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Empowering Men:
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Minister of Police Avoids
Question
© Peter Zohrab 2014 |
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(Open Letter to the Minister of Police)
Dear Anne Tolley,
On 26 January 2014 I put the following question to the Minister of
Justice, and it was forwarded to you:
"Does the Government have any policy document which recommends
encouraging male victims of female domestic violence to report it
to the Police? The deliberate absence of any such advertisements conspires
to perpetuate the myth that it is mainly men who commit domestic violence."
This was your reply: |
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I fail to see where in your letter you have answered
my question. Advertisements about Domestic Violence have appeared
on television down the years. Initially they followed the Feminist
propaganda line that all Domestic Violence consisted of male violence
against women, and gradually they have adopted a more gender-neutral
line.
However, the sour after-taste of all that anti-male propaganda lingers,
and needs to be countered by advertisements which specifically reassure
men that they will not automatically be treated as perpetrators if they
report female violence to the police. Although I admit that I
turn the sound off when television advertisements start, I am not aware
that any pro-male Domestic Violence advertisements have ever appeared
on New Zealand television.
I realise that the Police are not subject to the Official Information
Act, but I request that you turn your mind to addressing my question,
expecially as the Police support the White
Ribbon campaign and have lower physical standards for female entrants
than for male entrants into the police. The White
Ribbon campaign is notoriously anti-male, although the Police pretend
that it is against all violence, including female violence. The
Police have an anti-male culture and need to take steps to address it,
so that men do not need to see the Police as the Women's Police.
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