your coworker is full of the shit of bulls. Men who abuse joke about abuse all the time. The point of abuse is that it is not seen as “abuse” by the abuser. The abuser often plays the victim and convinces onlookers and even the abused person(s) that they are the one at fault, the one “driving [the abuser] to [abuse]” etc. etc.

This is why a joke can be very telling. If someone is willing to joke about abuse, casually even, clearly they don’t think it’s a big deal. This is why abuse goes unreported. This is why toxic situations are so hard to escape from for so many.

This is why the victim is blamed.

(Source: all-about-male-privilege, via rapeculturerealities)