Blaming Men Doesn’t Stop Domestic Violence

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2013-02-24 23:44

Article here. Excerpt:

'Lately our communities have been bombarded with a United Nations (U.N.) claim that “One In Three Women On The Planet Will Be Raped Or Beaten In Her Lifetime.” The U.N. fails to cite any sources for this claim and the latest UN report, Prevention of violence against women and girls. The report of the Secretary-GeneralE/CN.6/2013/4 on violence against women provided by a UN media officer when asked for such does not make the “one in three” claim.

By extrapolation of this “lifetime” figure, Eve Ensler, founder of the Vagina Monologues, assumes that, worldwide, one billion women have been raped or beaten. Consequently, this year’s V-Day theme is "One Billion Rising."
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To state that 1 billion women - one in three worldwide – will be beaten or raped in their lifetime (presumably by a man) is statistically quite incorrect. Why then make such an outlandish claim, if not to smear the character of men and boys as inherently violent and abusive?'

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"Why then make such an outlandish claim, if not to smear the character of men and boys as inherently violent and abusive?'"

Yep, it's just one more proof of the gender feminists' institutionalization of Witch-Hunting Males.

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Submitted by MR on Mon, 2013-02-25 05:21

What should individual men do on the ground to resist this kind of sexual terrorism?

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Submitted by cwondermagic1 on Mon, 2013-02-25 14:36

I'll tell you: men should NOT be "individual" men about this, in the sense that they should be rather banding together out in public on these matters to resist this kind of, as you call it, sexual terrorism. If you are particularly venturesome, you can even do a one-man protest, or get a few understanding friends to come along with you. Often major protest movements start with just one or a few lone dissenters in public. The good news is the men's and father's rights movements is past the point of having just a few lone dissenters, even in public, yet our public protests are still shamefully few and far between and too small when they do happen to get any attention. This is at a time when our public protest and counter-protest is becoming increasingly necessary with, as one of many examples, the unfounded male shame-spreading of the likes of the mayor of Dallas and the organizer behind that BS stop women abuse rally that's going to be held there in March.

But in the absence of that, by all means keep resisting "individually" by all the usual routes (calling/mailing MPs/congress, mailing other relevant organizations and parties, writing letters to papers and making posts on blogs, etc).

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Submitted by Sheldon on Tue, 2013-02-26 22:55