Yes, the mysandrists have hijacked the feminist movement and their policy and advocacy is nothing but tunnel vision. I believe they've forgotten men are human beings who have every right to feel safe and loved, as women do.
Learn the DV cycle - everyone - and recognise what behaviours of your own may actually be violent behaviours.
Women are as capable as men are in terms of violence in a relationship - you just may not realise that your own behaviours are abusive - physical violence gets more acknowledgement and appears to have a greater focus and by and large men are statistically larger beings than women - so often when pushed to the point of breaking by a woman's preferred methods of violence they resort to physical violence, that's no excuse for taking the choice to be physically violent at all, but it isn't an excuse either to ignore the dynamics of the whole relationship that precipitated the violence.
Emotional, psychological, financial violence is equally unacceptable.http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=16394
MY OTHER PET HATE - are the number of DV services who simply refuse to support men - they'll support the sons of the women - but by excluding men from accessing their services they are sending a horrific message to the sons of their female clients. I HATE THIS PASSIONATELY. No-one deserves to be made feel that they are bad simply because of their gender - and that's what many many DV services do to the young boys who are as traumatised by their experiences of family violence as the mother and any female siblings. It's just WRONG WRONG WRONG ...
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