Not All Abuse Is Physical, and the Legal System Should Better Reflect That
Otherwise, innocent people are punished, and the guilty walk free.
Post a Picture Or It Didn’t Happen
One of the most common things I see posted on Social Media is requests from pages to post your pictures of your weekend plans, post your pictures of your family moments, to post your pictures of your jobs, etc. But, you have to post a picture, or it didn’t happen. There needs to be physical proof of something, or it didn’t happen.
So, what if you missed capturing the moment? Or, what if the moment wasn’t an actual event, but a thought or feeling as you sat there being in the moment? Can a favorite memory be watching your child sleep? Or maybe you were reading something that brought you a smile as you thought about someone. But if there was no picture, the happy memory didn’t happen.
In Definition, Not All Abuse Is Physical
So, what about abuse? If you don’t have a picture, then it didn’t happen? If there is no physical evidence, then it didn’t happen? And even further, the bias that only men are abusers, so if there is no physical evidence on a man, then no way any abuse could have occurred, right? But the very definition of…
