The common belief of all who oppose a gender neutral approach to domestic violence is that it is always the man’s fault. This belief came into effect because people think that there is always good reason as to why a women hurt a man. In today’s culture, violence against men is often deemed justified (Gulas, Mckeage, Weinburg, Mark, 2010). When a women attacks a man it is only because she was defending herself from the males patriarchal views or he was abusing her in some way prior to her attacking. The abuse that a man afflicts upon a women that pushes the woman to retaliate does not have to be physical. Feminists have changed the meaning of abuse …show more content…
Ephesians 5:33 says “Let each of you love his wife as himself and let the wife see that she respects her husband.” Again the bible only talks about how a marriage should be. The bible does not need to talk about how a domestic abuse case should be acted upon because there should not be domestic abuse in the first place. Instead of fighting over gender biases and how cases should be treated, everyone should be focusing on what the bible says and what it says is that there should not be abuse to begin with. In other words, everyone should follow Luke 6:31, otherwise known as the “golden rule”, “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” According to the bible, the struggle is not related to gender. The problem is with sin. Today, people are focusing on the wrong issues. Instead of focusing on the root of the problem, everyone focuses on the outside of the problem. Domestic abuse needs to be fought against as a whole. The focus should not be on the