When male violence isn't named

[CanineEnigma]

I'm sure many of us have already seen the threads and reports in the news about the four teenaged boys (plus their pal who photographed the incident) assaulting a disabled woman. The boys have been arrested since a bit of a social media witch hunt for them took place, but in everything I've read about it all I'm hearing is a bit of an attitude of "boys will be boys".

They committed a horrible assault against a disabled woman - a disability based hate crime, if that's what the police investigation decides on - but why is nothing being said about the fact that yet again, it's male violence against a particularly vulnerable female?

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I hasten to add - all I'm hearing in the news reports, rather than the MN discussion, which has largely been focused on the disability hate crime aspect of the assault.

I haven't read that story (but will now) but it was much the same when DeeAnn Fitzpatrick described the office bullying that had happened to her. There was a photo of her parcel taped to a chair and the response from her managers was boys will be boys.

Too often male violence is written off as horseplay and "bantz". This has to stop.