Violence against women and children in this country is in a state of national emergency, and yet it receives scant attention. I applaud the efforts of state governments to combat the effects of ‘coward punches’ on our young men, but I question why the perilous state of women’s safety is so routinely ignored and downplayed. Street violence has claimed the lives of young men, but at approximately 1/7th the rate of that of domestic homicides.

http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/take-action/its-not-enough-to-ask-abuse-victims-to-leave-20140422-371yq.html

http://www.thecitizen.org.au/features/what-about-men-lies-statistics-and-peddling-myths-about-violence-against-women

You'll like this article.

She recounts some of her research that showed that when men talked about women’s violence against men, some cited abuse as not having a hot meal on the table, not having the children bathed before bed, or women spending money on gambling or shopping. At the more severe end of the spectrum, they nominated verbal and emotional violence as abuse. Then, a tiny minority documented physical abuse, and an even smaller minority named sexual abuse.

“Women were talking about being run over, being drugged and raped at knifepoint, having their children dangled over high rise balconies till they did as they were told and of course you get verbal and emotional violence,” says McInnes. “When we were talking about physical violence against men, one of the worst examples was that she banged his head with the cupboard door – which isn’t good – but the sheer level of fear, harm and terror that women talked about was simply not present in what the men’s data showed.”

- See more at: http://www.thecitizen.org.au/features/what-about-men-lies-statistics-and-peddling-myths-about-violence-against-women#sthash.ZT7AOPa9.dpuf

Edited by MUNRUBENMUZ: 1/12/2014 10:55:23 AM

Manrub really seems to hate men :lol:

More projection maybe.

Not at all. I'm just not ideologically blinded like you.

The first step towards solving a problem is recognising there's a problem.

If you think it's all tickety boo out there it's you that are deluded not me.

"I'm not ideologically blinded, so here's a bunch of stats from feminist resources that you've already debunked with your actual studies"

Turn it up mate.

More recent homicide stats.

http://www.aic.gov.au/media_library/publications/mr/21/mr21.pdf

Sometimes I wonder what it takes to lead men to think so little of women that they fall over themselves backwards to infantalise women at every step and paint them as victims in all circumstances, even in the face of statistics that show women are equal partners in intimate partner violence and leading the way when it comes to the abuse of children (explained away by the amazing revelation that women are around children more often, so that makes the abuse more understandable!)

People really need to wake up from the third wave kool-aid and start treating women like equal human beings.

*le black fedora*

Sorry to disrupt the hugbox with statistics and respectful disagreement, KA.

INB4 this thread gets locked too.

Football is apolitical... Unless you disagree with gender ideologues.

(also inb4 ban)



Edited by Notorganic: 3/12/2014 08:29:20 PM

Your statistics are woefully misogynistic and deliberately selective or else pitifully naive - just one example, mothers "17 times more likely to neglect their children" will largely be because the father is absent and the mother has been left literally holding the baby. Or putting the baby down and being charged for that...

The straight white man's lot in this world is a very privileged one. Any attempt to pretend otherwise is laughable, misogynistic and appalling. Take it elsewhere. I don't want this to forum to be seen as any kind of safe haven for MRA saddoes.

You are the gender equality equivalent of climate change deniers. I'm not going to give you oxygen.

So...Locked.


Edited by Kevin Airs: 3/12/2014 09:03:29 PM

Statistics can't be political, they are statistics. Calling them misogynistic is your own projection.

I'm sorry that you don't think all people in society should have equal rights.

I unlocked the thread to leave this statement immortalised for eternity. It says everything anyone needs to know about you these days, it seems...

Edited by Kevin Airs: 3/12/2014 09:09:30 PM