Why Does It Hurt So Much? There’s 318.9 Million people in America alone. Forty-nine percent is male, and Fifty one percent is female; but yet, we still get treated like crap? First it was women suffrages, which happened in August of 1920s. To now, we’re still getting look down, we looked at each other as competition, while the male population is looking down at us, just basically kicking the dirt in our eyes, words and pain. Especially domestic violence.
One in four women will experience domestic violence in their lifetime (Jennifer Weis). Many would say that domestic violence is affected by drugs and alcohol, but it could also be coming from history of past. Unfortunately, it is not always a male hitting a woman situation. Sometimes it can be a woman hitting man situation. Here 's a story: Tila is a wonderful wife in Trinidad and Tobago but however had a horrific dark side, she was in her late forties. As an limited canteen worker, she was a mother with two grown children, who were study abroad. However, she was living in a common-law relationship with …show more content…
Weis, shows how much domestic violence increasingly changed overtime. In, 1999, the rate of women who suffer through domestic violence was 22.1 percent. The next year, the rate increased by 3.4 percent, which is not good. Kentucky has the rate of 36.6 percent, which exceeds the national average. Now if we look over in Bulgaria, many other countries say that domestic violence rate is low. Maybe it’s because the fact that they have strict laws about it, which would make women feel more safe. Or maybe it is because that men were taught to not hit women or for women not to hit men. To be honest, I wish they would simply just do the same thing in the United States. Yet, it hurts me that we act this way but we are to be the land of the free and home of the brave. It makes me want to fly away and maybe move to Denmark and live
One in four women will experience domestic violence in their lifetime (Jennifer Weis). Many would say that domestic violence is affected by drugs and alcohol, but it could also be coming from history of past. Unfortunately, it is not always a male hitting a woman situation. Sometimes it can be a woman hitting man situation. Here 's a story: Tila is a wonderful wife in Trinidad and Tobago but however had a horrific dark side, she was in her late forties. As an limited canteen worker, she was a mother with two grown children, who were study abroad. However, she was living in a common-law relationship with …show more content…
Weis, shows how much domestic violence increasingly changed overtime. In, 1999, the rate of women who suffer through domestic violence was 22.1 percent. The next year, the rate increased by 3.4 percent, which is not good. Kentucky has the rate of 36.6 percent, which exceeds the national average. Now if we look over in Bulgaria, many other countries say that domestic violence rate is low. Maybe it’s because the fact that they have strict laws about it, which would make women feel more safe. Or maybe it is because that men were taught to not hit women or for women not to hit men. To be honest, I wish they would simply just do the same thing in the United States. Yet, it hurts me that we act this way but we are to be the land of the free and home of the brave. It makes me want to fly away and maybe move to Denmark and live