Women excluded from DV pledge

TLE writes "In Austin, the annual pledge against domestic violence took place with great fanfare outside the Capitol steps, and you guessed it - only MEN were called upon to make the pledge. The local shelter (which claims to accept male victims as well as female) called SafePlace can be reached here for anyone wishing to ask them why women are not called upon to promise not to commit violence against men and children. And why not also have women promise not to provoke violent responses from men by throwing and breaking things, or lying about sexual assault? I suspect they accept male DV victims (in theory) to get around legal funding problems, while never admitting that women also commit DV."

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