Charity march to end violence against women (From Watford Observer)

"Charity march in Watford High Street for violence against women campaign"

I would prefer they marched against violence against women, not for it.

I hate the idea of violence against women, it is despicable.

WO changed the headline and wording PDQ once they realised their howler. I don't mind if they now delete my comments pointing it out.

A laudable campaign, but domestic violence is perpetrated by both men and women against partners of either sex. back in the 00s, I tried to deliver a load of material that we had printed at zero cost to them, which was part of some funding used to train print students back when that was available as a college course. Rather than just printing test plates and exercises, we'd try to incorporate charity work so the finished articles weren't going straight into the bin. Anyway, as a man they wouldn't even allow me up the stairs into the women's centre; we had no female print technicians at that time, though we did get one the next year and she was one of the best we'd ever seen! So the pamphlets ended up with only one box out of eight delivered after someone came down and met me at the door and decided they didn't want to carry the rest up themselves even though they'd said they'd take them when they were initially approached about it.
Discrimination swings both ways. I'm sure your volunteers are right that some women in the refuge might find the presence of a man disturbing, but then to treat a whole gender as if they were pariahs, well, that's not going to help anyone's rehabilitation is it? I certainly hope they have changed over the last 10 years and become more inclusive. There are many men who would campaign against domestic violence alongside the women.

Trt, you are right that men can be subject to domestic violence too however I personally can totally understand how women who have suffered at the hands of a man would be wary of all men. Especially if they are living in a refuge which I believe indicates that their suffering only ended relatively recently.

I'm not putting it on a par but its along the same lines of people being wary of all dogs because they were once bitten many years before

garston tony wrote:
Trt, you are right that men can be subject to domestic violence too however I personally can totally understand how women who have suffered at the hands of a man would be wary of all men. Especially if they are living in a refuge which I believe indicates that their suffering only ended relatively recently.

I'm not putting it on a par but its along the same lines of people being wary of all dogs because they were once bitten many years before

I can understand in a refuge, where someone is living which is supposed to be a space that they are comfortable in and control but this was their office on the High Street. OK, might be staffed by someone with issues, or the library and interview rooms being used, but I'm sure you can see what I'm driving at.

TRT, yes and no but I dont think its anything to get your knickers in a twist about!