This resource is called "EmpowerHER." While nobody would deny that men are sometimes victimized, there needs to be spaces to speak about male violence to women - which is still the greatest form of human rights violation in the world - without hearing "what about the men?" You make the point that services service women because advocates say they are the most prevalent victims. They are - it is not discrimination to say so, and it is not their fault that services for men are sorely lacking when they are up to their eyeballs servicing the women and children men have harmed.. Men need to work to generate services for battered men without damning battered women's services, and without pretending that the problem of battered men goes anywhere near the scope of the problem of battered women.
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This resource is called "EmpowerHER." While nobody would deny that men are sometimes victimized, there needs to be spaces to speak about male violence to women - which is still the greatest form of human rights violation in the world - without hearing "what about the men?" You make the point that services service women because advocates say they are the most prevalent victims. They are - it is not discrimination to say so, and it is not their fault that services for men are sorely lacking when they are up to their eyeballs servicing the women and children men have harmed.. Men need to work to generate services for battered men without damning battered women's services, and without pretending that the problem of battered men goes anywhere near the scope of the problem of battered women.
December 15, 2010 - 4:46amThis Comment
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