Bettina (‘Tina’) Arndt (67) is an Australian sex therapist, journalist, and clinical psychologist. She’s a very well-known figure in the Australian mainstream media. The people organizing ICMI17 are understandably excited that she’ll be speaking at ICMI17, and if you want to get a sense of why, you should catch this video (21:26) of her speaking about domestic violence – and the demonisation of men generally – broadcast by Sky News (Australia) recently.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Interesting but I note that the professional media men are still genuflecting towards women’s privilege (‘we’ve got daughters, we welcome the fact that 60% of graduates are women’, and other examples) and no one, apart from Erin Pizzey, seems to understand that there are relationships in which destructive physical violence is simply a normal part of the bonding process. I’m not suggesting that such relationships are healthy or desirable but that there is a very different way of viewing them, which is ignored and denied by the domestic violence business. An indication of just how far we have to go is that, just as blacks alone are allowed to speak publicly about race relations so it seems that, with rare exceptions such as yourself Mike, only women feel able to speak truthfully about sexual relations. Men in the public eye or sensitive positions are generally still too timid to speak up.
It’s also worth pointing out that what we have been taught to call ‘domestic violence’ is simply violence, which is very much part of of our animal nature. We need that violent aspect for all sorts of things, not the least of which is our inventiveness, and even if that were otherwise, we are not perfectible, which means that to some extent the problem is always going to be with us. Education, upbringing and training can help to reduce the levels of violence in our societies but it is never going to be eradicated. External social and economic stress must also be looked at as factors.
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