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'Glee' star charged with domestic battery after allegedly hitting husband.

'Glee' star charged with domestic battery after allegedly hitting husband.
Source ABC News & Daily mail

Naya Rivera was arrested and charged with domestic battery after allegedly hitting her estranged husband, Ryan Dorsey. The two announced their split last year after two years of marriage. According to some sources Ryan Dorsey sustained minor injuries. She was later released on bail

I chose This article because I feel like compared to men women are let of lightly when it comes to them being abusive towards men, because women are often shown as the main victim to abuse. Men are often perceived as this strong powerful person but in reality there just the same as women, but when people hear these types of stories where a woman is abusive to a male people often take it as a joke, due to the traditional stereotypes. 
Another example where domestic abuse was not taken seriously was shown in an episode of Jeremy Kyle where Father-of-two Geoff was on the show to confront his ex-girlfriend Danni over claims she had been cheating and abusive. Father of two talks about one occasion where he had to jump out of the window of a three story building because his girlfriend locked him in the room. ‘He said. 'I ripped all my arm open, all my back, my legs - the lot, and I ended up in hospital.' After he stating this crowd began to laugh. Jeremy Kyle then snapped back by saying;

'It's not funny, though is it?'
'Can I tell you why it's not funny - and I don’t want to upset anyone in the audience because I completely appreciate the fact that you're here - but I'll tell you why I don't think you should laugh.
'If this was the other way around and if a woman was sat here and a bloke had locked her in a flat and she’d been forced to jump out and injure herself you would not be laughing.
'You would be saying he is a complete nightmare, he should be locked up and that's disgraceful but somehow if it happens to a bloke that's funny. That's not funny. That's not funny is it?'

These two stories come under the representations of gender, issues which are domestic abuse, violence.

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