Negotiate or Manipulate

[LP]

Unfortunately we have a society where violence all too often rears its ugly head and domestic violence is one aspect or manifestation of this, with devastating results in some cases.

I feel that it is unfortunate that gender aspects are gaining most of the reporting and fueling a sort of gender war, where there may be many more underlying causes. The real enemy is violence IMO, one person on another and this includes all aspects of abuse bullying and harassment. Focusing on it as a gender issue could be detracting from the efforts to rid society of this curse as it does no doubt give platform to some of the more extreme feminine agendas as well purely anti violence ones.

Knob that he is, Latham could have a point and his arguments should not be totally ignored.

I think you're correct Cookie, as I've concluded we need a unified approach not a divisive approach. Marginalising someone with a Latham like perspective will only ensure the community remains divided. They need to bring those who think like him into the debate.

A lot of the publicly loud participants in this debate, those making political gains from it, need to study up on the Milgram Experiment and how it went wrong. It showed how wrong people could be, in this case the legal profession, when cherry picking the evidence. Milgram performed dozens of psychological experiments, and the legal profession chose the only study that supported it's desired outcome.