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4 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
‘Not my experience’: Liberal MPs say they haven’t witnessed sexism. (BUT see my further comments.) smh.com.au/politics/feder…
Men and sexism: Men are less likely than women to recognise both interpersonal sexism (in derogatory statements about women, sexually harassing behaviours, etc.) and institutional forms of discrimination. Drury, in full text here: xyonline.net/sites/xyonline…
Among men, many simply do not recognise, or indeed defend, existing gender inequalities. Men have been shaped by lifetimes in a gender-unequal world, so that sexism becomes normal, taken-for-granted, and invisible. ‘Men Make a Difference’ report p15, here: xyonline.net/content/men-ma…
See also my further commentary here: . (Sorry I didn't put it all in one thread.)

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Sexual assault facts: Most victims don’t report. Most delay disclosing or reporting, or never report. 83% of Australian women assaulted didn’t report their most recent incident of SA to police. 4 in 10 didn’t seek advice or help from others. aic.gov.au/publications/t… @AICriminology
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#NotAllMen: Some men respond with “Not all men” when they hear about men’s violence against women. Here are 5 problems with #NotAllMen. 1) Nobody was making any claims about “all men” in the first place. Women *know* it’s not all men. 1/4
2) It’s a defensive reaction, focused on men’s hurt feelings and egos rather than the real, widespread problem of some men’s violence against women
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4) It’s a sidetracking of the conversation. The discussion isn’t about the men who *aren’t* a problem.
5) It misses the point: the violence that some men do gives all men a bad name. It makes all men a potential threat. 3/4
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31 May
Gender inequality: Men are part of the problem and part of the solution. Speech by Michael Flood. 5 points: 1) Gender shapes everyone’s lives. 2) Australia is a gender-unequal society, with a systematic pattern of female disadvantage & male privilege. xyonline.net/content/gender… 1/4
3) Feminism has made a positive difference. 4) Men are part of the problem. Gender inequalities are sustained in part by men – by men’s attitudes, behaviours, identities, and relations. Male privilege is personal: most men have acted in sexist ways. Myself included. 2/4
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Mapping norms of masculinity: New report on people’s attitudes in Australia, ‘Masculinities and Health’. Shows broad support for progressive understandings: Gender is socially constructed. Support for equality. But also support for regressive messages. See vichealth.vic.gov.au/breakingstereo…
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Attitudes to men & masculinity: Australian survey finds widespread recognition of the need to open up gender roles for men. Most people agree that progress towards gender equality will be good for men. @VicHealth @theEQI @Mark_Chenery @whisewomen vichealth.vic.gov.au/breakingstereo…
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17 May
Talking about consent is not enough. Knowledge about consent is necessary but not sufficient, for preventing sexual assault. By Ahona Guha, March 8 2021. smh.com.au/national/talki… 1/4
"a significant majority of men who sexually victimise women have some understanding that they are breaching boundaries […] Perpetrators often know that consent has not been given, but ignore this.” 2/4
Sexual assault is not a crisis of a lack of knowledge about consent, but a crisis of *ignoring consent*. We need wider, more frequent community conversations regarding consent. “We need to talk about the entitlement that some boys and men feel to women’s bodies and to sex" 3/4
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Consenting to touch I didn’t want: One woman’s exploration of how often women give ‘empty consent’ to touch by men they don’t really want or feel ambivalent about, e.g. because fear something worse. nytimes.com/2021/03/31/mag… 1/4
Affirmative consent laws are valuable, but are implemented in a world in which vast numbers of people (women) are conditioned from childhood to consent to touch we don’t want. 2/4
Story of a "cuddle party", with explicit norms of affirmative consent. And how even in this context, women’s internalised compliance can mean that they agree to touch without a genuine assessment of their own desires 3/4
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