RECOGNITION FOR MALE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE - SOME PROGRESS BUT STILL LIKE PUSHING BOULDERS UPHILL

A constant issue is often the way that the media forget that men can also be victims of domestic abuse.

Part of the problem is that they are constantly being fed by organisations like Women's Aid and Refuge who live off the mega-million-pound domestic abuse industry and do not want the money shared around to male victims. Also they are being fed only side of the story by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission as well as organisations like the Government's Equalities Office (which incidentally has a budget of £69 million reduced from a massive £83 million in 07/08!!).

But legally the Government has to ensure legislation applies equally to male and female victims and often it will make announcements that affect all victims but these are written up by the media as if they only apply to female victims. A recent article (The Media's Invisible Men) on the ManKind Initiative website (they have also update their stats package) shows how this occurred recently when the Home Secretary  and Minister for Women spoke about a New York style system of keeping tabs on perpetrators.

Much of the media then converted the story into one about wife beaters when the system applies to perpetrators from both genders and Theresa May never mentioned wife beaters once. The Guardian repeated the trick in this article. Still May is hardly blameless in forgetting about men on this issue.

There has been progress in some quarters though and some has been covered here on the site  but additionally.

Firstly, new Oxford West and Abingdon MP, Nicola Blackwood, covered the issue of male victims in her Maiden Speech in Parliament, though this is tempered by the fact that Baroness Scotland has maintained her position as Chairman of the All Party Group on Domestic Violence (with Caroline Flint alarmingly as Secretary) so male victims have absolutely no chance of getting any semblance of a hearing or recognition with those two running it.

Secondly, a few new groups have sprung up including in Derbyshire (good ITV feature on it) and in Scotland (which must be better than the Government funded Mens Advice Line who are running a Scottish helpline and are a sub charity of Respect - who do nothing for female perpetrators becuase they do not believe they exist). De Gwynedd Women's Aid also changed its name to show it supported men as well.

Other coverage not covered on this site before includes the plight of Kieron Bell (This Morning and Daily Mirror).

Some progress is being made but it still does feel like it is pushing a boulder uphill.

Posted by Skimmington

Comments

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Thanks for this. It has been a strength of the gender feminists that they have held office and funded their cohorts well in the past decade. Their weakness is that this has been done by dictat. All forms of workers and groups on the ground accept men get hurt too because they deal with them. Year on year the discriminatory mantras from the GEO and it's quangos has actually weakened the case with those doing the work. Still a long way to go but over tha past couple of years I have seen more and more people question the orthodox view in their work. Please keep rolling the bolder.

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