'We can stop domestic violence'

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2009-09-29 00:04

Article here. Excerpt:

'Men: 99 percent of gender violence and domestic abuse incidents are perpetrated by men. Therefore, this is a man's issue, not an issue where women put themselves into harm's way. Men need to change their attitude toward women so that violence and abuse is not ever seen as an alternative action.

Clearly, the vast majority of men are not perpetrators of violence but we are part of a culture that accepts violence as inevitable and that some men abuse women. In violence prevention the focus must be on men because it is men that teach other men and boys how to be men in ways that do not involve abusing and degrading women.'

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Women are the physical victims in one sense, yet in the other, they are innocent bystanders, or 'ghosts'.
-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Tue, 2009-09-29 05:36

"99 percent of gender violence and domestic abuse incidents are perpetrated by men."

Oh my 'effing God. How many men will be killed, have the crap beaten out of them, and/or rendered homeless by such bullshit?

When will the rhetoric end, and the influence of the real research begin?

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Down on your knees, And thank heaven, fasting,
For a good man's love.

Shakespeare, As You Like It III, 5

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Submitted by Belgorod on Tue, 2009-09-29 05:50

There's a comment section. Tell them to Google "Martin[?] Fiebert." Gotta go to work. Later.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Tue, 2009-09-29 13:19