Statistic of the Day: 1 in 5 American men admit to domestic violence

[KitSileya]

19. I posted this in GD.

Dunno how it'll go down, but I figure, I'd rather go out in a blaze.

There is something inherently wrong with our culture and the way men are raised in it which shows when these numbers are reported. Men aren't in themselves incapable of learning that women are human beings and deserving of the same respect they give other men. They are not incapable of learning to control their reactions - even these abusers do that, they carefully control when and on whom they use violence. Ray Rice has never hit his boss the way he hit his fiance. He didn't hit her on a casino floor or at a party, he waited until they were alone in an elevator. That means he knows how to not hit.

I refuse to think so little of men that I don't ask them to change our culture right alongside us. They are as capable of doing so as women, as feminists. To say that men are unable to control themselves, or unable to give up their privilege to make the world equal, now that is true misandry.