Could you imagine if a gender reversed remake was made of this?
The women's rights groups would want the filmmakers put in jail!
Sure, it's not right for a man to hit a woman. But the opposite is no better.
It's understandable that society scorns men who hit women. But for some reason, they're surprisingly tolerant of it when a woman hits a man.
Note that I exclude self defense cases. That's a different story. But they even scorn men who retaliate against their physically abusive wives/girlfriends. When a man retaliates against his abusive wife/girlfriend, this somehow magically erases anything she did wrong. He is the abuser, and she is the victim, even though she beat him first.
I'm not saying society is too hard on woman beaters, but they need to show the same level of scorn to women who abuse men.
Case in point: In the real world, after he beat Rihanna, Chris Brown instantly became the poster boy for men who beat women. It's very hard to find an article about him that came out since then which doesn't at least briefly bring up him beating Rihanna.
A few years later, actress Emma Roberts beat up her boyfriend. Since then, the overwhelming majority of articles about her make zero reference to her being an abusive girlfriend. It got swept under the rug, while people STILL bring up Chris Brown beating Rihanna, even now.
Anyways, back on track...
Yes, I know Jennifer Lopez's character in this movie was a victim who retaliated against her abusive husband in self defense. But if a gender reversed remake of this came out where there was a battered husband who had his wife viciously beating him, only to have him retaliate at the end, the women's rights groups would denounce this as a misogynistic movie that should be illegal. The male character would be denounced as a coward and a murderer, not a hero who stood up for herself like Jennifer Lopez's character in Enough. Even though the stories would be more or less the same.
And for those of you who think I am sexist...I am not. I know women who believe that society is too tolerant of women beating men, and should be as harsh on them as they are on woman beaters.
My point is that a woman who beats a man deserves every bit of scorn that a man who hits a woman does. Abuse is abuse is abuse...it doesn't matter what gender the abuser is or the victim is.
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