The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Please be warned that there is a sting in the tail of this post.
Were you aware that today has been declared The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women?
A victim of gender violence, Aaisha is unaware of the 16 days every year marked to condemn violence against women. “What is the point of celebrating such days,” she asks. “Observing such days might help get certain people’s attention but I don’t know how it can serve those who really are the victims of violence,” she added.
This is not the situation of a young western woman dressing lasciviously and walking into a dangerous situation with a lot of drunken ASBOs with porn on the brain and no constraints on their behaviour, the yob culture and then she still expects to be somehow safe in this PC society which has removed from women all traditional protection and then she is absolutely shocked and horrified when she’s not protected. How could she be? By appealing to their gentlemanliness? Or did she think she could tame the bad boy in them by dint of her own charm?
This is not one of those situations.
This is not the situation of a woman nagging, nagging, nagging, nagging, nagging, nagging, nagging, nagging, trying to change the bad boy into being a good boy to her but a bad boy to everyone else. When will women finally realize that they can’t change a man into the image of what they want men to be? They’ve tried the SNAGs, they’ve tried the Metrosexuals. What comes next?
This is not one of those situations.
This is not the situation of western women refusing to take even 0.001% of the blame for the violence they encounter and the utter disrespect in so much of the western male attitude towards women, this stemming from many factors – porn and the destructiveness and hypocrisy of feminism being two of them.
This is not one of those situations.
No, this is a situation of true violence, where the wife is beaten as a matter of course to keep her on the straight and narrow and where men can have harems but women are stoned for having multiple partners.
This is where the woman grows up with no protection and has no laws to help her. This is the world of Bangladesh, India, the whole of the Arab world, South-East Asia and in fact all over the world.
Will it be stopped by an International Day? Well, let’s say it doesn’t hurt to have one but as Aaisha said above – it’s not particularly effective for her personally.
Look, the only real way is to have a moral and spiritual code deeply ingrained in the society which frowns on any violence against a woman and where that man is seen as a cad by other men. The greatest curb on a man’s activities is to know other men don’t respect him and I’m sorry to say this but the more women go on about it, the less men listen – those sorts of men who are violent, I mean.
There was such a code – the Judaeo-Christian code and let’s be more specific – the Christian code. It certainly didn’t stop violence and there was a lot inherent in the secular social system but Christianity is most insistent that women are treated well, revered and respected, as well as children and parents.
We’ve chosen to throw all that out for a society of child sex, drugs and violence and here is the result. Look around you – well done humanists and atheists - enjoy your gory bed.
Meanwhile, women are being badly mistreated and under the old values, where men were men and women were ladies, such a thing is intolerable. It has to stop.
How?
Well, firstly, get back to the Christian heritage we had even three decades ago. Forget all this humanistic claptrap about going our own way and making a brave new world – let’s get back to the Sermon on the Mount and then we can afford our girls and women protection.
That’s the first step because there is no other code in existence which will protect women.
Second – take back education, roll back all the Marxism in the rewritten texts, pull out old hidden copies of PC proscribed texts which were for the bonfire if the PCists had found them – put these back on the shelves and clear the feminist tomes away into the back room.
Now we’re moving along.
Bring back the traditional subjects and get education back to the liberal arts tradition [and this does not mean the hijacked usage of the term in America]. Reintroduce the concept of excellence and the need to study for it.
Cut tuition fees and put it on our tax bill for now until the whole tax mess is resolved. Each jettisoning of another pointless Labour tax can partly go towards subsidizing these lowered tuition fees and progressively lowering our overall per capita tax.
Start putting proper educators back into teacher training facilities and in the Ministry which oversees education [while it still does]. Instead of teaching children to masturbate, which is the latest inane governmental recommendation, throw these dead-heads out who suggest these things and get some traditional educators back in schools.
Forget all this mentoring rubbish and concentrate on parent support policies, with the emphasis on family resolution of matters involving children.
Keep the tolerance of gays in there because they have a right to do what they do, free from gay-bashing but get rid of this gay-marriage abomination straight away.
That’s enough to be going on with. The result of just these measures will be enough, within one generation, to see most of the ills disappear.
It’s never going to alter though while we insist on living with a false paradigm and no moral code.
Dizzy’s take is even more to the point. And from Ross.
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One of the marks of a civilised society is how it looks after those who are less well able to take care of themselves. Labour have failed us all by attempting to use the state to take over the role of the church. That we allowed it to happen shames us all.
Ironic that during this, the raper of a 13-year old female (with drugs) was granted bail eh?
On the edge of where you skate, just almost out of sight is the idea of women somehow making a man “commit a fault despite themselves”.
Poor helpless men with no restraint, no self control, self admitted animals it almost sounds like.
It is an excuse. There are some places where wet hair on show is considered provocation enough.
Honestly that way of thinking does not wash, no matter how diluted. It is self serving, weak, wrong.
Whatever religion or culture it is a cop out. A fault despite themselves? More like some look for any excuse for the chance to justify doing something they know to be wrong. And because they have the power they make the rules to suit themselves.
As for the politics that make helpless dependants of us all. Well that seems like a separate subject almost. Where is the self reliance the lifting by their own bootstraps, desire for real responsible liberty that used to be part of western enlightened socialism?
And despite all the words, Moggs, where is even one woman taking just the teensiest bit of responsibility herself?
Not one woman on the planet.
James, Don’t give me that “where is even one woman taking just the teeniest bit of responsibility herself” bull.
You are generalising about something you only know one side of the equation of. I expect you see what you consider female irresponsibility but miss much of what you might see as responsible because it is often quietly done.
I advocate women learn to physically defend themselves. even tho I know, sometimes that just gets you hurt because the fact is that the average guy is physically stronger than the agerage girl if he gets his hand on you. But I figure it’s a bit like the Scott’s motto “Nemo me impune lacessit”.
The thing is tho it shouldn’t have to be like that. Women should not have to worry about guys physically preying on them. If he can talk his way into her panties then that is another thing.
Yes If anyone gets themselves so drunk they don’t know what they are doing it is not a good idea, not wise, tho sometimes triples get ‘administered’ and a girl gets caught out despite herself. To me that is close to drugging.
But take the sex out of it for a moment. If you didn’t lock your back door and you got burgled how would you look at it? Still think you deserved it? Would you agree you tempted the poor burglar beyond measure? Maybe think he should be let off and you punished? Feel you asked for it? You probably wanted to get burgled really didn’t you? Begging for it wanting to get the insurance money for a new TV.. you know you did.
I guess probably not, because while it is not wise in a world full of burglars to leave a door open they are still in the wrong. It ought to be possible to leave your door open without having your TV stolen.
And you know those people ought not to be burglars at all because it is wrong. It hurts people for years after that they might loose a ring they inherited from a loved Gran or something. Have their home soiled and made unclean and unsafe.
Decent people don’t do that. It takes more to tempt decent people beyond reason, much more.
James, Don’t give me that “where is even one woman taking just the teeniest bit of responsibility herself” bull.
My case rests.
Women, most particularly feminists, can’t accept the slightest responsibility, can they? The proof is in your reply. Men go into situations after assess the risks. Women go in expecting they have the right to be safe. That’s the difference.
We’re just different genders, that’s all – nothing to be upset about.
Your “my case rests” conclusion does not follow from that and you know it.
I was saying you probably don’t even see responsible, but leaving that aside women should not have to take all the responsibility for a man not being able to control his appetites.
…and yes I know if he won’t then it is our problem. That’s why I think a responsible girl learns to defend herself and take other measures… and worry about the police prosecuting her after.
But if you are not going to take my arguments seriously then have fun on your own.
Moggs, you just can’t accept, can you, that it takes two to tango. Actually, this is getting closer to it:
“That’s why I think a responsible girl learns to defend herself and take other measures.”
That’s right – and one of those measures is to not be in that situation in the first place. This is a bit different to women in Muslim nations who have nowhere to run. Our women at least have that choice in most cases.
Nothing in your article on abuse of MEN by women…
Higham you’re on a hiding to nothing with this one. The modern western woman is, generally, an unattractive thing that believes it can do precisely what it will, when it will, without regard to the consequences, while men never can (a view articulated by an ‘intelligent’ young women at the time of Austin Donlen’s trial for a rape that was nothing more than the invention of his alleged victim). Whatever happens women are never responsible (as they never were, which is why they were never, hitherto, allowed very many rights) and men are always bastards.
One thing few female minds seem to be able to grasp is that rights bring with them responsibilities, and those who plead that they cannot be held responsible for their actions give up their ‘rights’.
We’ll have ‘equality’ when women learn to take it like a man, and there’s a little more to that than being paid the same for doing less work, driving aggressively and wearing lipstick with battledress.
Misogyny is alive and well, I see.
Men are no longer men,even men who think they are men.
Ah, the emotional reaction and the name calling. William Gruff said, “One thing few female minds seem to be able to grasp is that rights bring with them responsibilities.”
Now Uber – does your reply go to reinforce that statement or does it refute it? Post coming up.
Sorry, Uber but actually, I just ran out of interest on it. Couldn’t be a—ed writing it.
Cangreats on your devastating and cogent style of argument guys.
You ignore the points I make and then shout “your wrong cos your a woman naa naa!”
Convinced me, how can I argue with that?
This discussion transferred to the Violence post, that’s all, Moggs. It is quite alive and well there.