Violence Against Women
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Sunday, 29 November 2009
To Herald-Sun (unpubl)
CIVILISATION and REALITY
I am all for prohibiting men from physically attacking women. But I disagree with what I’ve read about training boys at school to the effect that women are always innocent victims. If what you’re teaching is not real, young people will not respond well.
Sometimes a female is nasty or provocative. Sometimes a male just imagines that she is. But what needs to be taught is that, even if you think a female is behaving badly, it is still not okay to use physical force. This is what civilisation actually demands of men.
It used to be called being a gentleman.