MEDIA STILL FORGETTING MEN CAN BE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE

While the BBC and others tend to be a bit more balanced in ensuring the way they portray domestic abuse as being about male victims as well as female victims, some continue to only keep one eye open even though the statistics are clear that one in three victims are male. It is a theme raised before. This weekend we have seen more cleaq eampoles:

The Sunday Telegraph's Patrick Hennessy broke the story under this headline: Men who bully or abuse their partners in a "controlling" fashion could face criminal charges under a shake-up of domestic violence laws being planned by ministers.

The Mail on Sunday's Jack Doyle followed up with: Bullying husbands could face court for 'emotional abuse' as domestic violence laws are tightened


Yet both articles go on to say later on that men can be victims too, but the impression is clearly left (especially because of the headline) that again only men perpetrate domestic violence and only women are victims. It is this biased and awful reporting that continues to give succour to those who believe that domestic abuse is a gendered crime and do all they can to stop male victims from being recognised and getting the help they need.

Shame on you Telegraph and Mail.

Posted by Skimmington

Comments

[Dave]

I can't decide whether it's the individual article reporters who continue with this moronic onslaught upon our male population, or whether it's the overseeing newspaper editor who has the final say and are too damned chicken to offend the female population by presenting the truth. Either way, I don't buy the papers that do this anymore (which is all of them!) - so I speak with my money! I just simply boycott man-hating institutions these days. Nice and simple. I don't shop at boots anymore either – read on… I wish this site would cover more articles that surround the besmirching of men on TV including adverts, dramas, soaps, news etc. etc. It is this constant drip-feed of man-bashing that has most influence over our young population and helps indoctrinate them into thinking men are useless, good-for-nothing idiots (or, on the other hand, are objectified beyond belief by using half naked, muscular men where a female body would be taboo in a situation of the same ilk). I think we should recognise this as a fundamental problem in society. The latest boots ad refers to a situation whereby a Father has forgotten to buy a present and the daughters/Mother (whoever it was I can’t quite remember because I was flabbergasted) said some thing like “ Oh no! Yet another useless Father situation”. Now, personally, I think that this type of misandry is seen and heard my literally millions of young, easily influenced people and has the potential to carve the way to their future opinions of men. It is the same on TV, too, where domestic violence is concerned. You regularly see guys being slapped around by girls/women for little reason, with no consequence for the female. Whereas the other way around it’s a completely different story whereby any guy that lands a finger on a female, the story always sees the guy suffer severe consequences. THIS is why our population (via TV) is convinced that guys don’t matter. THIS is why men have had their emotions stripped from them and hence they don’t complain. So, yes, Featherstone’s speeches make me wanna puke and, yes, I think it’s a disgrace that domestic violence against men gets ignored. But I honestly believe that we need to tackle what has most influence on our next generation – and that’s TV. It stinks!

[Jon]

With the BBC you should report every instance to them as an example of where they have failed to be balanced.

A recent example was an article discussing increased child abuse perpetrated by criminal gangs. The headlines page summarised the link by saying "Girls are still at risk from criminal gangs", however the article itself made no mention of gender. The BBC had assumed the role of the victim as being female, and helpfully subbed it into the summary for us all.

I complained and got a slightly nonplussed apology. They still don't really get it. But DO make a fuss, it causes hassle for them to reply and justify and maybe - just maybe - in future they will think twice.

"Thank you for your email.

I have checked the story I wrote and, as you rightly say, girls are not
singled out.
I think someone has wrongly used the word "girls" in their summary to
link to this story.
Apologies for this.

Yours,"

[Groan]

I agree Jon . Statutary agencies are simply unaware that there can an alternative view.

The legal proposals are very dangerous. The law will be framed as gender neutral to comply with HR and Equality Act. However in the context of the Gov. sponsored stategy on Violence to Women and Girls there can be no doubt the application by gov. bodies will be very anti men. By using much broader notions of abuse effectively making it very difficult to defend. Coupled with the link of legal aid only for cases with suspected abuse there will be incentives to making accusations.

[Bob]

I fully agree with you Dave, the TV is the key. Ever since the "Women into Journalism" campaign the media has been infested with feminist propaganda and there is no more powerful medium than the TV.

[Dave]

Take loose women - what a pile of double-standard crap! What they get away with saying on there is completely beyond me. They are truly sexist and utterly shameful women, especially considering that they KNOW their slanted views are being aired to millions! And the male suckers who go on there are just as bad - usually because they are pandering to the female audience for attention, and hoping in desperation that all the girlies will just lurve them! And all the girls DO love the guys who are "man-enough" to be on the girlies side. So all the young guys watching this crap think that this is how you're meant to act all your life when amongst girlies - you know...suck up to them all of the time, which is why most young men are so freakin' stupid and don't support each other! Instead, they'd rather suck up to the girlies at their own expense just in case they get a little nookie, which they never do, of course! So the feminist agenda of belittling men on TV and the general onslaught from the wider society to do the same thing (using all sorts of mass media) has a causal link with the other "more important" aspects of male discrimination, like health, education, work, social etc. which comes later when the already indoctrinated youngsters become big, grown up boys and girls and enter the world of gender politics. So, let's start tackling the fundamentals by looking at WHY girls think they're better than boys and WHY boys don't emotionally protect each other like girls do. I bet you all the money you've got that it starts with the TV, because men are treated like absolute losers on TV and this is what they're all going to become if we don't start channelling our complaints to put an end to this nonsense! I watched TV tonight for 3 hours and I counted no less than 20 examples of double standards whereby a reverse gender situation would simply not be permitted. But all the guys in the country appear to be happy with this double standard. Go figure!