Committed a crime? No problem, cover it with makeup!!
For every woman in the world, domestic violence is one of the most hurting forms of violence one can face. Getting hurt by the person you are supposed to be the most trustworthy one around you must make every kind of feeling safe and loved collapse completely. Sad but true, in most cases nobody gets to know about domestic violence — women are ashamed, they do not want to make public that their marriage is not what it seems to be to other people. They try to say to themselves that their husband had a reason to do what he did, often enough they even blame themselves for being the reason their husband reacted like he did! Some are not able to escape that vicious circle for years. They stay because of the children, because of what other people might think, or because they are simply getting used to it and do not ask anymore whether it is normal or not. At least, in our country domestic violence is a crime, and it gets punished.
As if it was not horrible enough for me to read that domestic violence is not even a crime in Morocco, it shocked me completely that this TV show wanted to show Moroccan women how to cover up their domestic violence bruises with makeup! Sorry, but covering up bruises is like covering up the crime with makeup! It is like saying: domestic violence is kind of a defect within the marriage, like a liver spot in your face, but it is easy to cover it with makeup so that nobody will be able to see anything! It made me angry, it was disgusting to imagine how women must feel who experienced domestic violence at home reading this or seeing this video.
Okay, the TV station took the video down their website. But this is a defect they hopefully will not be able to cover up.
