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Hursty how do we stop these crimes being committed?

Men not behaving like ignorant idiots, and refusing to believe they’re part of the problem would be a fantastic start.

      Along_the_Wire How tall are you and how much do you weigh?

      That’s the extreme opposite point to Hursty’s though, the idea that if you are well-built you can handle yourself and don’t need to worry.

      Ask my mate who is a well built centre half with the ability to leg it (both fast and with aerobic fitness), he’ll tell you about being hospitalised from a random shit-kicking he had walking back alone from a night out where he nearly got his face caved in.

          Basically, how hard you are doesn’t really matter if they have the numbers and / or mug you with knife.

          vinnyt77 Please explain further Vin, so you are part of the problem amongst everyone other bloke on here, so how are you tackling this issue proactively?

              Not sure anyone is saying its not a problem. More people have issue with the politicisation of it, amateur or professional. If anything it undermines or distracts from productive dialogue.

              Look at the state of this…

              Hursty Violence against women is predominantly a men’s problem, not a women’s problem.

              I do some, but probably not enough.

              • I take an active role in helping male kids I’m around a lot not to exacerbate some of the not so good social perspectives on gender.
              • I have lobbied (and will continue to lobby) National Government, my local MP and my local council to improve services for women who suffer from any form of abuse
              • I try to hold men accountable when I hear them spouting bullshit views about abuse towards women, whether friends, family, work colleagues or random internet people
              • I donate to a couple of women’s support charities on a monthly basis
              • I’ve been on a couple of protest marches in support of better action against abusers of women, though not since 2019

                  vinnyt77 Well that is a highly commendable list of proactive measures! Kudos to you, I’m nowhere near that and will endeavour to take a leaf out of your book. I’m currently snowed under trying to bring my up 6 year old lad to be a decent man however, so I see that as task No1!

                      Vinny clearly atoning for some outrageous behaviour 20 years ago that he still feels ashamed about

                        bosstrabs Closer to atoning for some fairly fucking horrendous behaviour I witnessed towards girls at my school by dickhead public school boys who thought they could get away with whatever they fucking liked….

                          alistair Hugo-Lite strikes again.

                          Men are far, far more likely commit violent crimes and mostly to other men involved in those crimes. To compare that to violence and abuse against women is obtuse at best.

                          I agree with you on the Guardian article to be fair, but the Guardian is a long way past it’s best.

                            Along_the_Wire vulnerable to what though? Sexual violence absolutely. Knife/gun crime absolutely not. Making the streets safer is an issue we can all get behind. Mental Guardian talk of 6pm male only curfews and a misogynist police force doesn’t help anyone.

                                Having attended a few hen dos, let me tell you I was absolutely petrified.

                                You put a good looking lad in a room with a load of inebriated women and mamma mia, you have got one explosive situation on your hands.

                                  Smallman1 You put a good looking lad in a room with a load of inebriated women and mamma mia, you have got one explosive situation on your hands.

                                  And what were you doing while that was going on?

                                    -si- except instead of a tiny hand, this one’s got a tiny cock

                                    • LT42 replied to this.

                                        alistair Women are allowed to be fucked off that they don’t feel safe walking home. Blokes are not getting raped and murdered as a result of walking home alone. Bleating on about violent deaths of men when the two things aren’t connected if really quite annoying - men fight other men in all sorts of different circumstances and at a far greater frequency than attacks on women, it’s common sense, but it’s completely different. Women are allowed to protest (within the covid rules) and shouldn’t be dismissed or trivialised for doing so.

                                        What the response should be is a positive one, more policing etc, not the trivialisation of what’s happened and men’s lives matter too bollocks.