An earlier (balanced) editorial from the Telegraph India

"That the desperate desire to hang on to notions of muscle-flexing masculinity makes them so vulnerable.."

Once again, it is men's fault whether they are the victim or the alleged perpetrator.

-ax

Good call Ax,

I mean honestly are we this pathetic as to always try to sugarcoat misandry? Are we that far up the female gender's rear end. This is hilarious. Men will never be free. You know why? They LIKE being slaves to women.

This is hilarious. Men will never be free. You know why? They LIKE being slaves to women.

I'm not interested in slavery and I've been a free man for quite some time now.

"Free your mind, your ass will follow" (from Platoon). Never have truer words been spoken. Freeing ourselves from slavery does NOT mean freeing ourselves from women. Women are an important part of most men's lives, and nobody I know wants to see that change. If you've had bad experiences with one or more individual women, try to remember that we're all individuals, so it's wrong to judge anyone because of their membership in a group (whether it's a race, a gender, a nation, a religion, or whatever else).

The fact is that the majority of men are not aware that they are living in slavery so they don't attempt to free themselves. That's why activists like me are trying to raise the "consciousness" of men everywhere while we fight injustice in our laws, all at the same time we're trying to fight both misandry AND misogyny.

It sounds like a lot more is being read into my comment than is there. I am merely observing that the article seems to blame men for not coming forward, due to their masculine honor code or whatever. While that may play a part, it seems to me it is just as likely the case, that men do not report D.V. against them because they know they will not be believed, or even that they will be arrested themselves, since the assumption that the police are trained to work on is that the woman only hits in self-defense (which is of course a false assumption).

It is my opinion, that anyone who blames this phenomenon primarily on a man's inability to admit he has been harmed by a woman, is not so much ignorant as in a state of denial. In fact I'm sure the great majority of women would go along with that viewpoint (that the man is to blame), because they are in denial in the sense that any objective reality (such as the reporting man being arrested) which would seem to them to lay part of the responsibilty at women's feet, and would instead rather believe that it is simply an issue of the man's psychology.

--ax

..the violence against men will continue.

I guess I can't argue with that statement.
-ax

...men's best interests should come first in the men's movement.