I see the topic of domestic violence has been trending on Twitter. How refreshing. What’s even more refreshing is the number of men who are talking about domestic violence all of a sudden.
I didn’t know they cared.
These are probably the same men who each week play football with their mates who they know can be ‘a little handy’ with their wives. Or who go to the pub on a weekend with their mate whose wife made some accusations against him but, no need to fear, he says she’s a crazy bitch so we don’t really believe her anyway. The same men who buy the records of men who’ve been accused of domestic abuse, or go and watch the films they star in. Not so worried about domestic abuse then, are they? But now suddenly these men, and women, who never talk about society’s most uncomfortable truth of male violence are outraged about domestic violence and have taken to Twitter to demonstrate it.
But wait, who is their anger directed towards? Surely it is Stanley Johnson who on Thursday night’s Qu…