beats her and gives her a black eye when he gets jealous??
I'm a progressive female and I'm actually with Chuck on this one. It wasn't because he was jealous, and he was not the aggressor in or the instigator of the situation. She dumped him for Ren without bothering to actually break up with him first, she hit him when he got (understandably) pissed off about that. He hit her back once in retaliation - wrong, but a knee-jerk, heat of the moment reaction. Instead of walking away then - which Chuck himself was doing; it's not as if he just kept beating on her - she decided to destroy his truck with a metal pipe instead, giving him two options: allow her to shatter his windshield, or physically stop her. He chose to physically stop her, and I would have done the same.
I absolutely hate that scene, because the movie expects us to feel sorry for Ariel and see Chuck as a monster. And while Chuck was a redneck and yes, kind of a jerk, he was NOT the one at fault for that altercation - Ariel brought it upon herself. Men should not hit women, but that doesn't mean women should just be able to do whatever they want with no repercussions.
As to your OP, clearly Shaw didn't know about all that stuff. How would he know about the truck incident? (Which again, was primarily Ariel's fault, and Chuck's share of the blame was shared with her friends.) How would he know she was having sex in the woods with Chuck? (Again - also not Chuck's "fault"; he didn't rape her, it was consensual.) The most he could have known was that she was seeing Chuck, and since he was a local and his father was a friend and colleague of Shaw's, he probably thought he was "safe". When I was 16 I dated a guy in his 20's and my father had no idea. Teenagers hide things from their parents. It doesn't mean Shaw was a terrible father.
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
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