West,

U wrote: "Christianity and Islam are both defined by their hatred of women..." ??

Whilst I agree with your anti-misogyny position, you made various wild sweeping statements one almost have to assume you have reasons to say the things you did.

My understanding is Christianity is about God's love, Islam is about submission. (You probably know what I think about Islam). Is my head completely in the sand?

Don't just mention statistics of sex abuse cases involving Christians. It may only be as meaningful as that Iranian Muslim claiming Iran is morally superior than western nations because it has very few rape cases.

Do you know any Christian who is taught to hate women, WHO IS PREPARED TO DEBATE ONLINE HERE?

I'd be most interested to find out if there is a Christianity that I know nothing about.

Thanks, Bronwyn, for a thoughtful piece. Any bloke who is serious about combatting violence against women should get involved in the White Ribbon Day campaign!!

http://www.whiteribbonday.org.au/

vivy said: "At the risk of sounding conceited, I am an extremely good looking women (in that I am of european heritage and have a shape that is uncommon to these parts of the world i.e unlike most australian born women I know, I actually have breasts!)"

ROFLMFAO!

vivy also said: "I have a body shape that attracts attension! (sic)"

That won't do you much good here.. :D

Irfan said: "Any bloke who is serious about combatting violence against women should get involved in the White Ribbon Day campaign!!"

What's all this White Ribbon Day crap? How about a Day dedicated to stopping violence against men as well as women? Wouldn't that in itself be an act of solidarity between the two sexes? And besides that, my understanding is that men are more frequently the victims of physical violence anyway..

Vivy
Your absolutely correct. I'm 6'2" and 240lbs., I'm not muscle bound nor am I fat. I get the looks and I get comments when I'm at the beach but, it seems to me they're commenting, men and women, more frequently when I'm dressed up in a nice suit.
I'm sorry folks, you can call me any bad name that comes to mind but, if you think I'm going backwards into the dark age of social development just to empower some socially retarded religion and it's blind followers, forget it. If you truly want to know what motivates rape don't play with numbers. Look into the peoples lives as a whole.

Us blokes can and do have problems, some caused by us and some by females. Often us men cannot help ourselves - not talking rape by the way. In PNG I lived at out-stations , at one the women from the maternity clinic used to splash in the ocean yards from me. They usually wore just a small, very small, lap-lap, they became in a short time just a part of the scenery. It was the same for the many many topless females in the local villages. I recal once coming into town, Madang, I went into a store where I was served by a young very attractive, well dressed and utterly charming indigenous lady. This lady bent over to get something and I found myself as if guided by instinct peering down the front of her dress. I was somewhat embarrassed at my actions or my perving, maybe her breasts were hidden which made me do what I did. Or maybe it was my male hormones these hormones do take over us unfortunate males at the wrong time and cause us to appear a little unbalanced perhaps. I do not know what the above proves - if anything. Regards, numbat
PS I have other stories about the same subject from my time in PNG but at present I will just threaten you with them.