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Why don't men care..?

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AWholeLottaNosy · 10/12/2014 23:24

Why do men care so much about football ( and other sports), Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, computer games etc but not give a fuck about violence against women? ( which is real and life destroying) Why do they want to be heroes in a virtual life but not the real one? I know this may be a bit controversial but it genuinely puzzles me.,,

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IrianofWay · 11/12/2014 11:59

It is possible to care about many thing. And I am not sure about men being 'heroes' in rl TBH. How would that work?

MyEmpireOfDirt · 11/12/2014 11:54

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meandjulio · 11/12/2014 01:25

I think men do care about violence against women - all the men I know do, anyway. What do you mean by being heroes? I don't require men to save me, I just don't want them to be violent towards me.

It's possible that they don't want to have much of a conversation about it - they may not feel they have much to say once they've said 'I'm against violence towards women' 'Oh, me too'. Though I think talking to men about violence and their attitudes towards it is interesting. I never would have thought that my dh was a 'hit them back' type but that's what he suddenly said when ds was being bullied. We had a loooong conversation.

I care a lot about some daft comic novels written by a woman who died in 1951, but I also care about housing policy and child abuse, I don't regard them as incompatible.

itsbetterthanabox · 11/12/2014 01:03

Because people care about fun stuff and care less about serious things.
Pop music is more popular than politics. This is true for women too.

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