Aware's anti-domestic violence video draws flak

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An eye-catching campaign video by women’s advocacy group Aware has been making the rounds on the Internet, with close to 4,000 views on Monday night.

The three-minute long video, hosted on YouTube and part of Aware's We Can! Singapore campaign, showed three fictional scenes of a man abusing a woman who is acting as his girlfriend.

Along different stretches of Orchard Road, including outside Takashimaya and Ion Orchard, the man was seen scolding her, using vulgarities and physical aggression, drawing a lot of stares from bystanders.

Three kind-hearted people – a Caucasian man, a Caucasian woman and a Malay man – then stepped in during the filming to warn the ‘boyfriend’ to stop his aggression towards his ‘girlfriend’. They also offered to call the police for the ‘girlfriend’.

A host then came in to tell the Good Samaritans that the ‘abuse’ was part of a video to raise awareness on domestic violence in Singapore. She also told them that it was a test on whether Singaporeans would step in to help.

While the video managed to catch the attention of netizens, it’s been drawing flak from YouTube keyboard warriors.

Aware revealed in the video that one in 10 women in Singapore had been physically abused by a man, with six in 10 victims suffering repeated violence.