Video / audio #441 from our archives: Deborah Powney – “The Male Victims Study: Busting the Gendered Myths” (ICMI20)
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Wife is spared jail for stabbing her husband for falling asleep while she was talking to him – after he told court it was a ‘one-off’ because ‘she is on the menopause’ | Daily Mail Online
Interesting. Yet another knife to the chest. Drink and menopause the excuse. And the husband is forgiving. Now just think if the sexes were reversed, our system would assume he was abusive, in full control of his faculties even when drunk or receiving hormone treatment (for Prostate cancer for instance) and “coercing” his wife into taking him back. And she’d be advised there is no such thing as a “one off” and her belief in this “myth” meant the prosecution must proceed whatever she thought. In this case the Police did the right thing, treated the case as Domestic Violence, and found their work wasted by a derisory sentence. You can see how even the good cops are reluctant to bring a case if its not going to result in much.
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