Why did you bother doing this ? "four in 10 Australians mistrust women’s reports of sexual violence" I wonder why! just look who they gave the 2021 Australian of the Year award to? A woman who carried on a relationship with her maths teacher for SIX MONTHS, then turns around and calls it rape! In the SMH she said "and spent the next six months being raped by him at school nearly every day"" 4 time a week x 6months that's 96 sexual encounters and she went to school early and came home late to provide the opportunity for these encounters! Even met him at a hotel! Gee I wonder why!
Megan Mitchell cannot, as National Children's Commissioner, ever bring herself to describe genital integrity as a human right for male children. She will always wax lyrical about "ensuring children have a voice." One "voice" Megan Mitchell is deaf to is the sound of a male child screaming in agony as he is being genitally mutilated. Unfortunately the act of *Male Genital Mutilation* is done to little boys before they are even aware of themselves as sexual beings. This is ultimately a form of *family violence*. It is *sexual abuse*, *physical abuse* and *emotional abuse* of little boys.
Some paraphrasing: Standards need to be met/established: raising awareness and building capacity are *not* necessarily the same as developing *prevention results* Work at multiple levels of intervention: class and power constraints and dynamics have a strong bearing. Primary prevention differs fundamentally from perpetrator intervention. The rôle of facilitators that are known redeemed perpetrators is too complicated to provide an obvious adjustment (and some are undisclosed perpetrators.)
Q&A excerpt: "I'm regularly contacted by men who actually want to do more... What we need to furnish men and boys with is: a positive agenda that's going to work..." "We can't treat primary prevention as just a watered down perpetrator intervention..."
Dr Salter of UWS starts at 3:49 Q&A at 30:48 Excerpt: 13:37 "...Five key strategies that stakeholders told us were really important around engaging boys and men in the primary prevention project: Negotiating masculinity Recognising disadvantage Framing prevention for boys and men Peer to peer approaches Ensuring accountability..." "What stakeholders told us was that a one-size-fits-all approach to masculinity just doesn't work: talking to men and boys about "real men" or "heroes" ("be the hero!"; "be a real man!") is a really good way of alienating men and boys from just the complexity of our experiences of masculinity; the ambiguities of being a man in a male-dominated society..." "...unpack the complexities of masculinity..."
I'm pleased that someone mentioned the 'elephant in the room ' and that is the physical punishment of children. It's not listed as an example of family violence in any legislation but there is a robust research association between the physical punishment of children and many adverse events, including later intimate partner abuse. You can see the exchange in this video at around 41.46 minutes to 43.14. Why are advocates and organisations avoiding the issue? Is their funding at risk if they draw attention to the issue?
