Wolly B, something tells me that the women around you would feel the need to be more aggressive....verbally anyway...

In any case, you will get plenty of support for your stance on this site.
You are just as bad as the women who blame all men for DV, because you blame all women.

Ouch! Susie

Making personal attacks, is that not controlling behaviour?

Susie, just where did Wolly do that?

Right is right and individual, sad posts. Two aspects that bother me.
- First the sense that women do suffer with self image issues to a far greater degree than men. My imoression is that too much of that is driven by womens magazines and competiveness with other women andnsome by dispariging comments from some men. I saw a very couragous video recent from a woman trying to raise fund to produce a video on body image. A link and article at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/14/embrace-taryn-brumfitt_n_5318178.html
- Amongst the women I know none look male and most are well over 30. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes as do they males I know in that age bracket. Many struggle with weight in places they don't want it, getting older, the pressures and constraints of parenting and careers will do that. I'm noticing that as I get older my appreciation for looks that are not just about youth has grown. The age bracket of beauty that I can appreciate has grown with me as well as the role of personality and character in shaping my impression of beauty amongst those I know.

Attacks on womens appearance and particularly the things about appearance that are the natural results of aging as our bodies do, not of abuse are damaging to people who for whatever reason carry unreasonable expectations about how they should look and sometimes very harmful self image. We can't do much about the material in womens magazines that feeds that stuff but adding to it is not something to be proud of.

R0bert

Right is right, Individual,
“Mehr Moral, aber weniger Moralin!” (More Morality, Less Moralism!)
Joseph Goebbels 27/01/1934:
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb60.htm
"Save us from these hypocritical creatures who have no genuine strong conception of life, and who in reality preach no honest morality. They generally are life’s losers, protesting life itself. Eternal life and its laws will hardly make way for them; at most, they will hide behind a screen of contemptible hypocrisy and dishonest prudery."They think that the German woman should not go out alone, she should not sit alone in a restaurant, she should not go out with a boy or even an S.A. man without a chaperone for a Sunday afternoon excursion, she should not smoke, she should not drink, she should not wash up and make herself pretty, in short she should do everything to keep the evil interest of a man away from her. That is, at least, is how these midget moralists think a German woman should behave. And woe to the poor womanly creature who has the misfortune to transgress against one of these laws. Of course, no German woman will have bobbed hair, since only Jewesses and other contemptible creatures do that!

Have these moral trumpeters any idea how they slander and demoralize millions of German women with their preaching, women who bravely and honestly do their duty in life and on the job, who are good comrades to their men and sacrificing mothers for their children?"

The Labor Party obviously thinks it can win some cheap votes through pretending that domestic violence only affects women and children, and in heterosexual relationships of course. Check the tone of this,

<Labor promises royal commission into family violence if elected

Australia will get its first royal commission into family violence if Labor wins this year's state election.

With figures showing domestic violence homicides soaring in Victoria, Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews announced on Saturday that the sweeping review would begin early next year - "and nothing will be off limits".

Mr Andrews said the royal commission would examine family violence "from the ground up", looking into the criminal system, the courts, health services, housing, education, alcohol and drugs.

A panel of survivors and support providers will advise and assist the commission, which will report to parliament by the end of 2015.

In a strongly-worded speech at Labor's state conference, Mr Andrews admitted the family violence system was broken, and "we won't fix it until we admit it".

"It doesn't protect the vulnerable, it doesn't punish the guilty, it doesn't save enough lives," he said.

"We expect victims to make a deeply personal and terrifying leap; to come forward and seek protection, but we're not doing our bit. We're not there to catch them when they make that leap. Instead, those seeking help fall into endless waiting lists."

Labor's push to tackle the crisis comes amid a massive increase in domestic violence homicides, with 13 people arrested in 2011-12 , rising to 45 last financial year.

It also comes after a series of high profile cases, including the brutal slaying of 33-year-old mother Fiona Warzywoda allegedly by her de-facto partner last month, and the death of 11-year-old Luke Batty at a junior cricket club in Melbourne's south-east at the hands of his father.

The Napthine Government sought to address the issue in its budget two weeks ago, allocating $4.5 million to beef up a successful pilot program that brings together family violence services, police, corrections and courts to keep women and children safe.>
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/labor-promises-royal-commission-into-family-violence-if-elected-20140517-38gb6.html

Maybe Labor ought consider representing all Australians?

RObert, you think I am being too tough on WollyB?

"So in reality if we really want to end DV, a two pronged attack is needed, the first is too get women to stop using their controlling behaviour, and for men to learn effective tactics to deal with their controlling behaviour."

You could read this silly statement two ways I imagine, but the way I read it was that DV is caused by women who have 'controlling behaviour', and all their men have to do is learn how to 'deal with' this behaviour.
A bit simplistic don't you think?
But definitely anti-women.....