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A powerful and sobering read. Those of us who work with victims know this is true, the main difference in the UK is the reduced access to firearms but that only changes the means, not the social norm of VAWG. Thank you Zawn for the labour you put into giving us clear statistical evidence for what we experience or witness to be the societies we live in.

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Same in Australia as well…😞 besides less guns, all the same issues and occurrences

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The most violent abuser in my life was my baby brother.

Abuse by male partners is sadly more common and deserves more attention as it often involves children.

I hope you could write more about other forms of male abuse and exploitation of women. Their sisters, mothers, grandmothers and daughters. Unfortunately, it's very common, at least in my neck of the woods.

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I wish I could say that it is shocking, but it really isn’t. Rape has been essentially decriminalised in the UK and victim blaming is the norm. The terrible rhetoric of the MAGA cult in the US isn’t helping, even in the UK. It just seems to empower people to be their worst selves. Thank you for all you do, Zawn x

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Rather than standing around admiring the problem, I propose we finally follow Andrea Dworkin's advice.

Somewhere in that house, there's a butcher knife.

All womanity has to do is collectively decide on the date and the time of the Night of Kitchen Knives.

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Nov 1·edited Nov 1

Have you read about “blanket parties” in some Anishinaabe tribes?

In “Cunt” by Inga Muscio she advocates filling the cars of rapists with dead fish.

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In Australia, I believe Police should have nothing to do with Domestic Abuse. A new system is needed to handle this epidemic.

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Nov 1·edited Nov 1

The police instructed my ex on how to properly abuse my children and not get caught, on the night the kids called 911 after a violent incident where he hurt them. The police explained this in front of my kids who are all school age. Yes, abuse is a male human right. Welcome to America (in my case).

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The piece about protective orders is ridiculous. It makes sense to me that essentially anyone should be able to get a protective order against anyone who makes them feel unsafe. As you said, losing the right to access ONE person hardly infringes on my right of free movement, at all! It just shows how little we can be bothered to protect women from actual violence when a man's right to complete and total freedom might be threatened. For fuck's sake.

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Is there a data base of judges who have failed women in the ways Zawn mentions? An Emily’s List for judges?

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