Crime & Punishment

Did I offend your precious SJW feelings?

Do your reading and understand bell curve statistics. Don't hang your hat on outliers. The majority of cases of domestic violence are men. Women need these service's more than men. More women are killed through domestic violence than men. More women and children are seriously damaged by men. Look to the bell curves and not winey men's groups.

Maybe we can cool it down a bit before this goes right off.

I don't think that WA Government website is trying to do the wrong thing, they could probably just advertise some of the services for all victims better.

In Australia, 74% of domestic violence against men is performed by other men (usually an older male), not by women, so I think they are taking the approach that if you can assist people at risk of aggression, then you can help all victims of domestic violence, both men and women.

WA has the 2nd highest raw number of domestic aggression in the country, but the 4th highest population by State, putting it as the highest rate of domestic violence in the home for the whole country.

Overwhelmingly, women face the highest risk at 3-4 times the rate of males in WA and almost exclusively, violence against women is by men.

So all domestic violence, whether against men or women is bad and I think it is fair to say that men report domestic violence even less than women do.

I think all WA are doing there is trying to reach out to males at risk of being violent because male victims are unlikely to reach out unless the violence is public or reported by someone else; and are also working on the stats that show that where males are affected by domestic violence in the home, there are often women also affected (even if emotionally and not physically) because the violence is from the one person.

It's a bit tough to hate on the government just because they have taken an unusual approach in the hope of preventing violence rather than simply responding to it when it's reported.

Is that official statistics? Many men don't report violence against them. In fact, women perpetrate domestic violence against their partners at a higher rate than men. It's worth it to point out that lesbian couples experience DV at a higher incidence than heterosexual ones. And do you know why? It's not because women are more violent than men. It's because of people like Nitshe here that flood the public information realm, telling people that you can get away with physical abuse if you're a woman. But not if you're a man. In fact, hitting a woman even in self-defence is frowned upon. Your wife hits you and your call the cops? You're going to jail for the night to cool off. Et cetera, et cetera.



I don't live in Australia, dumbass.

Who said you did?

Separate your issue = Custody for single fathers (which I support and live), with what was discussed about domestic violence.

Of course that it could be improved. That's some Minority Report **** right there. "You feel like you might perform a criminal offense by beating up someone? Call yourself in now! What's that? Your wife hit you? We're not interested."

There's definitely nowhere near enough funding for services to support men, especially the genuine (most) fathers that want to continue in the life of their children after a separation.

False accusations and denial of access are just as serious a case od domestic violance (even after a separation) as any sort of physical violence and there's always the assumption that the mother is right and the father wrong.

We have such a long way to go.


There's other ways to interpret it, but I don't think continuing to argue about it in the forum serves much purpose.

We should get back to CODE.

All's well that ends well, had you not entered the discussion I would never have met you to say thanks.