Showing posts with label patriarchy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patriarchy. Show all posts

Monday, February 22, 2010

Won't Somebody PLEASE Think About The MEN?!

OK, I know I JUST posted, but then I was reading me some online news and found this "poor menz" article by Robert Smol on the CBC's website. Smol discusses men in abusive relationships, how they have less access to post-abuse/post-violence services than women, and how the general problem of abused men isn't given enough weight.

I'm not here to say that men who are in abusive households shouldn't have access to protection and counselling services that are available to abused women. Obviously, these services should be available to everyone. My frustration stems from a particular quote: "much still needs to be done and the biggest challenge, in my view, is what to do about men. Not men as perpetrators — there we seem to have a handle on things". We seem to have a fucking what on WHAT? We have a HANDLE on men as perpetrators of violence in the home? In what way is that?