I am unconvinced of the usefulness of constantly pointing out that men are stronger than women & therefore women are at a physical disadvantage if confronted by a male violent criminal.
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Not really. Men perpetrate the violence. Violence is not a problem on its own because it doesn’t exist without a perpetrator. I’m a man and I recognize my capacity for violence is greater than the vast majority of women. /1
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Most violence is committed by men. But vast majority of men are not violent, either towards other men or in their domestic relationships.
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Certainly. I'm not saying most men are violent. I'm not saying men are responsible for other men's violence. I'm saying there is a problem with a subset of people, mostly male, who commit the vast majority of violence. That's probably not happenstance and is relevant truth.
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Yes, but it is not clear that it is worth going on and on about in the service of collective blame. https://twitter.com/the_internaut/status/927651105315491841 …
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Nothing I said was in the service of collective blame. Again, "on and on" is a pejorative in a discussion about violence. If I bring it up when we're talking about what to get for lunch, you have a point.
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Yes, kareem. When I criticise people who go on & on about an issue, it is people who go on and on about the issue I am criticising. If you're going to say 'I think you really mean people who raise the subject relevantly' the conversation is over.
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I might as well say that 'violence' is a pejorative and when you criticise it you really mean people asserting themselves politely. How do you think problems will ever get solved if we can't do that?
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If you want to target violence as an independent thing that’s fine I guess, but rather like targeting terrorism without confronting radical Islam e.g.
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