VAWG as a public health emergency

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I heard violence against women and girls referred to as a public health emergency.

Of course it is.

It should be treated as such, same way as any other public health emergency.
I mean... the financial cost alone without the personal cost. The mind boggles.

Wondering what other people think? X

So in your opinion, domestic abuse is out in the open and family, friends and colleagues all know what's going on?

Yes of course, misogyny leads to abuse and misogyny should be challenged. Structural inequality leads to women being trapped in abusive relationships and victim blaming attitudes help enforce it.

In my opinion many people accept controlling behaviour and ‘alpha male’ shit, the ownership of women, various other underlying attitudes that eventually lead to toxic behaviour.

I know a lot of men who are well thought of, whose underlying attitudes mean I worry for their wives.

So no, domestic abuse isn’t out and proud. But the underlying attitudes are. They just aren’t recognised as the bottom rungs of the ladder.

Attitudes behaviour it's everything. Making it a public health emergency may finally focus minds.

I never said inequality has nothing to do with violence .

If you read the quote I quoted I was talking about Inequality at work, not within the NHS