Yum & Yuk

Recently I've watched a few episodes of the new drama Mercy on Hulu. It's a standard drama about nurses working at a hospital - not groundbreaking but enjoyable, and interesting because it also deals with PTSD of doctors and nurses who have been in Iraq. However, a recent episode left me seriously upset, angry, and disappointed. In th episode two men were admitted for injuries they sustained from fighting each other - it turned out they were a couple. They were placed in the same room for treatment, no one ONCE mentioned the words "domestic violence," their fight was played as a "aren't gay men so dramatic," and the treating nurse was determined to get them to stay together. To top off the insult and injury, at the end of the episode the token gay nurse storms in and gives a speech about how "we" worked so hard to get the right to marry, they can't just give the relationship up. What!? I don't think you would ever see a show where a man and woman beat each other up, it's treated as a joke, and the whole episode was about getting them to stay together. And if you did, their would be an outcry. As there should be for this show. Big FAIL, Mercy.

EDIT: Wow, just to make the disparity even more glaring, a later episode features a woman who is a DV victim and the exact same nurse that disregarded the men in an abusive situation devotes herself to getting a female DV victim to leave her abusive spouse. Wow, glad to see that domestic violence is taken seriously....when its a straight white woman.