An interesting piece from the BBC.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
A really hopeful piece in terms of some serious research and even positive words from Politicians. I sincerely hope this is translated into support for the excellent organizations that try to support men. Of course this isn’t the first such to note the underreporting by males. I do have some hope because in England it is often in the Shire counties that the Police and other bodies have made genuine attempts to reach males. The stranglehold over public policy is strongest in the metropolitan areas and “the Westminster bubble”.
Though generally good the reporter can’t help but try the emotive “women have it worse” tack. While accurately reporting “According to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), from August 2023 to July 2024 there were four homicides in Northern Ireland with a domestic abuse motivation. The victims were two males and two females.” And that in the previous year 4 females and 2 males were killed in similar circumstances. A little later is links to a piece doing a “Jess Philips” listing 24 women killed “over the past four years which of course includes cases unrelated to domestic abuse and needless to say excludes any mention of males murdered in the same time period. Of course in truth such murders are statistically so rare there are no reliable conclusions that can be drawn from them other than they are very rare. However inclusion of the 24 women stat. is obviously there to counter the impression by the recent stats that in NI such things are far from “gendered”. It is a classic of feminist dissembling to maintain the idea that somehow its never perpetrated by women, by simply ignoring male victims. Just as the VAWG strategy includes male victims of sexual crimes and domestic abuse, violence and homicide in stats that are labelled “women and girls”.
As I say in reality homicides are so rare overall in the UK and those associated with Domestic situations are rarely more than a quarter (with usually between a quarter and a third of the victims male) the only reliable conclusion is that the UK is remarkably free of murder. Of course the other advantage of concentrating on such murders, for the feminists, is that it is impossible to irradicate altogether and therefore there is always “more needs to be done”! Though of course never for the invisible male victims.
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