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Apr 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#NotAllMen? “Good men care about oppression. They care about the lived experiences of women. They understand that, without listening to women, they cannot learn what women experience. They believe women." 1/4
zawn.net/blog/hello-you…
"When women share their experiences and your responses is, "But not all men!" you undermine those experiences. You show no concern for oppression. You are not behaving as a good guy." 2/4
If you think a woman hates men because she hates rapists/abusers/assholes, then you think that all men are rapists/abusers/assholes, and the real person who hates men is you." 3/4
"To claim that a woman hates men because she hates some things some men do is a failure of reading comprehension." 4/4
For more critiques of #NotAllMen, see xyonline.net/content/engagi…

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Apr 11
Government plans for preventing men’s violence against women: “The Women’s Statement (a separate budget booklet) focuses on prevention as a women’s issue, with targeted efforts for key populations. It never mentions men as central to this work.” 1/4
theconversation.com/theres-1-3-bil…
“Prevention work is absolutely critical to reducing violence against women, but we need men to be a core part of this, and we need to name the problem of men’s violence.”
“We must recognise it is men’s violence that we are primarily seeking to address and eliminate." 2/4
“We need a federal commitment […] to recognising the systemic ways women’s inequality is linked to violence, and how violence and abuse is sustained via inequality." 3/4
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Apr 11
The Myth of Maternal Gatekeeping
By Zawn Villines
zawn.net/blog/slq90me1j… 1/4
Women who correct their partner's parenting aren't gatekeeping; they're protecting their families and their children from men who have not bothered to learn to do things right--or who, more likely, are deliberately doing things wrong so that their wives will stop asking for help.
"When women demand that their partners not leave their children untended, their home in shambles, and their pets running loose in the yard, proponents of maternal gatekeeping theory want us to believe that women are being unreasonable..." 3/4
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Apr 6
Healthy masculinity? What qualities are part of a positive, healthy, ethical alternative to the forms of patriarchal masculinity that sustain gender inequalities and limit men’s and boys’ own lives? First, some background on masculinity… 1/16
‘Masculinity’ refers to the meanings given to being male and the social organisation of boys’ and men’s lives and relations. So masculinity is part of identities, behaviours, interaction, peer cultures, media, and the formal and informal workings of institutions. 2/16
This definition of masculinity is open-ended. In any context, some versions of masculinity will be dominant – the most influential, given the most status. And these may be healthy or unhealthy, positive or negative. 3/16
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Apr 6
Boys, pornography, and sexual violence: A multi-country European study finds that young men who use porn regularly are more likely than other young men to perpetrate sexual violence (Stanley et al. 2018). Survey of 4,564 young people aged 14 to 17 in five European countries. 1/4
Boys were far more likely than girls to regularly watch pornography. Among boys, regularly watching pornography was associated with increased probability of being a perpetrator of sexual coercion. 2/4
Asked if they regularly watched online porn, the following proportions agreed: 44% of boys & 8% of girls in Bulgaria, 59% of boys & 3% of girls in Cyprus, 39% of boys & 3% of girls in England, 44% of boys & 5% of girls in Italy, and 48% of boys & 6% of girls in Norway. 3/4
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Apr 4
A focus on men and masculinities in preventing violence against women
This 13-pp. report from Our Watch highlights insights from a 2021 forum on work to address masculinities and engage men. 1/4
ourwatch.org.au/report/forum-o…
@OurWatchAus
Guiding principles for this work include:
1) Intersectionality
2) Aim to be gender transformative
3) Use strengths-based approaches
4) Maintain accountability to women
5) Look for solutions across all levels of society.
2/4
Key themes emerging from practitioner discussions:
Addressing masculinities and engaging men is central to all prevention work
Intersectionality must underpin prevention, and guide other principles of practice.
3/4
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Apr 4
Violence against women: 6 problems with focusing only on telling women how to maximise their safety
1) This fails to hold perpetrators accountable for their behaviour, and locates responsibility with the potential victims.
2) Women *already* use a multitude of such strategies 1/4
3) It accepts that some men will use violence, rather than focusing on how to prevent and reduce this, and places the burden on women to police and limit their lives.
4) The strategies are false assurances. Women may ‘do everything right’ and still be assaulted.
2/4
5) The strategies typically focus on potential assaults on women by unknown men and in public places, whereas most assaults are by men known to the victim (boyfriends, husbands, male acquaintances, etc.) and in familiar locations. 3/4
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