And what do you propose is the solution? A return to the “family values” of the 1950s before that dreadful feminism had made “primary target” of men and “legislated political correctness”??

The whole [unbiased] story is much more about early attachment insecurity, abandonment, neglect, humiliation amongst other factors which have a flow on effect to; not just men, but all persons who experience them.

The changes in society over the last hundred years have created what can only be seen as a ‘culture shock’. Rapidly increasing in potency & bias, the primary target [a creation of radical feminism] is men. A cursary look at ‘language’ serves to corroborate both the bias and change/s.

To put the present situation through the sieve of ‘reason’, the remnants would be evidence of a substantial shift away from our Judeo-Christian origins, to a more liberal humanism based on ‘feeling’ rather than ‘fact’.

Socio-Psychological ramifications abound, with feminine males, masculine females, gender denial, trans-genderism, along with ‘legislated political correctness’ exacerbating things further.

No wonder we see increasing signs of the resultant trauma.

The battle lines have been created and now are being rigidly defined, coincidental to the voices of the combatants being either silenced or heard with deafening predictability.

In this context, where gender roles, marriage and the harmony that attends their acceptance are frustrated, a ‘step back’ from the fray [which includes family violence] permits the creators of the new hypothesis to fabricate ’cause that fits’ the dominant agenda, whilst overlooking the possible ‘actual cause’ & better responses.

Until we treat the ’cause’, not the symptoms, we shall continue our trip ‘around the mountain’……

Thank you for your prayers, Marty.

Finally an appropriate comment to a devastating article on women living and dying in constant fear. Thank you.
And thanks Mike for writing about it. Let’s all be a solution to a huge and terrible problem in our society. I’m sorry but most men have absolutely no idea about the fear these women are living through every day and previous comments I find way off the mark, and quite heartless. Especially to someone living in this situation.

It’s not really about me, but no, preventing violent crime has not been my area of advocacy. However, I don’t have a problem with anything on your list of actions.

I just see an inconsistency in the attention currently being given to one part of the problem – when women are victims – and the full breadth of the statistics. Perhaps it is because that part received relatively little attention for a long time, or because some people like to simplify the genders into tribal groupings with uniform behaviours.

I will agree that intimate partner violence and rape, which disproportionately affects women, deserves *separate* attention, in as much as it may have roots in some specific behaviours or behavioural expectations that are not transferable to general violence affecting everyone.

I’d also add that your advice to men about the patriarchy, talking about emotions, etc. should also be given to women. Women, at least as much as men, police what is ‘acceptable’ behaviour for boys and men according to that repressive model.

You can read a blog post outlining 12 heinous, unprovoked acts of violence against women and find yourself nodding in agreement with what exactly??

Absolutely!

I take it, then, that you’ve been active in advocating against violence against men? Or did you just decide to raise that issue when you saw my blog post about violence against women?