My thanks to A for sending me a link to a piece about previous speakers at the Durham Union Society:
http://www.dus.org.uk/Celebrity_Addresses
The text above the photograph explains the photograph is of Patrick Stewart of Star Trek fame. He’s also a celebrated Shakespearean actor. His ability to represent other people is legendary, and this photograph is all the proof you need. In it Stewart looks uncannily like Professor Lord Winston, who also once spoke at the Durham Union Society.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Patrick Stewart,famous star trek and X-Men actor. Is a interesting case. Long a poster boy for Domestic Violence campaigns he researched his father’s war experience. His father who had been abusive, the reason for Patrick Stewarts campaigning. Like so many soldiers Mr. Stewart’s father had never talked about his WW2 experiences. It turned out his father had a pretty traumatic time. Indeed it became clear that he had had a period of “shell shock” before returning to duty for another traumatic period. Mr. Stewart reevaluated his father in terms of what we would now identify as classic post traumatic mental illness. Not excusing the abuse it did show that far from being the result of a patriarchal ideology, his father’s apparent domineering behaviours were clearly the result of his wartime trauma. Why mention this? Well just because Mr. Patrick’s journey showed so clearly, in one story , the stupidity of the Feminist Patriarchy theory and the damage it causes. Finally it helped Patrick Stewart understand his mother, who knew more of her husband’s traumas and had tried to her best to deal with her very damaged husband. Who had come back from war a different person.
Sadly we are little further on now. In a similar situation a struggling partner will just get lectured about their oppression and the abuser dragged through the criminal justice system and possibly “treatment” that amounts to little more than political lectures.
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Patrick Stewart is a gender feminist who repeatedly lies about domestic violence and regularly gives sexist speeches on the topic.
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http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/08/it-s-never-just-domestic It seems, sadly hequal that you are correct about Mr Stewart. Sadly I have just lost a lot of time for one of my favourite actors.
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