Blink and you might have missed it but our new Prime Minister said something deeply shocking this week.
“Women must be respected,” Malcolm Turnbull proclaimed, while announcing $100 million in funding to tackle violence against women. “Disrespecting women is unacceptable.”
I know, right…? How embarrassing.
We live in a country where the Prime Minister blatantly demonises men and wastes public money on policy gimmicks for the girls. A country where there is bipartisan support from the Opposition, who have also quenched their thirst on the feminist koolaid.
Or so says Miranda Devine and The Daily Telegraph.
In her column today, Devine slammed the Government’s family violence initiatives and laid blame for violence against women squarely at the feet of women themselves. It’s only ‘unsuitable women’ (AKA poor ones) who get abused by their partners, she argues. Unsuitable women who have kids with “a string of feckless men” because they want to get their grubby, broken hands on more welfare money.
Think that’s an exaggeration of Devine’s argument? I sincerely wish that were the case.
You can read her column in full, here.
Now, indignant cries of ‘not all men are violent!’ and ‘what about violence against men?’ are commonplace on the pages of our daily tabloid newspapers. Any feminist who has ever opened their mouth or put finger to keyboard on the issue of violence against women, does so in full knowledge that this sort of vitriol will come back at them.
Of course not all men are violent, feminists respond in exasperation. And of course all victims of violence deserve support, treatment and care, we calmly explain. But eliminating gender from our analysis of family violence would leave us with zero hope of ever actually addressing the problem. Because prevention requires us to understand why the perpetrators of family violence are almost always male and why so many women are at risk of becoming — or already are — victims.
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So Miranda! Where do I fit into the demographics? Married for 30 years in a non-violent marriage ... now divorced and recently introduced to the devastating effects of domestic violence in my new relationship. Three Diploma's, lived in affluent suburbs all of my life (according to Miranda's criteria) and have no children with this "Feckless Man" (I still have my youngest child living with me who has been exposed and affected).
DV exists throughout all demographics, not just lower socio-economic groups. I hurt just like any other woman, I feel confusion, shame and embarrassment. I feel physical and
emotional pain the same as any other woman, and my bruises turn the same
colours. Bruises heal, but the effects psychologically can at times be crippling.
Miranda certainly has opened up a contentious dialogue, based on ignorance and what appears to be statistics. It seems she lives in a world, that she believes can be boxed up, with a "generic/standardised" label on it. She smother's her rantings in facts from other countries, irrelevant data, and articulates her views as if she has had some hands on experience. I very much doubt it.
I saw her on the Today Show "Grill" yesterday, and I was appalled by her biased uneducated opinions.
Her writings in the Daily Telegraph of recent weeks, will have caused many women who are currently in threatening relationships, even more trauma and despair. She has no conscience.
Government funding needs to be allocated towards education so as to eradicate the culture of Domestic Violence and to support all victims, male or female.
Congratulations Miranda, Mother of five now married sons. I wish I could support you more. Little is ever said about the physical abuse of women to men, men rarely report this to their mates at the footy or cricket club, to the public at all ! And what about mental abuse to men women and children, this also is a huge and rarely discussed area.
Not all men should be put into the pot re D V and child abuse.
You will find there is far more caution re the Judge or high court allowing children to be with their fathers than the mother.
How can you prove the mother is mentally abusive or poisoning the children..why would you allow a mother to have her children if this is the case...