The trend to make female movie characters tough and abrasive has been proceeding for some time. We can all predict that the new partner in the police procedural, let’s say a petite black woman whose entrance surprises (and thus reveals the bigotry of) the white man she’ll be working with, will turn out to be …
The idea that domestic violence is overwhelmingly committed by men qualifies as a zombie narrative. Nothing but a head shot will kill it. Tim Patten is locked and loaded.
A little over 50 years ago Erin Pizzey founded Chiswick Women’s Aid to assist women who were victims of intimate partner violence. Erin started documenting their experiences and quickly realised that a high proportion of intimate partner violence was reciprocal in nature. This is something that is widely recognised among MRAs but generally still rejected …
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Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control are not gendered issues. Despite a huge body of scientific evidence showing that men are victimised at similar, or slightly higher rates, as women, male victims have been dismissed and ignored for decades. Taken from two large international surveys, here are the voices of men from the UK that have …
Relationships Australia purports to be a major supporter of individuals and families experiencing domestic violence. So I wondered: how can they help if you are a male experiencing domestic violence? For example, what services can they provide if you are a male experiencing physical abuse, psychological and emotional abuse, coercive control, and financial abuse within …
Australian men experiencing domestic violence often don’t know where to go Read More »
