My mother is literally worse than my father, but of course movies and tv shows love their cliches and never show reality for what it is.

Also wtf is the “Abused child forgive abusive parent and reunite happily ever after” trope, fuck that shit. Abusers do not deserve forgiveness.

I hate writer jesus christ ffs.

Edit: typo

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    Ok. You named a handful of examples. I’m sure there’s a handfull more.

    But I could literally reach the character limit if I attempted to show all the examples of men in media being the abuser.

    So you aren’t wrong per se. But you are still missing the point.

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      OP said “always” and “never.” So I’m not really sure what the purpose of this discussion is beyond refuting those superlatives. Is the idea that there needs to be more physically abusive women in fiction? Or fewer men? What is the ideal?