Double Standards: Why Is Violence Against Women Viciously Condemned But Against Men High Fived?

Last month there was a clip that surfaced on the internet of a supposed Nyeri woman beating her clearly super sloshed and scrawny lover in public.

(P.S that was not a Nyeri woman, the accent was not from the region. Just because there is a woman beating man somewhere, it does not always mean it Is Nyeri women who did the beating.)
But I digress. The said woman ferociously kicked the man while people stood around and just watched and watching, cheering looking thoroughly entertained. With the entrepreneurs in the crowd saying that they would be taking the video and selling it to NTV.

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On Tuesday, a picture started circulating on social media of a man whose buttocks were badly scalded. His crime was that he could not keep it in his pants and the lover had to ‘teach him a lesson’.

Just yesterday, another video of a man beaten by his Mpango was Kando and with her cronies sanding around some of them giving shouts of approval as the woman beat the man with a wooden cooking spoon. The man was receiving the said beating from the mpango wa Kando because he had decide that he needed another side dish to the side dish.

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Before I continue, since when did Mpango wa Kando have rights to make demands? You are making demands as who? You are the freaking mpango wa kando not the wife, know your place! In fact if anyone should have been angry it should have been the wife.

If the tables were turned and these 3 incidences of violence happened to women, Social Media would have been on fire and everyone would be baying for the perpetrators blood.

So this begs the question, when it comes to violence, is it subject to double standards? Do we decide whether it’s right or wrong depending on whether it’s a woman or man getting beaten up?

If we are outraged when a woman gets beaten then why do we mock, cheer on or just go on our way when it’s our male counterparts?