What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...

*Domestic *violence is what you said. It could well** be (minor*) form of assault but domestic violence is usually in the home or between partners / children, and usually involves repeated events and a situation that the victim finds hard to escape from.

You are a fuckwad troll who is trying to diminish the seriousness of domestic violence, hence the need for articles like Barbara Ellen's.

Which particular bits of that article do you disagree with and why? Maybe C and P a sentence and pick it apart for me.

I am 99.99% sure you can't and I am even more sure that if you try my low opinion of you will go down.

• some of the reasons why it would / should be regarded as minor are laid out in the article
  
  

** probably is. spitting, threatening, all sorts can be regarded as assault AFAIK. The issue is whether it is DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, not whether she did something violent that she should not have done, that she could be prosecuted for if the police didn't have many many more important things to deal with, such as domestic violence,

You're a really weird character. Bizarre. I said as a matter of law, not through your magical prism of warped online ranting. Thankfully the Police aren't bound by your traditional definition of domestic violence and are much better positioned to serve the needs of victims than if they existed in your closeted little world.

I trust that you know that the new domestic offences, such as a s38 breach in Scotland, were legislated for to prosecute exactly this type of behaviour, and the prosecution treat domestic factors as an aggravation. That is, as a matter of law, the state in the UK sees this as domestic violence. Indeed one of the reasons the police are so busy is that they are dealing with offences such as this.

Anyway, whether Solange (or, back on earth, a hypothetical UK equivalent) should be prosecuted or not is another matter, but those are the facts.