How do we address men’s violence against women as an epidemic?

They aren't learning the lessons at scale. And quickly enough.

There's another poor young woman in NI. Lost her life at the hands of someone with a prolific offending history as far as I could make out.

They need to take an epidemiological approach to the data, like a pp says. Law enforcement needs to be far more proactive. It's slow reactivity is costing lives.

Have you reported this? Have you encouraged their DHs to leave? Why do you believe the fact that people turn a blind eye is because they're women? People turn a blind eye to male violence all the time.

Regardless, I'm not sure what your comment has to do with the epidemic of male violence against women? It's a very odd response to make. Perhaps you should start your own thread to discuss female violence? It could be an interesting discussion.

It’s also so sad (but depressingly unsurprising) that the murdered woman had contacted the police about this man previously. Obviously I don’t know the facts but Avon and Somerset police have referred themselves to the Independent Office for Police Conduct “due to previous police contact with the victim prior to Sunday”. I would not be surprised at all if police failings contributed to this man going on to murder his ex when they had the opportunity to protect the woman from him.

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Ah, the passive aggressive sign-off of a flouncer!

Fuck me. Russell Brand has arrived on the thread with his thesaurus…

There have been some very intriguing studies by epidemiologists on violence and how it acts like an infectious disease. Someone exposed to violence is then likely to go on to be violent. Violence has a way of perpetuating and intensifying itself. It’s been studied at the household level, family level and even societal level where violence emerges as civil unrest, crime waves, and even bloody revolutions/terrorism.

Men tend to be exposed to more violence than women. Usually from other men.
Society also shuttles men into the jobs that require daily exposure to extreme violence- military, law enforcement, certain sports- which are positively linked with them being perpetrators of violence on their own families and friends.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/get-psyched/201705/how-violence-spreads-contagious-disease

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-31246-6_5

https://www.numberanalytics.com/blog/epidemiology-violence-chronic-disease-perspective

https://www.wlrn.org/npr-breaking-news/2026-03-30/can-war-be-treated-like-an-infectious-disease-this-expert-thinks-so

Time to ignore the tedious derailer
A pity it happened on this of all threads

If you read my post, I addressed this already, which is great that we're on the same page.

Women are not the only parents though, are they? 50% of parents are men. How about we look at their parenting as well.

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I'm absolutely not defending language that doesn't reflect the truth, I'm just wondering if they are being careful for the legalz.

You wouldn't want the men getting upset lest blame be rightly attributed in their direction

Don't be dramatic in effort to join a pile on. How can women demonstrate intellect and solidarity when they put words in each others mouths and try to infight on a forum, FGS.

I stated that there are contributing factors, by bad parenting from women, which result in male violence. That does not mean it is causative or excludes the responsibility of parenting by men.

Strategies address issues and the implementation of those strategies can only work if they encompass all factors.

I am sensing a distinct lack of ability for intellectual discourse, thus far.

Advocate for sisterhood and not victimhood and we might actually be heard.

yyy, so minimising. Not naming it.

I assumed you were familiar with the statistics and general context of the problem of male violence, particularly when it comes to killing loved ones or family. The newspaper report is being discussed in that context. And that is why any attempt to present women as being equally prone to inflicting violent acts upon others tends to wind people up.

Rules of the Patriarchy #1,000,000: searchez la femme

1. Women are responsible for what men do.

I'm waiting for your contribution to the intellectual discussion you claim you want to have
Looks like I'm not going to find it in your posts
You got called out, you can't handle it
As you say, move along if you just want to whinge about your MIL

I don’t know what the answer is but I’m also very concerned at what appears to be general apathy and acceptance towards this issue.

Even the reporting of male violence is minimising and skirts around the issue, see for example the headline of this article about the case you mention “Woman died after ex 'with explosive device forced entry to house'”. Surely it should be “Man kills woman by causing explosion after forcing entry into her house”. It may seem a minor point but it is important because naming the issue is recognising it but if you can’t recognise a problem then you can’t address it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21q55gz12o

Wth

Did you just actually blaming poor parenting by women for males committing femicide

@Ghostmartin Why don't you move along and not read my posts if you can't handle my contribution?

Exactly

2 women a week dying at the hands of their partner or former partner is not and cannot be "balanced" by anecdotes about a MiL

FGS read the room
The thread is about male violence
Start your own thread if you want "balance"