cressida Posted July 24 Author Share Posted July 24 (edited) SHOCKING The new report, titled The National Policing Statement for Violence Against Women and Girls, found that offences involving violence against women and girls in 2022/23 made up 20 per cent of all crime. SHOCKING } } Edited July 24 by cressida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 To use another awful cliche, it's not much of a man that hits a woman. True though. My Dad taught me that, my Mum agrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 On 23/07/2024 at 13:21, peak4 said: I wonder how many contributors to this topic actually read the post to which Cressida was referring. To make it easier, here's a link avoiding the paywall. Violence against women soars by 40% as police chief brands crime rate a ‘national emergency’ As mentioned earlier, we also have the Andrew Tate and related issues to contend with; separately, try entering the term "leathering" into this forum's search engine and see how often promotion/normalisation of violence occurs. My posts mentioning "leathering " are tongue in cheek . Don't try to score points about it . It makes you sound pathetic . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_DADDY Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 30 minutes ago, hackey lad said: My posts mentioning "leathering " are tongue in cheek . Don't try to score points about it . It makes you sound pathetic . Fella, don't bother. You don't need to explain yourself. Christ alive!! Even in the days where we didn't get on it was clear to me that's just banter, a joke and nowt more. Some people just like to be (or pretend to be) offended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Bundy Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 9 hours ago, hackey lad said: My posts mentioning "leathering " are tongue in cheek . Don't try to score points about it . It makes you sound pathetic . Don't worry, we all know that. It's a poor attempt to try and get you either banned or their attempts at self righteousness because of insecurities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padders Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 3 hours ago, Al Bundy said: Don't worry, we all know that. It's a poor attempt to try and get you either banned or their attempts at self righteousness because of insecurities. He likes that word Al. It contains 10 letters.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alextopman Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 13 hours ago, hackey lad said: My posts mentioning "leathering " are tongue in cheek . Don't try to score points about it . It makes you sound pathetic . I thought it was because you are a window cleaner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echo beach Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 On 23/07/2024 at 10:12, cressida said: One in twelve women have suffered abuse which has escalated Violence against anyone in a civilised society is unacceptable. One of the problems in the digital world we now inhabit is that gross unsuitable material can be accessed by anyone at the press of a button. My granddaughter who is not yet eleven says many of her classmates watch films certified as 15! Their parents are abrogating their responsibilities and that is becoming more of a norm. When you look at the content of programmes now on TV, radio and films in the cinema it is evident that standards have dropped alarmingly over the past 60 years. Many children of today don’t have a childhood as I and most of my generation knew it. It is often not in their nature to be violent but when they are raised, or should I say dragged up, by indifferent selfish parents who set terrible standards and couldn’t care less about what their children are doing and where they are, then is there any wonder we now have the society we have! echo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peak4 Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 13 hours ago, The_DADDY said: Fella, don't bother. You don't need to explain yourself. Christ alive!! Even in the days where we didn't get on it was clear to me that's just banter, a joke and nowt more. Some people just like to be (or pretend to be) offended. No I'm not offended, folk should have realised that by my posting style by now; just trying to make people look at things a different way. Yes I know that terms such as this are intended as light hearted banter, and not necessarily a direct call to violence. Elsewhere on this forum and others, we regularly read comments like "Good" about someone being kicked in the head, or hoping that prison inmates are assaulted; yes again just banter from behind a keyboard. This thread is specifically about about violence against women, most of which occurs in the home. I'm questioning whether such banter is appropriate overall, as low level comments constantly circulating may create a level of acceptability of certain types of behaviours; be that domestic violence, misogyny, race or religious baiting sexism etc. I vividly recall a work colleague quite openly telling me how he'd assaulted his wife the previous evening, then blamed her, as though it was normal, and fully and genuinely expected me to agree with him. Not that long ago, "banter" against gays was common, but hopefully we've stared to move away from that; perhaps the time is due to condemn all violence. There is often an an immediate deflection away from violence against women on various threads, by claims of women being violent against men. It does seem a little odd to me, that very often those who joke about violence, are the first to bring up Jo Brand's satirical comment about acid in a comedy show. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top4719 Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 11 hours ago, echo beach said: Violence against anyone in a civilised society is unacceptable. One of the problems in the digital world we now inhabit is that gross unsuitable material can be accessed by anyone at the press of a button. My granddaughter who is not yet eleven says many of her classmates watch films certified as 15! Their parents are abrogating their responsibilities and that is becoming more of a norm. When you look at the content of programmes now on TV, radio and films in the cinema it is evident that standards have dropped alarmingly over the past 60 years. Many children of today don’t have a childhood as I and most of my generation knew it. It is often not in their nature to be violent but when they are raised, or should I say dragged up, by indifferent selfish parents who set terrible standards and couldn’t care less about what their children are doing and where they are, then is there any wonder we now have the society we have! echo. This was happening quite regularly in the 80's with the advent of VHS rentals etc, I'm not seeing that as an excuse at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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