Racer!
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It's called benevolent sexism, and it's absolutely a thing. Earlier in the thread, I maintained that he shouldn't have escalated things, operating from the assumption that he at struck her off camera. You, operating from that same assumption, disagreed with me. I'll own that, and I stand by it. Perhaps if all he did was document her abuse, he would have stood a chance at getting full custody, or at least shared custody with a majority of the time with the kids.
I never did think this was a one-sided battered wife situation, though. Just that he was making an already dysfunctional situation even worse. Women who are routinely abused aren't the type of people throwing things at their husband. They don't try to make waves. They're quiet, and afraid. I have a relative who experienced that.
Congratulations? On being right with this story, though. Not sure sure if both parents being angry and violent to each other is the best outcome in this, but at least one side here gets to say "I told you so," now that we have more facts. I'm not being a dick when I say that, either, because a lot of hateful assumptions and character attacks were thrown towards those with your opinions in this thread (and to be fair, also those with opposing options), and that doesn't help anything. It's why I intentionally tried to argue from logic and fairness over emotion and generalization.
You seem to have a strong involvement with this thread, but I haven't noticed you too much outside of it. Perhaps you're drawn to this fight for some personal reasons, just like I've posted in a lot of 2nd amendment threads. Regardless, just from my own history, I'd suggest not letting it get to you too much. I'd say to you like I'd say to anyone, if 90 percent of your posts are about politics rather than the aspects of video games and pop culture that you enjoy, then you're doing it wrong. I've definitely had to remind myself of that before, so please don't take it as an attack.
Cheers.
Thank you for a well thought out post.
I agree with most of it, and youre probably right in that I am drawn to this for personal reasons.
Nice to be able to have logical discussions and not to have "wife abuser" and "incel" accusations thrown at me for my (and others) opinion.
"Arguments" like that are absolute poison, and should be dealt with accordingly.