Violence
Endeavouring to reduce violence against women is a worthy pursuit but so is endeavouring to reduce violence against men. There is no need to be exclusive in attempting to reduce violence. If violence breeds violence then the optimum way to reduce violence is to work against all violence.
Men are approximately twice as likely to be a victim of violence than women. This is true across all ages groups and cultures. Some may suggest that the majority of violence on men is perpetrated by other men. This is true but it is a specious response. A discussion on the victims of violence should focus on the victims, how to help them and how to hopefully prevent repetition.
Men are just as deserving of protection from violence as women are. This is legally and morally true although it is the case that many police forces around the world do not take violence against men perpetrated by women as seriously as other forms of violence.
We should all work together to reduce violence against all humans.
Feminist Endorsement of Violence Against Men
It is often the case that prominent feminists endorse violence. When doing some some seek plausible deniability by using vague terminology while others are more direct.
Charlotte Proudman
Below Charlotte Proudman praises the Gulabi Gang who beat men who are alleged to have committed domestic violence.
Mary Daly
"If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males." [1]
Mona Eltahawy
Mona Eltahawy has endorse violence against men on many occasions.
During an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Eltahawy stated:
Knowing that this is very disturbing, I ask people to imagine — now I'm using this word imagine, and I'm underlining it three times — a scenario in which we kill a certain number of men every week. How many men must we kill until patriarchy sits across the table from us and says, "OK, stop. What must we do, so that you can stop this culling?" Now I'm saying imagine. I'm not saying go out there and kill 100 men today. I'm saying, just imagine this very, very disturbing scenario. [2] [3]