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.

Andrea Dworkin

"I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig."

"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice."

Charlotte Proudman

Below Charlotte Proudman praises the Gulabi Gang who beat men who are alleged to have committed domestic violence.

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.

Sally Miller Gearhart

"The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race." The Future – If There Is One – Is Female

Sharon Stone

"The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men."

External Links

• Effacing of male victims
• Boys in poor urban areas suffering more than girls from violence, abuse and neglect, international research says