Men don’t rape or abuse women because they need more education, counselling or advice.
They do it because they want to, because they can, because they know that society doesn’t believe women & because the chances of prosecution are less than 1%
No sex offender turns around after 6 sessions or an educational video and says, ‘oh my god, you’re right, I’m an abusive, violent rapist and need to change my own behaviour, and stop targeting women and girls and then blaming it on them.’
It’s time to stop saying things like:
‘If they just knew more about consent/healthy relationships/abuse/misogyny - then they wouldn’t behave like this’
What makes you think that they don’t understand consent?
They do, that’s WHY they rape women who don’t want it
To be CRYSTAL clear, people are commenting and quote tweeting this saying that this is the reason women need to learn to protect themselves from sex offenders
HARD NO.
Stop holding women responsible for male violence. ESPECIALLY when we don’t even hold men responsible.
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For years, more and more services that should be statutory and government funded have had to be replaced with charities and donations because the govt stops funding them. To the point where we are literally donating now to schools, NHS, foodbanks & shelter.
Govt isn’t even providing basic human rights at this point, and we are all expected to be so happy when someone walks up a mountain or releases a song to donate to a service that we literally pay taxes for already.
No one should be having to raise money for stat services.
But it’s framed as positive isn’t it? An elderly man raises millions for the NHS and he’s a bloody hero. He is. Of course. But why on earth did he even need to do that? The NHS isn’t a charity. It’s supposed to be funded correctly to function.
If you want to improve safeguarding and social care training, stop letting people with zero knowledge or qualifications in neuroscience and neuropsychology teach anything about the brain to professionals. The stuff I see terrifies me - some of it is hilariously wrong.
I studied neuropsychology, but didn’t specialise in it (it was originally what I wanted to do instead of forensic). But even I don’t offer training about the brain or neuroscience, and I always call my best friend (neuroscientist, PhD) and check my thinking or theories with her.
This often results in us both literally laughing and/or shaking our heads at training courses, speeches and videos for everyone from CPS to local authorities about the brain, trauma and neuroscience.
Please check the trainer is an actual professional in neuroscience/psychology.
This might actually be the sickest thing I’ve ever seen on the internet and I have seen some sick shit.
I won’t say what I’m thinking cos I’ll get banned off this platform
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Misogyny is still the most ignored form of hatred.
We are so behind in acknowledging, believing or tackling misogyny. We will never get to a place where we can change the world & make it safer for women and girls until we discuss misogyny like we do all other forms of hatred.
Misogyny is so belittled and ignored that, as a form of hatred and oppression, most people claim it doesn’t even exist.
That’s where we’re at with misogyny at the moment. The reason we can’t tackle it is because it’s not even acknowledged as real in some places
From what I can gather from family court hearings, the advice is
‘Always believe children when they disclose abuse, except for when they are in family court when it’s obviously some sort of parental alienation plot by mum. The abuse never happened and the kid is lying.’
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I just don’t get it.
Professionals being told to ignore disclosures of abuse by family court judges and writing that any further disclosures of abuse must be treated as lies to defame the dad. Reports stating the the child should apologise to dad for ‘lying about abuse’.
This goes against every single bit of safeguarding legislation we have