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'oh tenderheart please!' no wonder he punched her... (Thank you for that Koorbeel )

Yes it was in the script biatch! =P (Enlightened stuff from jumpyg1258 )

Moving the debate on we encounter the thoughts of brockal

Thank god somebody cut through and got to the real issues. Thanks Brockal...

To be fair, there's a more informed debate that continues later (earlier?) in the 44 video comments present at the time of writing, concerning the nature of Woman's Aid as a campaigning organisation - its methods / messages; and comments regards the absence of depictions of woman on man domestic violence and the real problems existing there.

But essentially, it's YouTube - what did I expect? It's all about the PWNing and the Lulz ,right? I should get over it.

This video has reminded me of a machinima piece on Domestic Violence I saw at a conference on interactive media a while ago: 

Now, despite this using a gaming platform Sims , where some prejudices might expect the LOLTwats to gather around to leave dumb-ass messages at the scene, the comments that appear here are altogether more considered and informed: mainly decrying the one-sided nature of the depiction of gender violence.

One video's had nearly the same number of views as the other - circa 35K as of today. So why all the stupid hate on the Woman's Aid film and not the Sims? Maybe people just don't respect Keira Knightley as much as they do Sims?

I'm not sure that leaves me any more comforted about the YouTube community...

Keep th' faith,

Article Dan