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My thoughts on amendment 87b to the #DomesticAbuseBill (making misogyny a hate crime). We shouldn't allow the tragedy of last week and the outrage over Sarah Everard's brutal murder to be exploited in a way that won't help women... (1/5)
While it's understandable that many have demanded action, we have to dispassionately consider the details of this law. We've been told that the police are institutionally misogynistic - do we really believe that the police hate women? Has misogyny become a catch-all term?...(2/5)
We're told that this is about accurately collecting data - but how do you quantify or record 'hate' reliably when it is based on the perception of the victim, rather than an understanding of the motive of the accused?...(3/5)
A late-night speech yesterday on an amendment in the #DomesticAbuseBill relating to smacking and children. There has been a rather grotesque conflation of 'battery' and 'smacking' - suggesting that every parent who smacks their child is committing a heinous criminal act... (1/4)
Violence and abuse against children is already against the law. Blurring the lines between what is intended to harm and injure and what is intended to discipline out of love is hugely damaging for families and denies the importance of intent and context...(2/4) #DomesticAbuseBill
How does it protect children to undermine parental authority? Parents are better placed to know how to raise their kids than endless lists of NGOs - even if they come waving state-approved best practice checklists about 'how to count to ten'...(3/4) #DomesticAbuseBill
THREAD to mark UN International day to #EndViolenceAgainstWomen which is today, 25th November, as per UN resolution 54/134. This is the date on which, in 1960, the Mirabal sisters, Dominican Republic activists, were murdered on the order of the Dominican Leader.
2. Why is International Day to #EndViolenceAgainstWomen women still needed? 49 countries have no laws against any violence in a marital/intimate relationship (also known as domestic abuse/violence). In 37, rapists escape prosecution if married to or eventually marry the victim
3. Across the world, including in the UK, women who are killed are more likely to be killed by partner, ex-partner or family member than any other category of person. In UK, two women per week are killed by partner or ex.
