Almost like the Prime Minister who uses “girly” as an insult and has cheated on around 20 different women
Same Jess Phillips that laughed at male suicide in the commons a while back?
I’d love to know what people who say this think we should be doing. Violence against women and girls is going to get worse because our societies are being divided across identity lines, but I’ve not heard anyone in the public eye say that or offer a serious solution yet. Just exclamations, vaguely blaming men and doubling down on identity issues. The Jess Phillips way.
I don’t get this, is violence against women worse than against men?
I know women are far more likely to be sexually assaulted but men are the victims of 4/5 murders, and are violently assaulted nearly twice as often as women. Shouldn’t we be trying to stop all sexual/violent assaults?
Jess is a national treasure not just for highlighting this.
To all the men about to whinge “but what about men”, you are part of the problem. We need to have a conversation about violence against women and you derailing it prevents that. Listen to our stories. Not everything needs to be about you.
Violence against women is a distinct problem. It requires dedicated, specific actions. Generalised approaches will not work and will not help.
Jess, if your party got into government, you could actually make laws and change things. Unfortunately, your stupid identity politics repel ordinary voters, making all of that less likely.
Well I’m sure she’s absolutely right about a lot of this. But sadly I’m not sure how exactly we go about changing it.
Its easy enough to say we need to go further, to change the culture, but on a practical level what does that really mean? What can individual people do to help with the crisis?
Pepper spray should be legal. Women need to be able to spray a predator in the face if he tries to assault them. Long term societal change like changing the perception of women in our society takes time and is very subtle. Misogyny is pretty engrained in our society.
I wonder what’s causing such a surge of violent behaviour towards women. Maybe something has changed this past decade.
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Almost like the Prime Minister who uses “girly” as an insult and has cheated on around 20 different women
Same Jess Phillips that laughed at male suicide in the commons a while back?
I’d love to know what people who say this think we should be doing. Violence against women and girls is going to get worse because our societies are being divided across identity lines, but I’ve not heard anyone in the public eye say that or offer a serious solution yet. Just exclamations, vaguely blaming men and doubling down on identity issues. The Jess Phillips way.
I don’t get this, is violence against women worse than against men?
I know women are far more likely to be sexually assaulted but men are the victims of 4/5 murders, and are violently assaulted nearly twice as often as women. Shouldn’t we be trying to stop all sexual/violent assaults?
Jess is a national treasure not just for highlighting this.
To all the men about to whinge “but what about men”, you are part of the problem. We need to have a conversation about violence against women and you derailing it prevents that. Listen to our stories. Not everything needs to be about you.
Violence against women is a distinct problem. It requires dedicated, specific actions. Generalised approaches will not work and will not help.
Jess, if your party got into government, you could actually make laws and change things. Unfortunately, your stupid identity politics repel ordinary voters, making all of that less likely.
Well I’m sure she’s absolutely right about a lot of this. But sadly I’m not sure how exactly we go about changing it.
Its easy enough to say we need to go further, to change the culture, but on a practical level what does that really mean? What can individual people do to help with the crisis?
Pepper spray should be legal. Women need to be able to spray a predator in the face if he tries to assault them. Long term societal change like changing the perception of women in our society takes time and is very subtle. Misogyny is pretty engrained in our society.
I wonder what’s causing such a surge of violent behaviour towards women. Maybe something has changed this past decade.