Life in New York is stressful, y'all. Here's what happened: Real girlfriend of New York, Kelly Bensimon, got in a fight with her boyfriend, Nicholas Stefanov, that ended with her punching him in the face. She must've put her weight behind it because she broke the skin under his eye. Anyway, Stefanov went to the police, and Bensimon was arrested for misdemeanor assault.
Obviously, we couldn't care less about the
Real Housewives of New York, but we are intrigued by the questions this incident raises about domestic violence. Is it weird that strangest part of this story for us is that Nicholas Stefanov went to the police? Not that we think he shouldn't have necessarily, we just find it surprising since there's such an obvious double standard for men and women in abusive relationships. If Stefanov had punched Bensimon, for example, we feel like there would be more of an uproar....
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