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My apologies for my rapid disappearance from Facebook last week. I had completely hit the wall with the difficulties I was facing with being continually harassed and threatened due to my advocacy for men and shared parenting. As a direct result of this infiltrating my local community I have had to leave my home and move away from the area. The aim that I should be “run out of town” came to fruition in so much as I felt unsafe particularly with recent significant intimidations and at that time I made my final decision to leave.
The Elephant In The Room #16Days of Awareness of Violence Against Women Myths
Australia is currently blinded by the narrative created that only women are worthy of protection and only women can be victims of domestic violence. Radical feminist groups like Destroy The Joint have been successful in creating great mistruths about the ‘epidemic’ of domestic violence in Australia. Their tally of women killed includes women who have suicided, women who have died where it is unknown who the perpetrators were and women who are murdered by other women. Their success has been in bringing them all under one banner that every woman is a victim of ‘societal misogyny’ and the media AND our government believe that all these women were killed in domestic violence by men.
When the media reports a story about a violent, abusive or murderous female it has bias in the way it speaks about them and when domestic violence is involved they carefully construct the headlines so as to not speak out against the agenda which says that men (particularly) don’t suffer at the hands of women.
The issue with this is that our government seems incapable of research to understand that the deaths of women this year are no worse than last year – there is no epidemic, there is just mis reporting and falsifying and inflating figures.
Destroy The Narrative is a social media campaign to raise awareness of female perpetrators. It reports the victims of women killed this year in Australia that include men, women and children. The purpose of this campaign is not to dismiss the importance of protection of women, but to raise awareness that men, women and children are all worthy of protection and that women are perpetrators too.
If we can bust this current myth and media created hysteria we aim to bring awareness that we desperately need services for men and their children which include
- Shelters and emergency accommodation
- Financial assistance to flee domestic violence
- Assured access to legal aid and dedicated service for male victims
- Support lines for men in crisis staffed by people who understand male victims
To date I have been raising awareness through writing, researching and creating video content. The narrative is slowly changing through this work and that of my of my men’s rights colleagues who are also working tirelessly for change.
Now that Relating To Men has established a considerable body of work with substantial and irrefutable evidence it’s time to take it to the next level of advocacy in approaching government to affect the changes we so desperately need.
This work comes at significant personal expense and is entirely self funded. All donations to continue to fund this work are gratefully appreciated.