To suggest a male curfew one night a week

The op and anyone who agrees with her. How would people react if someone put the same post up about race instead of sex. Would that be acceptable

but we’re not talking about race. We’re talking about VAWG and tactics to help reduce it. I still would like to see just one quote that suggests anyone on this thread ‘hates all men’ or even ‘blames all men.’

A curfew for men doesn’t erase the patriarchy or the thirst for male violence. In fact it would only likely increase it.

Totally agree. It would make them more angry.

Christ on a bike OP, you do realise there're women who walk about at night and aren't in fear of their lives every time they walk down the street?

So did the woman who attacked and hospitalised me... and the men who pulled her off me

@listsandbudgets sorry that happened to you but not sure what it has to do with a conversation around VAWG 🫤

The op and anyone who agrees with her. How would people react if someone put the same post up about race instead of sex. Would that be acceptable.

I care more about women and girls actual physical safety than the hurt feelings of all of the multitude of, apparently, amazing men you know. Also, how do you know what your DD thinks. Have you actually asked her….maybe, with your attitude she thinks there’s only one correct answer.

@WolabiMe So you reckon the other 85% of them should suffer???

Thanks @TheCrenchinglyMcQuaffenBrothers, I’m sorry you had to go through that. You obviously understand my fears.

And not only trapped at home with their abuser, but trapped with I imagine a far angrier abuser than normal. He will be well and truly pissed off that he's been prevented from leaving the house and guess who will be getting the brunt of that anger..... his poor female partner at home.

Exactly. It would increase male violence.

A curfew for men doesn’t erase the patriarchy or the thirst for male violence. In fact it would only likely increase it.

Another excellent point

Aren't women more likely to be harmed or murdered by their intimate partner statistically? So what happens when those women are in effect trapped with their abuser? It's such a stupid idea. I don't know what the answer is to end male violence. There probably is no solution but this certainly ain't it.

All the man haters on here do you have sons/grandsons/nephews. Not all men are violent criminals and not all women are innocent gentle beings

@Differentstarts please quote me one quote from this thread which looks to be from someone who hates all men?

Oh god yes, BargingOnBy, do seek therapy won’t you? It’s definitely your fault for not being more mentally robust than the, quite logical, fear of violence from unknown men, that’s the problem. FFS.

I have always walked my dogs, for miles, along the quiet and remote north Kent Coast and the adjoining farmland. More than once I’ve seen a lone man in the distance and my hackles have gone up, and I’ve tried to get back to my car as soon as humanly possible. Once a man literally ‘followed’ me whilst I was on a farm track and he was on the parallel sea wall - which are about 100 hundred metres apart maybe. We were the only two humans visible for miles. I just got a weird feeling about him. Instead of watching the cost line for birds as is usual for lone people there he was facing me and if I went left for a while, so did he. I stopped and went right, he stopped and went right. I was shit scared, no phone signal, alone. I basically left the farm track and entered the field and tried to run though it as fast as possible back to the car park, I couldn’t see what he was doing at the time but hoped he was following the sea wall which would give me a bit more time than him.

I haven’t walked that route alone since.

An acquaintance of mine, Claire Knights, was murdered in the same area a short while ago by a lone, unknown, man whilst she was walking her dog. I wonder if you’ve even heard of her? No, I won’t be seeking therapy for any fear I have, you absolute flan.

So did the woman who attacked and hospitalised me... and the men who pulled her off me

I’m not a man. I used it. Because that’s what it is. If someone had posted something even half as misogynistic as this thread is misandrist it would have been taken down by now

Not it wouldn't because the reverse already happens in other countries - see Afghanistan and other countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran to a lesser extent. But women are kept indoors to stop them being attacked by men who can't control themselves.

The suggestion is to keep men indoors to stop them attacking women (and other men, come to that, because they can't control themselves.

No reason to take a thread down because it's an unworkable idea. The reverse seems to be eminently workable, though. Funny, that.

I disagree with the OP too.

I also disagreed with the OP, or did you miss that bit?

No-one throwing about the misandrist title has yet been able to explain why they think this discussion is that?

This is about returning freedom to women for one night not punishing men and certainly no-one anywhere has said ‘all men are evil’ or anything remotely like that

YES! We know that. We also know that 98% of sexual and violent crime is committed by men and we cannot tell, just by looking, who the good men are and who the sexual violent predators are.

This is an incredible stretch 🥴

So no answer then. Well off with you then, to go do all of those useful things we should be doing instead of waffling about on MN!

So if we disagree with the OP, we're men?

Good grief.

All the man haters on here do you have sons/grandsons/nephews. Not all men are violent criminals and not all women are innocent gentle beings