In the original audio of the video the pregnant woman slaps the husband after he says this. It's a joke about how during labor there's alot of high emotions and stress that the mother to be is experiencing and how such a situation can be awkward for the nurses in the room to be involved in.
I was assuming something in that regard.
The woman is in an extreme amount of pain and her hormones are going wild. Having a man, who often can't even deal with a normal flue, say "It's ok, you can do this" can trigger a lot of aggression coming out.
(Especially because we sometimes lash out at people we consider safe in high stress situations)
Let's not excuse assault just because someone is going through a lot of pain and hormones. To me, this would be an enormous red flag. Probably not the first time she's abused her husband. It's quite fucked up
From experience I can tell you that there's a HUGE difference between an abusive relationship and someone once verbally lashing out because they're not themselves due to stress, hormones, pain, medication etc.
You are responding to someone talking about a man getting abused. If you respond by talking about how a little verbal abuse is understandable and normal, that's the definition of minimizing.
If a woman told me her husband struck her and I said "well, you know, sometimes emotions are heightened, people say bad things when they get upset," then you could see how that would be minimizing.
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u/darubus Apr 24 '26
In the original audio of the video the pregnant woman slaps the husband after he says this. It's a joke about how during labor there's alot of high emotions and stress that the mother to be is experiencing and how such a situation can be awkward for the nurses in the room to be involved in.