It’s not just historically white countries that fall prey to the lure of exceptionalism. It’s a very human condition, the feeling that you and your people are special.
I read this thread in the knowledge that New Zealand has the highest rate of domestic violence in the developed
I read this thread in the knowledge that New Zealand has the highest rate of domestic violence in the developed
https://twitter.com/nzwelshdragon/status/1639833441255723009
world.
1 in 3 women experience intimate partner harm. 1 in 2 for psychological abuse. 1 in 8 men report being victims of family violence. Physical or sexual abuse affects 58% of Māori women over their lifetime - that’s 1 in 2. Add in other forms of violence and that rises to 80%.
1 in 3 women experience intimate partner harm. 1 in 2 for psychological abuse. 1 in 8 men report being victims of family violence. Physical or sexual abuse affects 58% of Māori women over their lifetime - that’s 1 in 2. Add in other forms of violence and that rises to 80%.
Does that sound like the Promised Land to you?
Does that sound like a people with the secret to peace, love and happiness?
In Wales, we’re also not immune to the self-soothing lie that we can be the exception.
We see it in @WelshGovernment’s #LGBTQActionPlan which purports to
Does that sound like a people with the secret to peace, love and happiness?
In Wales, we’re also not immune to the self-soothing lie that we can be the exception.
We see it in @WelshGovernment’s #LGBTQActionPlan which purports to
make Wales the safest, most accepting place to be LGBTQ++
without acknowledging there’s a tension between sexuality and gender; a clash between trans demands and women’s established sex based rights; an imposition on lesbians in particular; a disturbing correlation between men
without acknowledging there’s a tension between sexuality and gender; a clash between trans demands and women’s established sex based rights; an imposition on lesbians in particular; a disturbing correlation between men
who identify as trans and men who commit sex crimes; that encouraging children to disassociate from their bodies is abusive and wrongheaded; and that, if you don’t define the Q++, you end up doing all sorts of crazy like decriminalising bestiality (as Spain did last month).
YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL.
WE ARE NOT SPECIAL.
When you tell people they’re the light and others are the darkness,
you encourage the mob mentality that leads a nation of domestic abusers to make a single visiting woman fear for her life.
You turn your people into abusers.
WE ARE NOT SPECIAL.
When you tell people they’re the light and others are the darkness,
you encourage the mob mentality that leads a nation of domestic abusers to make a single visiting woman fear for her life.
You turn your people into abusers.
So do the work.
Engage with the issues. Listen to arguments. Make your own.
You are not special. We all have things to learn and things to let go of. No one nation, no one people, no one person has all the answers.
#LetWomenSpeak
#LetWomenSpeakAuckland
#LetWomenSpeakGlobal
Engage with the issues. Listen to arguments. Make your own.
You are not special. We all have things to learn and things to let go of. No one nation, no one people, no one person has all the answers.
#LetWomenSpeak
#LetWomenSpeakAuckland
#LetWomenSpeakGlobal
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