The latest story to gain headlines in the UK is a woman being abducted and murdered as she was walking home in the evening. Now this murder has gained a lot of publicity and thankfully this type of murder is very rare, women are not killed routinely walking home, at night or any other time in a day.
This has of course pushed the issue of violence against women to the forefront again and there are all sorts of suggestions being thrown about as to what we can do but to me there is still no direct, plain calling out that the issue is men.
We can try all these policies, well lit streets, panic buttons and so on and they are all good ideas (and of course will help keep everyone safe) but what do we do about the huge level of violence against women by men?
In all my acquaintances I (apparently) don’t know a single man who thinks violence against women is OK in any way shape or form, but I’m older and not really plugged into if you like mainstream society so where are these men that think it is OK, how do we expose them and then treat and rehabilitate them?
There has to be something wrong with these men, no one can claim that they did not know violence against women is wrong (self defence excluded), so why isn’t that message getting through? Where does the idea that women can be assaulted come from?
One of the implications I often hear is that this is a problem of the “lower” classes, yet looking at the statistics that is a load of crap, a middle class professional male is as likely to assault a woman as one from the working class.
(There are some sub-cultures that do still promote the idea that violence is an appropriate way to deal with women but that remains within that culture and cannot explain the statistics in the wider culture and society.)
And can we please keep this thread to being about male violence against women, yes men are also more likely to be assaulted by a male, yes males are very likely to experience violence against them, but please start a new thread if you want to discuss male on male violence.
Any ideas?
This has of course pushed the issue of violence against women to the forefront again and there are all sorts of suggestions being thrown about as to what we can do but to me there is still no direct, plain calling out that the issue is men.
We can try all these policies, well lit streets, panic buttons and so on and they are all good ideas (and of course will help keep everyone safe) but what do we do about the huge level of violence against women by men?
In all my acquaintances I (apparently) don’t know a single man who thinks violence against women is OK in any way shape or form, but I’m older and not really plugged into if you like mainstream society so where are these men that think it is OK, how do we expose them and then treat and rehabilitate them?
There has to be something wrong with these men, no one can claim that they did not know violence against women is wrong (self defence excluded), so why isn’t that message getting through? Where does the idea that women can be assaulted come from?
One of the implications I often hear is that this is a problem of the “lower” classes, yet looking at the statistics that is a load of crap, a middle class professional male is as likely to assault a woman as one from the working class.
(There are some sub-cultures that do still promote the idea that violence is an appropriate way to deal with women but that remains within that culture and cannot explain the statistics in the wider culture and society.)
And can we please keep this thread to being about male violence against women, yes men are also more likely to be assaulted by a male, yes males are very likely to experience violence against them, but please start a new thread if you want to discuss male on male violence.
Any ideas?
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