About this site
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Its a parody. In July 2004 the Australian government launched a website similar to this one, highlighting violence against women, by men: www.australiasaysno.gov.au The website was accompanied by aTV media campaign, depicting (white) men as perpetrators of violence. The campaign was reported to cost $74 million. The campaign was relaunched in July 2005 and has had high rotation. A barrage of propaganda about men's physical brutality and ignorance.
The government campaign perpetuates falsesexual stereotypes of intimidation, abuse and violence in society. The threatening party should always be portrayed as the man, preferably a white man. Women should be portrayed as victims: innocent, pretty, sweet, demure, defenceless.
Although any serious violence against women should be opposed, any campaign that focuses only on violence against women is propaganda. Women are roughly equally violent to men in domestic situations, according to reputable research (and personal experience). In fact, when you include intimidation, verbal abuse, castigation, vitriol, Chinese water torture, manipulative language and threats, false accusations of sexual abuse, then women are vastly more abusive than men.
The dominant view in society
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We are all so used to thinking of violence as originating exclusively with men. Yet the irony is that women's violence is real, and is actually frequently reported in the media. But we block it out mentally. We think of it as an isolated instance, an aberration, abnormal. Only male violence is normal. It takes an acutely conscious analytical mind (such as my own) to observe the consistent and recurring phenomenon of women's violence.
Yes, in a sense feminists were right: women can do anything men can do, and better.