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Justice for Men & Boys 
Well surprising to me. Given my “lived experience” of the GM “End the Fear” programme on Domestic Abuse actively blocking attempts to set up a tiny support group and help line for male victims some years ago. I will look into this further as I genuinely hope that it indicates some changes. In my working on this in the past I found that many “coal face” Police, Social workers, Homelessness workers and even Womensaid staff and volunteers were supportive because they were confronted by the reality. Homelessness and Police in particular. The real blockages came from lobbying at “headquarters”, feminists are excellent at deploying at the right decision making level and places. Their MO is to block any funding going into services or research about male victims so that such males remain invisible at a policy level. In a sense they learned the lesson from Erin Pizzey, by offering her refuge she started to make the issue visible, because there were then actual people to be counted (prior to this of course there were victims but often they were simply counted as amongst the “homeless” and dealt with as “homeless”) Realizing this it was the feminists who then tried to crush Erin’s attempt to set up refuges for men and who literally hounded her out of the organisation she founded and this country, when she persisted in trying to meet the need. For men’s refuges would have made visible male victimization. At first this was partly concerned with money as a later head of Refuge let slip to admit to there being male victims might interrupt the flow of public funds to women’s refuges etc. But of course it also could undermine the whole feminist enterprise if this crucial pillar of “gender inequality” was proven not to be “gendered” at all. For if its not “gendered” then the whole edifice of the oppression of women by “the Patriarchy” wobbles considerably.
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Thanks Nigel, good points, as always. Apart from feminist skulduggery, Erin has said many times that the well-off men who funded her refuges for women and children collectively offered not a penny towards refuges for men and children. The empathy gap, as always.
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