Abuse against men...

[MummaBear03]

Do you think it's an issue that society needs to do more to stop, or do you think that just because the majority of physical abuse is perpetrated BY men that we don't need to address the issue when it's TOWARDS men?

I'm talking any abuse, physical, emotional, financial, everything.

[elleandsam]

Absolutely. By men towards other men and by women towards men. Abuse is wrong towards anyone. Man, woman or child, no one deserves to be abused.

[Mrs Nietzsche]

Abuse towards anyone is wrong. Unfortunately, men's support services take up a disproportionate amount of resources allocating to support funding in comparison to funding for women (who are by far the larger group requiring support)

[Benji]

Men are far more likely to experience male violence! Men are far more likely to be murdered or assaulted by other men.

It needs to be addressed, of course it does!

Violence against EVERYONE needs to stop - men, women, children and animals.

[MsMummy]

I think any abuse is an important issue.

But with the finite pool of government and charity money, I think more needs to be spent on the neediest group, which is women.

[sweetseven]

This might be an old wives tale as I heard it as a rumour with no validation. The university provided a courtesy bus for women to public transport (bus stops, train stations, etc) after night lectures. A young man attempted to make use of the service and was denied, given the reasoning that if he got off at the same stop as a woman, she might not feel safe. Thus, he walked to the train station, and was attacked and beaten enroute (by a group of intoxicated men).

Thereafter the university courtesy bus was available to anyone who felt unsafe. There was no further discrimination by gender.

I do not know whether this is true or not. I personally didn't feel unsafe walking through the city at night to my trainstation, but availed myself of the bus because I would rather not walk if I didn't have to. I can see the reasoning for sugesting that one passenger may feel threatened by another. But unless the other actually does anything threatening, then he (or she) shouldn't be discriminated against, and the one feeling vulnerable should just stay on the bus with the driver for the next circuit.

[MummaBear03]

I want my daughter growing up in a world where she feels safe, where she feels as though nobody is allowed to harm her, and if they do they will face harsh punishment.

I would want my son to grow up in a world that's the same for him as it is for the females of the world.

I can't believe so many feminists think it's ok that men are abused. That's not feminism, feminism is about making women equal to men, not better.

[Benji]

I want my daughter growing up in a world where she feels safe, where she feels as though nobody is allowed to harm her, and if they do they will face harsh punishment.

I would want my son to grow up in a world that's the same for him as it is for the females of the world.

I can't believe so many feminists think it's ok that men are abused. That's not feminism, feminism is about making women equal to men, not better.

I would have thought the opposite. I'm a feminist and have been since I was about 15 years old. I'm against ANY violence at all.

I think you'll note that most of the posters in the "have you hit your partner" type threads who thought it was 'funny' or okay were in fact not feminists or quite anti-feminist

The known feminists of the hub were mostly very anti-violence against men

[MummaBear03]

I would have thought the opposite. I'm a feminist and have been since I was about 15 years old. I'm against ANY violence at all.

I think you'll note that most of the posters in the "have you hit your partner" type threads who thought it was 'funny' or okay were in fact not feminists or quite anti-feminist

The known feminists of the hub were mostly very anti-violence against men

I'm talking about the one that caused that spin-off, the one about what should a man do if a woman hit him. It surprised me.

[Benji]

I'm talking about the one that caused that spin-off, the one about what should a man do if a woman hit him. It surprised me.

I'll go have another look