Feminism is concerned about domestic violence.?

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Feminism is concerned about domestic violence.?

Domestic violence is both a national and a worldwide crisis. According to a 2000 UNICEF study, 20-50% of the female population of the world will become the victims of domestic violence.1

Although men are more likely to be victims of violent crime overall, a recent study by the U.S. Department of Justice reports that "intimate partner violence is primarily a crime against women."2

Of those victimized by an intimate partner, 85% are women and 15% are men.2 In other words, women are 5 to 8 times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate partner.3

The vast majority of domestic assaults are committed by men. Even when men are victimized, 10% are assaulted by another man. In contrast, only 2% of women who are victimized are assaulted by another woman.

What is your opinion on these facts? What can be done to alleviate this scourge?

Answer 1

Voilence, whether domestic or otherwise is to be condemned and stopped !

Answer 2

Violence is a violence,committed by man or woman does not matter.This an offence,serious offence.

Exemplary punishment.

Answer 3

My opinion is stop going with the guy who's real confident and angry who you think will "protect you" when he's really just going to kick your teeth in. Girls are picking the wrong men. I don't htink it's only their fault but in many of the cases you can tell from early on that they're going to be an abusive man. We can't stop the abuse except by telling women don't go with these men, they're going to beat you, go with the man that's nerdier but will give you a stable future and not beat you.

Answer 4

My opinion is that No One has the right to abuse in any way another, because no other person belongs to another either through birth, marriage or family.

What should be done? You have the greatest tool at your your disposal, the Internet!  You can find the agencies that you need to get involved and then have all of us emailing or writing to them. Then you have the other tool at your disposal YOU, get out and DO Something.

Answer 5

Alleviate which scourge?

Domestic violence or feminism?

Answer 6

Feminism is indeed quite concerned with domestic violence.  We need adequate funding for domestic abuse shelters, including ones geared towards men.  Men may not be the majority of the victims, but they deserve help, too, although they probably don't need the same kind of help.  We need a social safety net that allows a woman who has been effectively isolated and who may not have been able to work outside the home and who has to abandon most of her belongings and money to flee with her kids.  There is some evidence that some women stay in abusive relationships because they feel that it's better for them and their kids than starving on the streets.  Can't say as I blame them.  We also need to combat this notion that it's none of our business, that it's just something between the couple.  It's all of our business, and it's hurtful that we, as a society, are so myopic about the whole thing.

We also need to encourage a culture where women don't base their worth on men, and where men don't base their worth on domination.  I'm not saying that all of us are like that.  It's just that those themes are common enough in our culture that domestic violence is mostly men acting towards women.   See, this is where The Patriarchy Hurts Men, Too.  Men's roles around here are, in a lot of ways, even more limited than women's.  A lot of male culture also seems to be intent on defining itself as "not-woman" and "not-g*y", which is a variation on "not-woman".  This disdain for women is hurtful both for guys who have traits or interests that we define as "feminine" (which is to say, almost every guy- people are complex beasties, yo) and for women who have to deal with a culture that constantly puts us down.

Answer 7

Yes we all should "Join in the Fight against Violence"!