I can’t think of too many “male privileges”.

I can remember earning quite a lot of money in my life, and the vast majority of that has gone to women (with rarely any thanks being given from them).

I can remember receiving quite a lot of insults and ridicule from women, and the media is also full of negative comments about men.

It now seems par for the course.

Earn money and give it to women, and then be insulted and ridiculed and portrayed as a woman basher.

Drugs and alcohol,alcohol and drugs, drugs and alcohol, alcohol and drugs Zzz

What we men must do is challenge authors who so obviously abuse public forums as a cry for help.

Here is yet another person who trots out every piece of rhetoric and every cliché and every statistic and study that we have heard a thousand times over as if it is some Eureka type discovery destined to solve the problem of domestic violence once and for all. It is like he has just discovered that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west and we should all marvel at his discovery!

What possible contribution to the problem does anything he has to say give us? If we have heard all this before and he has no answers then the only conclusion we can draw is that he is trying to make some personal appeal for help in his own life.

Perhaps he is not talking about a problem that all men should take responsibility for but rather he is talking about a problem that he as a man does not want to take responsibility for. Perhaps the real issue is his relationship with his own father who may have been violent and he felt powerless as a child to do anything about that violence. Now as an adult he can confront his father and relate to him as an adult and not as a child and he can walk away from that relationship. It seems much easier to him to try and change every man in the world than it is to face the reality of his own relationship. That is what he must do but there is a time and place for that and the media and social forums is not that place. All he is doing is exposing himself emotionally and showing us that he has some kind of personal issue that he cannot find an answer to.

Without delving too deeply into his emotional make-up it is hard to say exactly what his issue is but is for sure and certain not the world wide problem of domestic violence

I think you may be reading too much into it, phanto.

>>If we have heard all this before and he has no answers then the only conclusion we can draw is that he is trying to make some personal appeal for help in his own life.<<

Long on rhetoric, loaded to the gills with guilt-inducement and blame-sharing, and woefully short on anything more than bland platitudes by way of a solution...

"Indeed, what we men can do, and indeed what we must do, is recognise that a culture enables and perpetuates those realities both exists and is extremely harmful. What we men must do is ally with women."

The fellow is destined to be just another politician.

Lucky us.

As the other posters have noted, the article is long on rhetoric, but its use of statistics may also be dodgy.. the article says at least one women a week is killed by present or former partners but the link it gives is for statistics for 06-07 which states that 42 women were the victims of intimate partner in the year.. that's less than one a week. The author also carefully omits the other statistic that 28 male homocides are in the same category.. females killing abusive partners?.. perhaps (a portion may be gay partners killing one another).. but then we could ask how many of the males were reacting to intolerable situations, or bitter custody battles, by killing.. as always, the details tend to get in the way of a good story.

well I suggest Tasman that you start looking closely at Indigeneous culture as the violence is at a rate far and above ( maybe except for the Islamic based regions) that of the rest of the population in Australia.