the invisible man riding the donkey backwards

Was domestic violence ever acceptable? . Violence against women has always been abhorred by society, as evidenced by historical laws protecting women (and only women) and recorded incidents of convictions and vigilante justice. And what about battered men? Society never used to be able to afford to ignore them. Battered men were, in fact, ridiculed and held in contempt by communities, subjected to ritualized public humiliations rather than helped. Why? And why does society now ignore their existe