Thursday 28 November 2013

Manup.ie - Sexist or fair?

http://www.manup.ie/

men protect and care for children. With MAN UP, men and women are proudly standing up and declaring zero tolerance on violence against women in Ireland.

To end violence against women we all need to be part of the solution.

We are looking for MAN UP heroes – people like you – to help us expose, challenge and change the face of violence against women.


Cant swing a cat on the Luas without hitting this poster. Man Up is a new initiative to eradicate voilence against women (an issue present all across the stratas of society) but this ad specifically targets men and those who hit women. Statistically the ad is correct, there is a hell of a lot more voilence against women than is the opposting situation by why did this campaign have to focus on just men?

Statistics from Amen (charity involved in fighting abuse against men)
http://www.amen.ie/reports.html

http://www.amen.ie/reports/research_...c_violence.doc


• 15% of women and 6% of men suffer severe domestic abuse
• 29% of women and 26% of men suffer domestic abuse when severe and
minor abuse are combined


In proposing an alternative there should be a campaign to eradicate all forms of domestic voilence that is targetted at all those whom are perpetrators. Shock tactics as used in the eradication of drink driving in Australia is one approach that could be taken. A video with various victims in various states after being beaten up could shock people into thinking. People could be forgiven with this manup campaign that somehow domestic violence was specifically a problem that only applies to male perpetrators who attack female victims....

2 comments:

  1. thank you for this blog. Domestic abuse perpetrated against men is widely ignored, men who are victims are in the same position as women were a generation ago, afraid to speak out and not believed if they do. Interpersonal abuse is the correct phrase and encompasses same sex relationships where abuse also occurs.

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  2. Thanks for the comment budge :) Its a gender wide issue, the whole man up campaign is to say the least forgetting that this is the case.

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