The backlash against Blake Lively claims to be calling for more meaningful discussions about abuse against women. But all the comments, Reddit threads
Hannah StapletonAs a woman who has suffered an abusive relationship, Roe McDermott understands only too well the importance of discussions about abuse against women. But the backlash against Blake Lively is showing us the opposite: society loves hurling abuse at women, and we will use any justification to do it.Last week, I went to the cinema on my own at 10.30am. It’s not as sad as it sounds – I was attending a press screening of a new film.
It brought up my own journey of being in an abusive relationship. The way I had fallen for him. The small incidents I ignored. The boundaries I didn’t keep. The excuses I made for him. The way I explained away his behaviour by focusing on his difficult childhood. The way the abuse got worse, but was followed by declarations of love and romance, and the way I always latched onto the latter.
Lively has been the subject of endless headlines calling her a ‘mean girl’, her Instagram comments are full of criticism, old interviews where she was snarky to journalists have been pulled up as evidence that she’s unlikeable.
Baldoni’s interviews about the film have been thoughtful and enlightening, focusing on the themes that hit me hard when I watched the film: the insidious nature of abuse; the way that we still blame women for staying with men who hurt them instead of blaming the men who hurt women; and highlighting the still terrifying statistics around intimate partner abuse and domestic violence, which.
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