As a survivor of Domestic violence, the real numbers are so much higher. Most abuse isn’t reported in the first place. It’s horrific what happens behind closed doors. I was barely allowed to leave the house and when I returned I had to hand over my phone to prove I wasn’t talking to someone else.
There’s so many different forms of abuse, the biggest issue is making victims believe they will be listened to in the first place.
Entirely off-topic:
Stock photos for sensitive subjects like this always make me chuckle a little, must have been a bizarre experience to get the modeling job of “domestically abusive husband”.
I wouldn’t be so tempted to put that on my CV…!
Your crisis will make a fine addition to my collection.
Of course you’ll get “why didn’t you just leave him” oh because he threatened my life you know the usual. It’s a vicious cycle. I’ve been in two. It never leaves you. There is help out there though. ❤️
Interesting they have these public awareness campaigns when the last post on this sub was about a man who broke into his ex’s house and assaulted her (she was in a wheelchair) and he avoided jail time. Perhaps it’s not the public who need awareness raised but the judiciary.
The culture of shame and secrecy, fear of the neighbours knowing stopped family members acknowledging abuse was happening and victims like today were slow to contact authorities. Sadly domestic violence isn’t new and it was good that during the pandemic there was an emphasis on such abuse
How many crises are we up to now?
I grew up during the 2000’s, in the estate where I lived you were an outlier if you *didn’t* beat your girlfriend/wife. It was that prevalent. I remember as a small child seeing a fella arguing with his girlfriend, he was holding a bag of hoola-hoops and eating them, she was standing up against a fence. He put the bag of hoola-hoops right in the middle of her face with one hand and with the other blasted her in the nose with a bunch. It looked like a mini explosion of crisps and blood from her nose. This was a common sight and I, in my childhood innocence assumed she had bought him the wrong bag of crisps.
To say violence against women is at ‘crisis levels’ is to imply there is an acceptable level of violence against women
We should just preemptively lock up all men.
Fuck it, smother all infant males.
All violence is up; against children, pets, and even men themselves. Being locked up during COVID-19 nuked society’s collective brain as we binged on media and became dissociated. We all need therapy
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Well when [this](https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/violent-dublin-thug-convicted-of-series-of-brutal-assaults-on-ex-partner-walks-free/140490218.html) is the outcome when brave women come forward is it any fucking surprise there’s a crisis.
As a survivor of Domestic violence, the real numbers are so much higher. Most abuse isn’t reported in the first place. It’s horrific what happens behind closed doors. I was barely allowed to leave the house and when I returned I had to hand over my phone to prove I wasn’t talking to someone else.
There’s so many different forms of abuse, the biggest issue is making victims believe they will be listened to in the first place.
Entirely off-topic:
Stock photos for sensitive subjects like this always make me chuckle a little, must have been a bizarre experience to get the modeling job of “domestically abusive husband”.
I wouldn’t be so tempted to put that on my CV…!
Your crisis will make a fine addition to my collection.
Of course you’ll get “why didn’t you just leave him” oh because he threatened my life you know the usual. It’s a vicious cycle. I’ve been in two. It never leaves you. There is help out there though. ❤️
Interesting they have these public awareness campaigns when the last post on this sub was about a man who broke into his ex’s house and assaulted her (she was in a wheelchair) and he avoided jail time. Perhaps it’s not the public who need awareness raised but the judiciary.
The culture of shame and secrecy, fear of the neighbours knowing stopped family members acknowledging abuse was happening and victims like today were slow to contact authorities. Sadly domestic violence isn’t new and it was good that during the pandemic there was an emphasis on such abuse
How many crises are we up to now?
I grew up during the 2000’s, in the estate where I lived you were an outlier if you *didn’t* beat your girlfriend/wife. It was that prevalent. I remember as a small child seeing a fella arguing with his girlfriend, he was holding a bag of hoola-hoops and eating them, she was standing up against a fence. He put the bag of hoola-hoops right in the middle of her face with one hand and with the other blasted her in the nose with a bunch. It looked like a mini explosion of crisps and blood from her nose. This was a common sight and I, in my childhood innocence assumed she had bought him the wrong bag of crisps.
To say violence against women is at ‘crisis levels’ is to imply there is an acceptable level of violence against women
We should just preemptively lock up all men.
Fuck it, smother all infant males.
All violence is up; against children, pets, and even men themselves. Being locked up during COVID-19 nuked society’s collective brain as we binged on media and became dissociated. We all need therapy
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