Shame? Yes.

[StraightOuttaSalem]

In the 80s I was in my early thirties. I gravitated to King's Cross Women's Centre.
I joined and worked hard for Women Against Rape, the English Collective of Prostitutes (close to my heart) and was one of the women who occupied a church.
There was also Wages for Housework which I thought was silly and managed to say not much about.
Then in1982 Erin Pizzey published 'Prone to Violence' which posited that some women (and some men) are prone to violence - it wasn't that they enjoyed being hit - it was that electrical moment before the blow landed that was chemically addictive.
At the time I knew two women who openly adored their violent partners - it was 'He hit me, and it felt like a kiss.' (This is an actual song by The Crystals).
Everyone, all my friends, picketed Erin Pizzey. I managed to have an upset stomach.
I am older now and won't be silent.

The fight never ends. It seems to get bigger.

MRAs everywhere do all they can to deflect people away from the truth - that there's a significant minority of men who use violence of many forms to get what they want - despite what they say.

Men of Character have become dirty words.

In 2009 at the Peace Conference in Canada, the Dalai Lama said that 'The world will be saved by the Western Woman' and it was a call to action to women throughout the west ...