Friends were telling me about a husband who was a victim of marital abuse. Their response to this was to say, "God bless him. The man's a saint!"
Men can be victims of spousal abuse as well as women, but reactions to male victims are vastly different from those directed towards women who are subjected to the same.
Women who are married to abusers are often criticized for the abuse they endure. They are often targets for gossip and looked down on for marrying "someone like that." The most common response towards women is "Why doesn't she just leave?"
This is just wrong.
As far as responses go, we have two wrongs going on here. The first is to blame victims instead of abusers. The second is to apply different standards to women victims than to men.
Unfair, gender-based, response to domestic violence and spousal abuse is rampant and is evident, across the board, in more compassionate responses received by male victims as opposed to the, often callous, responses received by women who are abused or battered.
Differing weights are an outrage to the LORD and a false balance is not good ~~ Proverbs 20:23
https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Submit-Christians-Domestic-Violence-ebook/dp/B0CG6Q77QY
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