Is cooking the only reason a man marries a woman? Is a woman of no value to her husband if she is not fulfilling the duties that patriarchy has heaped on her?

There is no reason valid enough to justify domestic violence. But at wedding, physical altercations between a bride and groom are mostly laughed at. Why?

Darlings skillfully draws attention to the pervasive social ill of domestic violence, while exposing the brutalities of toxic masculinity.

Zulfi and Shamshunissa’s romance isn’t the focal point of Darlings, but we do need to talk about it.

Society should not assume that a woman’s call for help is just her weakness of not being able to handle problems in her marriage.

In a video circulating online, Kaur recalled how her husband had held her hostage in a truck and assaulted her for days.

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court transferred a woman’s case to the city so she could monitor the progress of her domestic violence case against her husband.

Tiwari claimed that if she had her streedhan she would not have had to sell her gold ornaments for survival and medical expenses. She said, “I had planned to ways amicably. However, Praveen told me that he would not give me a divorce and that I could move the court for it.”  

Domestic Violence is wrong – it doesn’t matter who faces it. The way we are raising awareness about domestic violence against women, we need to uplift men too who are subjected to this evil. We have to create an equal society and not another dictatorship.

This graffiti, though, was in a bad taste say a section of internet users and they were concerned as to how Heard is being subjected to this kind of public hatred and humiliation while most men accused of abuse did not face similar repercussions.