“No safe haven” (March 16) backed up a discussion of domestic violence towards women with research findings, statistics-filled reports describing how many women experience violence, how women respond to and report violence, where and when women experience violence, who women go to for help and so on, centring on women as victims.
But what’s not being said?
What about the aggressors?
For example, how many men in New Zealand are being violent towards women? What’s that ratio? I’m curious.
Julie Bytheway (Richmond)
The statistics given in the article on domestic violence and abuse are truly horrendous and shameful. I can’t help thinking that if this was happening to men it would be considered an emergency and there would be demands for action.
Men bear responsibility for domestic abuse. The majority of men are not abusive, but clearly there are a lot more than most might think. A lot of men think “it’s not me” so not my problem. We live in a misogynistic society. This was amplified when Jacinda Ardern received such disgusting vitriol while she was prime minister. Never would that be directed at a man in power. The
