the PM punching the wall on both sides of a woman's head at Uni all those years ago?
Suseonline,
Who was that PM ?

Suzie highlights an interesting point.

We now have both a PM and opposition leader who have been accused of acts against other people that can't be proven. Abbott has also had a false paternity claim against him, I suspect not a deliberate lie but certainly some very relevant information was withheld in the making of that claim (the mother having more than one sexual partner during the relevant period of time).

I'm undecided of the truth of either claim but try to respect the principle of innocence unless proven guilty (even if I might hold some personal views about the type of people they are).

I do wonder if having experienced those claims either will be more careful to protect the rights of those not convicted of a crime than they might otherwise be. I suspect not, time will tell.

R0bert

It gets a bit boring blaming feminists for all and sundry ills and am puzzled as to why feminists need to be blamed for domestic violence being unacceptable and women speaking up about it.

That aside, I agree that naming and shaming a person publicly who has an AVO against them is not a good thing. It would inflame an already dangerous situation. Not only men get AVO's and not only men in a domestic setting.

I can only assume that this seems to give the appearance to be doing something about the dreadful fact that about 1 woman a week is killed by a partner or ex. Not to mention the number who suffer physical injuries. We get panicky whenever 1 person is taken by a shark and go out shooting and killing sharks who is just doing what it does in it's own natural habit! The issue with physical violence, domestic or otherwise is overwhelmingly perpetuated by men and as the author of the article points out does not appear out of nowhere, but is the result of multiple factors.

Men are even more often the victim of violence at the hands of other men than women. There, as a feminist I'm standing up for all the boys and men suffering physical harm and death at the hands of other men. The men don't seem to be doing this for themselves. Don't blame women. It's even more of a men's issue.

It's equally plausible that we glimpse the "hidden hand" of traditionalist Liberals at play here as that of Feminists, in many respects conservatives are more dogmatic about gender issues than the Left.
You're just as likely to hear some variant of the "toxic masculinity" meme being spouted by some Neocon blowhard as a Radfem.
Feminism is premised on achieving female supremacy, traditionalism is based around a belief in innate female superiority, the differences are trivial, Feminism is just "scientific traditionalism" if you will.

Women's Lib was a timely and necessary movement, and it achieved much of it's goals.
However, as with all human affairs, once power was achieved there were those who got stuck in the propaganda, enjoyed the exercise of that power and cannot now accept that the war is over, all that's left is tidying up the details.
Hence we are now faced with the "Femnazis", the man-hating extreme edge of that once purposeful movement, and since their narrative is a total self-justifying illusion there can be no satisfying them, ever.
Personally I blame the Media. If they would exercise a little common sense then the femnazi's wouldn't get the coverage they do and we could all relax and enjoy the benefits that the women's movement brought to us all, men included.

Bruce, there is a small element of socalled feminazi's, but as with all movements, or philosophies, there are some who have other personal issues that then gets conflated.

Like with Christianity, for instance. In spite of the Runners, or the disgusting stuff that comes out of the leadership of the Catholic church, would you equate all Christians, or even all Catholics, with what a very few do and say?

It is truly appalling that this very important issue raised by the author descends into a anti-feminist rant. It is NOT about feminism. Or any other ism for that matter. It is about violence and how violent men are products of their environments. They weren't born that way.