Video shows touching reactions of boys who are asked to slap a girl in the street

By Kemi Mobuse - Thursday, May 26, 2016



A heartwarming new video has proven once again that; older doesn't necessarily mean wiser. 

An Italian video journalist called Luca Lavarone conducted a social experiment with children on a busy street, to highlight the issue of violence by men against women.

In the three-minute clip, several boys aged between six and eleven years old were  introduced to a girl and asked to pay her a compliment, caress her, pull a funny face to make her laugh... and then they were all told to slap her. 

The participants react to the final request with shock and appear visibly upset, but their responses as to why they wouldn't  go through with the task is the real tearjerker.  



The video was produced by the Italian news company Fanpage.it with the aim of putting an end towards domestic violence. 





It starts off with the cameraman asking several different boys, who they claim are ordinary members of the public, their names and ages on a busy Italian street.  

The children answered with a number of ages, that ranges from six to eleven. 

The boys were then asked what they would like to do when they grow up and they answered with a variety of professions that includes a pizza maker, a footballer, a firefighter, a policeman and a baker.

Next, a pretty young girl with long blonde hair called Martina appears and is introduced to the boy who is being interviewed. 


The boys all look stunned and many of them giggle nervously as the cameraman asks: 

'What do you like about her?

Among the replies are: 'Her eyes,' 'her hair,' 'her shoes and her hands,' and 'everything - you're a pretty girl.'  

One love-struck boy even says: 'I'd like to be your boyfriend.'

The cameraman than asks the boys to 'caress her,'  and the boys giggle nervously before quickly stroking her arm, hair or cheek. 
When the cameraman asks the boys why they are refusing to slap the girl standing next to them, they come up with a range of answers that would warm even the coldest hearts 


Next up, they were asked to make a funny face at her and they pull out their ears, stick out their tongue or do something similar. 

Then finally, the cameraman tells them: 'And now... slap her!' 

Each boy he asks is  visibly shocked. Some frowned or look perplexed, while others seem like they're about to cry.

But not one obliged.  


The cameraman said to each boy again: 'Slap her, hard!' Come on!

Then slowly, each boy looks at the cameraman and says no.  

He asks: 'Why not?'

At this point, each boy responded with an answer worthy of any domestic violence poster. 

One says: 'Why? Cause she's a girl, I can't do it.' Another replies: 'Because you're not supposed to hit girls, I don't want to hurt her.'
The clip ends with one of the younger boys looking directly the the camera, saying: 'Why? Because I'm a man!'
One of the eldest boys told the interviewer: 'As the saying goes: 'Girls shouldn't be hit, not even with a flower.'

Another replied: 'I'm against violence.' 

The clip ends with one of the younger boys looking directly the the camera, saying: 'Why? Because I'm a man!'

A slogan then flashes up that reads: 'In the kids' world, women don't get hit.'

God Bless the parents that raised these boys...

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