Men who abuse their positions of authority to abuse women and girls

And doctors and nurses too

Hestia
What about male primary teachers?
Should they be banned?

Hestia that is a really good idea and I agree police should be double crewed male/ female but there would need to be a huge increase in female officers. That is so unlikely because as employers police forces routinely discriminate against women.

Great post and topic Olenna

Wherever there’s vulnerable women there are predatory males - hence why men should never be allowed anywhere near them

Most people don’t even recognise there is a subhuman sect of predatory males - that’s the elephant in the room and the gap in education and research. The most dangerous ones are those who are in plain sight in politics, NFPs, the judiciary, medicine, and corporates etc

And yes we should screen for them but that would blow the cover of all those “model” men who like to remain covert - as all men who use violence of whatever kind to exploit and subjugate women.

If we saw them as dots on a map we would all be shocked at their prolific numbers.

I have long been of the opinion that male guards have no place in women's prisons.
Perhaps they can work there if chaperoned by a female guard. But they should never be alone with prisoners. The risk of them abusing their authority is just too high.

Same with policemen. They can interact with women in public, but as soon as there's any risk of power abuse, there needs to be a policewoman present.

Policemen should also screened for such tendencies, as them being alone with a woman could always still happen accidentally even with safety precautions, but I am not sure how one could do that, the rapist policemen seem to fly under the radar just fine, you aren't going to catch them with a multiple choice test.

I suspect a zero tolerance policy with regard to sexual harrassment in the workplace would already weed out the worst ones ... it shows just how much man dominate society that such behaviours are tolerated in policemen, people the general public is supposed to trust.

Add to that list charity workers, both in the uk and overseas. Many charities ‘reviewing’ their safeguarding policies after finding male staff abusing their positions to abuse vulnerable women and girls. Often years after whistle blowers alerted senior staff.

Anna Salter is very clear about this; predatory men get into positions of power because it enables them to access victims.

This happens too often to even have a website or blog about. Priests, teachers, managers, landlords, police officers, prison officers, immigration officials (remember the sex for visas scandal?) - I remember a story last year about housing officers in the US threatening to take Section 8 housing off vulnerable women unless they complied sexually - trailers in many cases.
Bullying and exploitation of the weaker by the more powerful is so common it's frightening, I often wonder if men are drawn to positions of authority for the wrong reasons or react once they realise their power (probably a mixture of both, I should imagine).
It's hard to screen for that kind of tendency in hiring and just emphasises the need for robust safeguarding controls that are difficult to circumvent.