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To be really annoyed with the debate today on Loose Women?

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ScouseBird8364 · 17/09/2014 18:15

Firstly, let me say, I do NOT watch this shite usually, I flicked it on as background noise this afternoon but was caught by the debate they were having, namely Domestic Abuse.

The whole debate was centred around the basis of the woman being the victim and the man, the perpetrator. They had a guest speaker on, I think she was affiliated with the refuge system in some way, very anti-men, and brought up these statistics about 95% of perpetrators being male etc.

This makes me so angry. The only reason the statistic is so unbalanced is because men don't come forward as often as women probably do.

I am aware of womens refuge's, but are there any for men?

I think far too much emphasis is placed on the male in these cases and is much too overlooked Angry

Just my opinion, rant over.

TheOnlyOliviaMumsnet · 17/09/2014 19:43

Good evening all
Just to post a reminder of our talk guidelines
Thanks so much

TheOnlyOliviaMumsnet · 17/09/2014 22:15

@TomLondon

This is quite a hostile and unsupportive crowd. The "Mums" in mumsnet indicates your hostility to other parents and how you have chosen not to be inclusive.

Hi there

For the record, we simply thought Mumsnet was a less clumsy, more memorable name than Parentsnet ever could be. Realising that the name might provoke exactly the same reaction as you're having, we then very deliberately chose the strapline "By parents, for parents" in order to signal our wish not to exclude fathers - or indeed grandfathers or even fathers-to-be.

We do take gender equality seriously - and we would never refuse membership to anyone on gender grounds. Men are just as welcome on Mumsnet as women, as we do have many male "regulars", ranging from stay-at-home dads to fathers-to-be to male nannies.

But we shall shortly be suspending this thread as it's not really what Mumsnet is about.
Thanks
MNHQ

IonaMumsnet · 18/09/2014 10:52

Morning all!

We've reopened this thread now we've had a chance to take a proper look at it. It seems there has been some confusion about the suspension message. We certainly didn't suspend it because the OP didn't find it supportive!
Apologies if that wasn't clear.

We've banned TomLondon now, because he was reported many times, and if someone has signed up to MN purely to promote an MRA or anti-woman agenda, that counts as 'deliberately inflammatory posting' in our book.

We can see that lots of you think this is a useful thread and contains interesting debate so we will leave it for now. Do please continue to report anything you think we ought to see, however.

Thanks!

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