Today I learned that in English:
words starting with "gl-" often relate to light: gleam, glint, glance, glare, glaze, glimpse, glitter, gloss, glower, glisten, glaze, glitz, glazed.
words starting with "sn-" often relate to nose: sniff, sneeze, snuff, snore, snort, snot.
I have said before:
A man is god over his woman, and gods do not answer to appeals from transgressors. They turn deaf to pleas from offenders, reject sacrifices, until the full wrath is met.
But what is worth noting is:
silence and violence are how a man traditionally communicates his anger. What decides which one he chooses to use is the risk attached to the other. So, when he is communicating his anger toward a woman, he chooses silence because there is a greater risk in using his other inherent response - violence.
And when he is angry at a man physically more powerful than he is, he chooses, still, silence because there is a greater risk if he resorts to violence.
Silence, or silence treatment then, is restraint. It is anger measured against consequence, expression filtered through risk. And more often than not, what you are witnessing is not indifference, but controlled power choosing not to become destruction.