Buzzfeed - Austerity to blame for increase in women killed

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www.buzzfeed.com/hannahalothman/domestic-violence-austerity-years-killed-women-girls

Why blame the government, before you blame the men that did the murdering?

Yes, the government should not have cut funding to DV charities or the police. But surely these are all services designed to mitigate for male violence. This article seems to completely ignore the fact that these women are being killed by men. Why is that?

I agree, blaming the government for men killing women is just lazy thinking.

Not austerity, misogyny - always misogyny. Having less money doesn't magically turn a decent man into a murderer.

It's almost as if the men doing the killing don't have freedom of their own thoughts and actions.

Yes because poverty forces men to use there fists

There are different types of causation though aren’t there?

Why do women get murdered by men - because our cultural structures cause that to happen

Why aren’t as many women being protected - cuts to vital dv services

I agree with the systemic underpinnings of this.

The root is abuse of power that is facilitated by the patriarchy that oppresses us all and victimises women and children.

The cuts to DV and other services would not have been permissible under a different system - one that was working to reduce VAWAG.

Have you actually read the article? Violence perpetrated by men is a known risk and interventions are put in place to rehabilitate perpetrators, educate young people about healthy relationships and support victims to be safer or to leave (amongst many other things), of course funding cuts affect these things! If you recognise a culture of misogyny, how is less funding going to result in cultural change? The police are over stretched so less resources for investigation, meaning less likelihood of meeting CPS thresholds for prosecution - again austerity. There is also the intrinsic issue of sentencers and sentencing guidelines that issue harsher outcomes for financial offences than if you batter a woman, but the only way to change that is completely overhaul the judiciary and judicial selection processes, that's not a cheap thing to do either. Essentially lots of people suffer from cuts, and as with most things in this world women bear the brunt of it, how are men going to be held to account with an underfunded system?

The cheapest thing of all would be if the men could just be kind