I'm genuinely not sure if this is supposed to be serious or you're a troll. This isn't what happened at all in this scene. I completely support feminism, but this is a totally dangerous misread of this scene that drags this show through the mud of being misogynistic for no legitimate reason. In that scene, the domestic violence wasn't supposed to be a joke or played for laughs. The comedy in the scene was that the two characters -- Drew and Dory -- are two 20-something millennials who don't know how to deal with conflict and are too scared of confrontation to investigate what is possibly domestic abuse going on. They're both socially conscious enough to know that they should probably do something, but they're cowards and are too scared to actually act. Thus is the paradox of the modern millennial -- all concept and no execution. The dark comedy in this moment lies in the fact that a lot of us can relate to those characters. How many times have some of us overheard something like this and just didn't know what to do because we were unsure about how to handle conflict? Or were too apprehensive because we didn't want to accuse someone of doing something wrong in case it was a misunderstanding and we might embarrass them and ourselves. It's a common issue in a society that has slowly bred out the ability to manage conflict, and THAT was what was supposed to be darkly comedic about the scene. It's absurd that we're so scared of embarrassing ourselves that we'll avoid speaking up about overhearing a violent fight going on in the next room. Nobody was supposed to laugh at domestic abuse.
Also, once again I think you completely misread the narrative intention with the neighbor character. We weren't intended to think that the neighbor was a foul mouth and therefore deserved domestic abuse, or that it was ok that she was getting hit because she was hitting back. That's ridiculous. The whole point was that Drew attempted to "do the right thing" and be brave, but he couldn't really back it up when she started freaking out on him. He had good intentions, but he's still an awkward, emotionally stunted hipster. So when the neighbor started freaking out on him -- because she doesn't want or need his help -- he backs down. If anything, the moment was feminist. It set up a typical cliche moment where a concerned male neighbor would swoop in and save a woman from being abused, punch out the *beep* boyfriend, and come out the hero, but quickly subverted it and revealed that, despite his best intentions, the girl didn't need a white knight to come and save her. She could handle herself.
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