The key problem with abusive relationships is that the victim is usually not aware that the relationship is, in fact, abusive. However, the vast majority of women, in Egypt specifically, normalized the concept of abuse a long time ago. Moreover, they keep on passing their inheritance to young girls. In recent weeks, many posts emerged on Facebook in which a few women told their stories describing their husbands going violent. These stories were shared on Facebook and labelled as ‘funny’. “My husband broke a plastic chair on me because I was wearing a red lipstick,” one woman said, adding, “He told me: are you a dancer?” Another one said that her husband got physically violent against her when she asked why she had to eat the leftovers of fish after the husband and kids had finished eating. “He beat me up because there was water outage and I couldn’t cook anything,” another woman shared. The stories were described as funny. They weren’t only labelled as such, but also normalized and described as “something that regularly happens,” according to many comments. While a segment of women now realizes that abuse is…
