Letters to the Editor
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@ AKA
"I'll bite. How would you protect men against violence?"
In the ways that you mention. But also in our political decisions. I'm still taken aback at how you can dismiss or ignore Hillary's war vote.
One way to reduce violence is if we start rejecting is politically. Don't hit your kids and don't bomb you neighbors. We can get into the merits of self defense but with Iraq and threatened premption in Iran is permission that you can kill people before they even hurt you.
We can look at the way we treat our problems, locking up mentally ill and drug additcted people with the rapists and murderers. all of our social problems are addressed with war - the war on drugs the war on poverty- but I'm less concerned with linguistic war than with actual violence.
I'm going backwards here but another point:
"No, we are still there. Also, do you think that people didn't think these things were wrong in the past? They did!"
Some did, most didn't. It was acceptable until far too recently to beat your wife or or for either parent to beat their child. It was considered a private matter. It was ony in the last couple of decades people recognized spousal rape, date rape or grey rape at all. (Rape bad and crime prior but it was a crime of property not violence.)
All of this we can credit with the first and second wave of feminism. The second wave saw the need for itself - we're you throwing off, discarding or dissmissing the gains of the first wave? Certainly not! Neither is the third.