SAVE Deplores Portrayal of Domestic Violence as Glamorous
WASHINGTON, DC / Sept. 8, 2011 -- Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE), along with many other advocacy groups and media outlets, has condemned fashion photographs recently taken of television star Heather Morris (Brittany from “Glee”) engaged in mock domestic violence with a male model. But advocates other than SAVE have ignored the male victim in the pictures, and by focusing only on the depicted violence against Ms. Morris, they perpetuate damaging stereotypes and hide the facts about domestic violence from Americans. A black-eyed Morris, dressed as Barbie, stares seductively