DO NO HARM

We Eat together, we Sh*t together

 

If anyone was wondering about the long hiatus in blog posts (3 weeks to be exact), I must apologize but for the fact that I was serving my national reservist duty in the Singapore armed forces, something most of us Singaporean guys have to do for once a year for ten years of our lives after we have completed 2 years of full time service to our country. People from different walks of life are picked regardless of profession and bunched together into a group of men trained to protect the tiny island of Singapore (shan't reveal much less the military police catch hold of me)

They F***ed You Up?

This is right from the gut

It's sometimes heart wrenching and oftentimes sad to observe children become the greatest casualties amidst the crossfire between their parents. As Social Workers, we want to deconstruct the situation within its context through understanding the intergenerational patterns of transmission of values, societal pressures, lack of fit in environmental systems, problematic interactional patterns etc. 

I like the way it hurts

 

 

Eminem's video "I Love the way you lie" has received considerable flak from several critics who feel that it glorifies domestic abuse in households. In the video, actors Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan reenact Eminem's own abusive relationship with his wife. Feminists are angered with Rihanna's response to the abuse (herself a victim of violence by Chris Brown), where she loved the "way it hurts", and still remains in the abusive relationship.

I follow up from my previous post on family violence, with the feminist perspective that violence represents an issue of power and control where physical dominance and cultural clout is used to subjugate the oppressed gender. As much as there are elements of power and control, I think eminem's video brings in the idea that the violence and turmoil in relationships is as much an interactional process where the patterns of violence tends to continue.