One Billion Rising

[TestMangler]

Darmstadt, this is a good thread, and a thoughtful one. Hence why it is getting short shrift.

Perhaps we need a forum for IT contractors that aren't utter bellends?

There is one. You clearly don't know about it. Wonder why ?

[MyUserName]

Its basically trying to get people out on the street to protest, in a peaceful way, about violence against women. [/url]

Why protest against women who suffer violence? Why not protest against people or either gender who suffer violence instead?

My cousin was stabbed to death by his ex girlfriend and some of her friends - is that less important because he was a guy?

One of my friends was jumped and beaten by 4 strangers as he was making a phone call outside a pub. He almost died from the injuries but managed to survive and is now confined to a wheel chair - is that less important because he is a guy?

[Doggy Styles]

Why protest against women who suffer violence? Why not protest against people or either gender who suffer violence instead?

My cousin was stabbed to death by his ex girlfriend and some of her friends - is that less important because he was a guy?

One of my friends was jumped and beaten by 4 strangers as he was making a phone call outside a pub. He almost died from the injuries but managed to survive and is now confined to a wheel chair - is that less important because he is a guy?

There's a deep-set notion that women are incapable of physically (or mentally) abusing men.

During a BBC phone-in about wife abuse a couple of years ago, I've heard radio presenters and their experts actually snigger at the idea, when some poor bloke phoned in saying it happened to him.

[DimPrawn]

One billion rising?

Number of immigrants let in by Labour over last 13 years?

[MyUserName]

There's a deep-set notion that women are incapable of physically (or mentally) abusing men.

During a BBC phone-in about wife abuse a couple of years ago, I've heard radio presenters and their experts actually snigger at the idea, when some poor bloke phoned in saying it happened to him.

AAARGH!!! This is one of the few things that really infuriates me! My wife is 8 1/2 stone and about 5'4" but she is still perfectly capable of assaulting someone, especially someone who is conditioned not to fight back, especially if she has access to various things she could use as a weapon.

I was at the Tewkesbury battle re-enactment last year and got talking to a German guy. Apparently they were against a French group and things got tense to the point where a French guy ran forward and punched him in the face. This German happens to be a boxer so he rained a series of punches back at the Frenchman which were enough to dent the guy's visor in and send him spralling. Ructions broke out when the French guy got his lid open and everyone saw it was actually a girl - the French guys started shouting at this German and he just shrugged and said "she hit me first" (with a metal gauntlet on). It almost caused an actual armed fight between the two groups.

I could not get my head around why people thought he should not be entitled to defend himself against an armed assailent due to their gender.

[Doggy Styles]

I could not get my head around why people thought he should not be entitled to defend himself against an armed assailent due to their gender.

Agreed. A woman hits you, you hit her back, and guess who's up before the beak?

[escapeUK]

Its basically trying to get people out on the street to protest, in a peaceful way, about violence against women.

That has to be the most ironic thing I have ever heard. The way to have less violence against women is for them to shut up, not to go out protesting.

[Mich the Tester]

That has to be the most ironic thing I have ever heard. The way to have less violence against women is for them to shut up, not to go out protesting.

Who's supposed to shut up?

[escapeUK]

Who's supposed to shut up?

Have a think about it, Im sure you'll work it out.

[Mich the Tester]

Have a think about it, Im sure you'll work it out.

Right, so if women stop complaining about violence against women, there'll be less violence against women. Is that what you're trying to say?