And the Westfield thing played a part, but they've just taken that as "part of a trend", of "gender-based violence", because there's been 27 or so women killed by men (supposedly) since the start of the year...
Mostly DV incidents. But because of all the media coverage, it's all turned into a sort of "gender war", with rallies and vigils and "kill all men" signs and shit.
And the Westfield thing played a part, but they've just taken that as "part of a trend", of "gender-based violence", because there's been 27 or so women killed by men (supposedly) since the start of the year...
Maybe I don't understand the full context but isn't this a country of hundreds of millions of people?
Wow, I had no idea Australia was that small. Even the Philippines has over 100M people.
Crunching the numbers, 27 women murdered by men / 123 days this year is "0.2 women" murdered per day or 1 female victim every 5 days.
For comparison, the US male-on-female DV murder rate was supposedly 4 women/day in 2019. Australia is roughly 8% of America's population, so the equivalent would be "0.32 women" / day or about 1 female victim every 3 days. But that's just the murder rate of male-on-female DV, not the overall male-on-female murder rate, which would be much higher. How impactful are these stats? They're not pleasant to think about, but I feel comfortable in saying there is no atrocious systemic culture of wifebeating in the US.
So again, I could be missing something, but this sounds like a classic case of the "one victim is too many" mentality that ensures TERFs will never, ever stop trying to exterminate men because the mere existence of bad male actors means men are evil.
But yes, it is what we in media studies classes liked to call a classic “moral panic”…
Which is partly why I refused to be “guilt-tripped” for not attending any of the many, many rallies on this issue in the past two weeks.
I’ve seen, and heard, some pretty horrific shit in my time (mostly in India), but I also know that none of this shit, none of this “media attention”, is actually going to help. And they only pretend to care because it’s “current issue”.
You should see the difference in the way they’ve treated the Aboriginal perps (one of whom is a footballer) and the white guys involved, especially the working class ones…
It’s astoundingly mask-off. And the trouble is that normies just eat it up.
Even my parents seem to now believe that an unemployed working class white man (two of the perps) deserves a higher punishment for the same crime, compared to an Abo…
Yes, yes and yes.
And the Westfield thing played a part, but they've just taken that as "part of a trend", of "gender-based violence", because there's been 27 or so women killed by men (supposedly) since the start of the year...
Mostly DV incidents. But because of all the media coverage, it's all turned into a sort of "gender war", with rallies and vigils and "kill all men" signs and shit.
Yeah, "fun". Real fun.
Maybe I don't understand the full context but isn't this a country of hundreds of millions of people?
only 25 million (for now) as we actually have higher immigration that the UK I believe based on %.
It's roughly 1 a week iirc.
Wow, I had no idea Australia was that small. Even the Philippines has over 100M people.
Crunching the numbers, 27 women murdered by men / 123 days this year is "0.2 women" murdered per day or 1 female victim every 5 days.
For comparison, the US male-on-female DV murder rate was supposedly 4 women/day in 2019. Australia is roughly 8% of America's population, so the equivalent would be "0.32 women" / day or about 1 female victim every 3 days. But that's just the murder rate of male-on-female DV, not the overall male-on-female murder rate, which would be much higher. How impactful are these stats? They're not pleasant to think about, but I feel comfortable in saying there is no atrocious systemic culture of wifebeating in the US.
So again, I could be missing something, but this sounds like a classic case of the "one victim is too many" mentality that ensures TERFs will never, ever stop trying to exterminate men because the mere existence of bad male actors means men are evil.
This is very autistic but I love it, ha.
But yes, it is what we in media studies classes liked to call a classic “moral panic”…
Which is partly why I refused to be “guilt-tripped” for not attending any of the many, many rallies on this issue in the past two weeks.
I’ve seen, and heard, some pretty horrific shit in my time (mostly in India), but I also know that none of this shit, none of this “media attention”, is actually going to help. And they only pretend to care because it’s “current issue”.
You should see the difference in the way they’ve treated the Aboriginal perps (one of whom is a footballer) and the white guys involved, especially the working class ones…
It’s astoundingly mask-off. And the trouble is that normies just eat it up.
Even my parents seem to now believe that an unemployed working class white man (two of the perps) deserves a higher punishment for the same crime, compared to an Abo…
It’s wild.
“The tyranny of low expectations” indeed…
That's correct.
"1 a week" is the cry, but for context that's roughly on par with the number of lottery winners.