Australia: Women given 'free pass' on domestic violence, says former Nationals senator

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2015-01-08 01:54

Story here. Excerpt:

'The former National party senator Bill O’Chee [link added] says women are being given a “free pass” by police on domestic violence and are just as capable as men of killing, “especially when children are involved”.

O’Chee, a columnist for Fairfax Media’s Brisbane Times, wrote that equal opportunity for women meant equal responsibility for their actions, especially criminal ones, but police were failing to prosecute them for acts of domestic violence.
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Women are just as capable of killing in domestic circumstances as men, especially when children are involved,” he said.

O’Chee said he had a solicitor friend who “ruefully” did not charge one woman with domestic violence when he was a police prosecutor.

“Upon reflection, he agreed there was an inherent bias in the way police treated female perpetrators of domestic violence. They usually get a free pass,” he wrote.'

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The real purpose of most DV campaigns is to demonize men and give women another way to control men. It's not to stop violence. It to give women the legal upper hand in most relationships: Make me unhappy and I'll accuse you of domestic violence. It doesn't serve that purpose if women aren't given a free pass on DV.

Giving either sex a free pass simply engenders more DV. Today the basic view is that's it's okay for women to hit men, but not for men to hit women. The guy might put up with it a couple times, but the third time he strikes back. So he gets put in jail. The real problem in this situation is the accepted belief that it's okay for women to hit men. (The Ray Rice episode comes to mind.) In truth, neither sex should be a punching bag for the other.

The DV movement has also made it very hard to advance joint custody for fathers. The feminists (who supposedly favor equality) typically argue against joint custody for fathers out of concerns for DV--which, as we all "know," only men commit. Legislators typically believe that only men commit DV, thanks to all these campaigns, so they become reluctant to vote for any type of presumed joint custody.

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Submitted by el cid on Thu, 2015-01-08 15:04

...really?
this, despite statistics that show that FEMALES initiate domestic violence 70% of the time??? and the legislators still......?
omg!!
...so embarassed to be female, these days, i am.

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Submitted by ErikaLancastor on Fri, 2015-01-09 01:39