On 30/3/06 5:42 PM, "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've always resented the suggestion that by failing to curb the
> violence of violent males, I'm complicit in it. The same males are
> violent towards the likes of me. They're violent towards anyone they
> can get away with being violent towards. I regard myself as having
> common cause with everyone terrorised by violent males, not
> responsible for doing something about it *on their behalf*.
I'm not sure that Goward is saying that. I think she is saying that denying
the reality of violence towards women is being complicit in it, and that men
have a stake in this question as well as women, for reasons similar to the
ones you say here.
Best
A
Alison Croggon
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