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Exercising our rights: women, violence and freedom : Comments

By Evelyn Tsitas, published 25/3/2015

When an act of terrorism occurs, the message from authorities after the dust has settled is loud and clear – do not change the way you live, do not give into fear. That way the terrorists will have won.

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Author, "In Melbourne the murder of Doncaster schoolgirl Masa Vukotic, 17, has caused the media and the public to question whether women can ever exist safely in society"

What about Daniel Morcombe?

www.danielmorcombe.com.au
Posted by onthebeach, Friday, 27 March 2015 6:16:58 PM
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http://www.danielmorcombe.com.au/
Posted by onthebeach, Friday, 27 March 2015 6:17:43 PM
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Is Mise,
Do your own legwork, go looking for reports of Indian sex offenders and you'll find them, I don't have to prove anything because it's common knowledge.
Is there or is there not a chronic problem with sexual abuse of women in India? Australia has a problem with Indian sex offenders too and
if you want I can sit here posting links until I use up my post limit:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/taxi-driver-jailed-for-raping-drunk-and-drugged-17yearold-student/story-fni0fee2-1226777177635

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-23/man-jailed-over-27palm-reading27-assaults-on-vline-trains/5544688

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/jail-for-rapist-gp-who-took-photographs-during-assaults-20101116-17wme.html

http://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/police-hunt-for-man-after-he-ejaculated-on-womans-back-at-st-kilda-festival/story-fnj4aog3-1227221123275

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2948694/A-mother-tricked-having-sex-Indian-man-met-online-pretended-blonde-beefcake-called-Jamie-kids-slept-door.html#ixzz3RRbWeVmC

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/man-accused-of-assaulting-sydney-women-and-trying-to-kidnap-them-fronts-court-20141102-11fphv.html
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Friday, 27 March 2015 7:25:39 PM
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The whole idea of an epidemic of violence against women is a absolute fabrication. If you don't believe me, read in detail the Australian Institute of Criminology's report just released, "Homicides in Australia: 2010–11 to 2011–12: National Homicide
Monitoring Program report".

• Female victimisation reached an historic low and
remained stable across 2010–11 (n=90) and
2011–12 (n=92), with a rate of 0.8 per 100,000.

38% of domestic homicide victims were male and 24% of intimate partner killings were male (overwhelmingly by a female perpetrator). Read the report.

Full report is found at:
http://www.aic.gov.au/media_library/publications/mr/23/mr23.pdf

This is the government's own report and the leading authority on homicide statistics in Australia. Not only that, but domestic homicides as a proportion of total homicides have steadily declined over the last 25 years.

A female is indeed killed every 7 days in domestic homicides. That's true. And a male is killed every 10 days in domestic homicides. It's all bad stuff and we need better crime prevention. But please respond to facts not propaganda!
Posted by rogindon, Friday, 27 March 2015 8:18:02 PM
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Rogindon,
Yes the "War On Women is an exaggeration, we can't trust the media and feminist academics to report honestly on anyy matter at all however Killarney made some very specific, very dangerous claims based on a discredited Feminist manifesto from 1971.
Rape and violence against women generally are not crimes of power projection by one gender over another, they are routinely revealed as crimes committed by powerless men against defenceless women.
Envy, frustration, despair and feelings of worthlessness, inadequacy and insecurity motivate many such men, the historical stories of American killers Edmund Kemper and Harvey Glatman and Englishman Fred West are revealing in that regard, as is the case of Peter Dupas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vq0gyPr4MI
These are the real misogynists and they're thankfully very rare creatures.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Friday, 27 March 2015 9:00:41 PM
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Oh, dear. So many hostile comments. So little time!

Jay

You seem to be missing your own point. Of course, powerless men attack women in a sexually degrading manner. That’s exactly the point I am making and what Susan Brownmiller and many other feminists have made. Disturbed men commit rape to assert their power in a society that has deprived them of power – by attacking and degrading those lower than them in the food chain, i.e. women.

Though committed by disturbed men, rape and sexual assault are still gender political crimes.

You also ignore the point I made about rape in war. Ordinary, nice men commit war rape because it provides them with an impunity not available in peace time. But that’s almost never acknowledged. How could our boys fighting for our freedom be anything other than heroic and glorious? War rape is only recognised when our enemies do it – and even then, it’s often covered up for political reasons, e.g. Soviet war rape at the end of WWII, Japanese ‘comfort women’, the Nazi ‘Joy Division’ etc.
Posted by Killarney, Saturday, 28 March 2015 3:12:53 AM
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