This remains true even if the former culture has not succeeded in eradicating violent criminals. The system is much better for women.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It's no good saying it's equivalent because the women are equally dead unless you truly think systemic human rights abuses don't matter.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
The 'violent offender acting against social norms' problem is a different one to the 'violent social norms' problem.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Its extremely unlikely violent criminals will cease to exist. We don't judge a society by them but by how it responds to them.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Ours tends to judge men committing violence against women more harshly than women committing violence against men. Male entitlement? Where?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
This doesn't mean that violent misogynistic men don't exist. It just means their attitudes & actions are in opposition to societal norms.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
This matters when working out how to deal with the problem. Blaming 'society' or 'men' is unlikely to be beneficial.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
This is so pertinent to an argument I had interjected myself in when I should have known better.
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Replying to @tjaffry
That is the one I am responding to. I saw it. No point interjecting as you know.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Couldn't help myself, it had literally been going on for hours.
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