Dominic Raab: We must end feminist bigotry

omg...........

men - pooooor men.

very important current thread:

OP LordPanofthePeaks writes:
"Posters may or may not be aware of the significant rise in the experience of DV at the times of football tournaments, and most specifically the World Cup.

Anyone googling this issue will read some startling statistics, and would appreciate that as the tournament draws near this is a heighten time of risk to women. In the borough where I work the highest ever reporting time of DV was when England played Paraguay last time ( and won).

I don't wish to killjoy a fabulous event, but the darker side of it should not be ignored.

Nationally, DV incidents reported 'spike' at these times, and we can speculate why.
I do have a professional ( and personal) interest in this, and am keen to promote an awareness of this danger. I do have responsibilities in a public organisation for Domestic Violence, as well as Children and Families, and have noticed a lack of promotion of this danger which can be so easily predicted.

So I am inviting a discussion and pointers for how people, both perptrators and potential victims can do what they can to avoid this nasty experience. MN do not ahve a current DV campaign, though the strength of opinion from posters may change this.

Anyone?"

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/978768-Domestic-Violence-and-the-World-Cup

One of my friends has the misfortune to live in Philip Davies's constituency. Poor woman.

I can’t really believe this needs saying, to be honest, but I think it’s so discriminatory and sexist to say that we should only be focusing on violence against women. If this was the other way round, there would be an absolute outcry from people in this house – and rightly so. I don’t take the view that violence against women and girls is somehow worse than violence against men and boys.

He's actually this thick, you know. It doesn't occur to him to consider who is perpetrating this violence against women and girls and men and boys.

THe Guardian article above also quotes Jess Philips,

(extract)
"Jess Phillips, the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, said: “For some people, they wake up on Christmas Day and they will try not to say anything wrong. They will try not to put a foot wrong. They will make sure everything is perfect. They will have risk-assessed every single step that they take throughout the day because just this one day their children deserve not to have the monster that lives in their home erupt in their faces.

“Just this one day, their children deserve to have the peaceful day that all of our children have taken for granted and so all of the stresses we’ll feel, for those people, will be terror and control over everything they say and do in order to keep things safe.”

Phillips denied Davies the opportunity to intervene in her comments, but he later made a 78-minute speech saying he had a fundamental objection to the idea that MPs only needed to deal with violence against women." (continues)

She was interviewed by Channel 4 this week,
"They both threaten me... They both try and gaslight you."

Jess Phillips MP explains how the far-left and the far-right both abuse her in similar ways, in the latest Ways to Change the World podcast.

twitter.com/channel4news/status/1015232544135172097

Yes. He hates women, the poor and people with disabilities.

I'm so so glad he's the new Brexit sec.

Reads like the Faily Mail on crack cocaine.

There seem echoes with the views of Philip Davies.

Guardian article December 2016 www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/16/philip-davies-anti-feminist-tory-mp-filibuster-women-violence-bill

"Conservative MP tries to derail bill protecting women against violence
Philip Davies, an anti-feminist, accused by Labour and Lib Dems of attempting to filibuster bill by talking for too long

(extract)
"He continued: “I can’t really believe this needs saying, to be honest, but I think it’s so discriminatory and sexist to say that we should only be focusing on violence against women. If this was the other way round, there would be an absolute outcry from people in this house – and rightly so. I don’t take the view that violence against women and girls is somehow worse than violence against men and boys.

“As far as I’m concerned, all violence is unacceptable and all violence against the person should be punished by law. Both men and women are victims and both are perpetrators of these crimes. I believe in true equality and want people to be treated equally when they are a victim of crime and when they’re a perpetrator of crime.” (continues)

Don't remind me.

A man telling feminists that we're feminising wrong?

How refreshing.

''Young British couples are tired of the equality bandwagon, dreamt up in the 1960s, pitting men and women against each other. ''

Well this is a new and interesting iteration on the endless war on women.