Women are only as safe as their male partner allows them to be

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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/08/women-safe-male-partner-allows-head-girls-school-body-says-emma/

A statement related to Emma Pattison from the chief executive of the Girls Day School Trust (a group of independent girls schools).

Such a blinkered perspective.
Easy to judge from a position of such simplicity.

Hard to make your kids homeless and live in abject poverty after just one slap. Easy to say it.

Maybe listen to women with experience of the situation.

Hard to make your kids homeless and live in abject poverty after just one slap. Easy to say it
This^
If she could easily leave and be financially comfortable with without him, he'd not be abusive, they start, -the predatory instincts kick in- when they are in a position of power. It's not until she is trapped that he starts getting the urge to exploit the situation, he wants to increase the feeling of power and domination, he cant get that feeling if she can easily up and leave and have a comfortable life without him.

Plus the reality is that in leaving, most abusers still get unsupervised contact with their children, even when there is compelling evidence (medical, police reports) of abuse. So in escaping you are often leaving your children more exposed to abuse. It's an awful dilemma.

Some of us don't feel safe unless we do live with a man. The amount of stalking I've received has gone down since my partner is visibly living at my house.

that's the reason I keep mine, scares off all the others, I dont actually live with him but I make sure people know he exists, if you're going to retain a man it needs to be a big muscular hands like shovels one, he has to look capable but never actually lose his temper or get into fights etc

Surely a big dog (German Shepherd, Rottweiler, or similar) would have the same effect, and be more pleasant to live with (better house-trained, make less mess, not talk, etc.)?

Women, it's dangerous to be too successful. Think of the poor men!

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1-I do not live with my partner, this is a key factor in the success of our relationship
2-I cannot abide dogs, a dog that's powerful enough to defend me would feel like too much of a threat, I'm very confident than my partner will never attack me I cannot say the same about a dog.
A dog is far too much hard work for no benefit at all, I hate the fecking stinking festering rancid things and all of the stupid besotted owners, another benefit of my partner is that he's very good with dogs and when I'm with him I'm not scared of them.

In my view men can be a useful and beneficial part of your life provided that you keep them on a tight leash, it's important to never let them have the upper hand, you must never ever surrender yourself to a man.
If you are in a situation where you're trapped and vulnerable this will tend to trigger the predatory instincts and they become very problematic.
Obviously I'm saying all of this in hindsight, there was no way for me to see or appreciate these things when I was younger.