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Related: About this forumMoroccan state TV shows women how to hide domestic violence
Source: The Guardian
Moroccan state TV shows women how to hide domestic violence
State broadcaster Channel 2M demonstrates how to cover up
bruises with makeup and carry on with your daily life
Maev Kennedy
Sunday 27 November 2016 14.51 GMT
Women in Morocco have reacted in horror after a programme on state television demonstrated how they could use makeup to cover up evidence of domestic violence.
The segment in the daily programme Sabahiyat, on Channel 2M, showed a smiling makeup artist demonstrating how to mask marks of beating, on a woman with her face made up to appear swollen and covered with fake black and blue bruises.
We hope these beauty tips will help you carry on with your daily life, the host said at the end of the segment, broadcast on 23 November two days before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
The response was immediate, and outraged. A petition signed by hundreds of women demanded an apology and sanctions against the station. One man tweeted that the segment had left him speechless.
The channel has since removed the clip from its website, but it has been circulated on Twitter:
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State broadcaster Channel 2M demonstrates how to cover up
bruises with makeup and carry on with your daily life
Maev Kennedy
Sunday 27 November 2016 14.51 GMT
Women in Morocco have reacted in horror after a programme on state television demonstrated how they could use makeup to cover up evidence of domestic violence.
The segment in the daily programme Sabahiyat, on Channel 2M, showed a smiling makeup artist demonstrating how to mask marks of beating, on a woman with her face made up to appear swollen and covered with fake black and blue bruises.
We hope these beauty tips will help you carry on with your daily life, the host said at the end of the segment, broadcast on 23 November two days before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
The response was immediate, and outraged. A petition signed by hundreds of women demanded an apology and sanctions against the station. One man tweeted that the segment had left him speechless.
The channel has since removed the clip from its website, but it has been circulated on Twitter:
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/27/moroccan-state-tv-shows-women-how-to-hide-domestic-violence
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Moroccan state TV shows women how to hide domestic violence (Original Post)
Eugene
Nov 2016
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sheshe2
(83,754 posts)1. Holy Shit!
Normalizing violence against women.
We already know, perhaps they should be telling woman how to report abuse and not cover it up.
niyad
(113,302 posts)3. but we will not hold our breaths for that to happen.
this post goes right along with mine on why women have to pay the price for safety.
niyad
(113,302 posts)2. disgusting, but not surprising in patriarchy.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)4. I read an article abou this very thing
I am so sick and tired of all the disrespect being shown to fellow human beings in the name of all the supremacies. Weak insignificant people holding on to some perceived power over others is going to destroy this human race, civilization and planet. And we all really do know its going to happen. Just a matter of when now IF we don't come together real soon and get our collective shit together.