Recently Wayout TV, a Damon Wayans project, put out this video on YouTube. It features a young man who, after hearing his girlfriend is pregnant, calls on Abortion Man to fix his problem. This "super hero" then proceeds to find the young man's girlfriend and repeatedly punch, kick, and stomp on her until what we are meant to believe is a bloody fetus flies across the screen.
In short, it is horrifying.
Violence against women is not funny. This video is especially egregious given the fact that women are at greater risk of violence during pregnancy than at any other time in their life. It is important to note as well given the perceived ages of the two people in the video that pregnant women between 15 and 19 are at a higher risk for homicide than any other group.
Producing this kind of "entertainment" is not edgy, or cool, or funny. It's irresponsible at best. Making light of violence against women gives tacit approval to abusers and would-be abusers, and tells the rest of society that this type of violence is really no big deal.
H/T Feministing
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I clicked on that video last night, completely by accident, and was just as shocked by it. I don't get what was supposed to be funny or edgy in that at all. I guess that just makes me a humorless feminist and a gender traitor.
Or, you know, a decent human being,
This is just stupid. I am not even sure what part of it is suppossed to be funny..... I found myself feeling like the actors were the biggest idiots for agreeing to be a part of something so bad.
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