1. So apparently a new law on domestic violence is being considered in Russia. The project is very broad ambigious for now and really does need work, but let's paint it as an emotional gendered issue now shall we! It doesn't matter that all the laws that are supposed to protect people from domestic violence are already in place, and what shoud be happening enforcement of these laws. New laws on the subject would change neither jack nor shit if they are not being enforced. You fucking morons
2. But THINK OF TEH WOMYNZ:
3. Every year, tens of thousands of Russian women and children suffer every possible kind of familial abuse — be it battery, rape or even attempted murder.
4. Yes, and so do men. Women are perfectly capable of abusing their kids and spouse. And some do.
5. According to official Russian government statistics that undoubtedly under-report the situation, a massive 40 percent of all violent crimes are committed within the family. This correlates to 36,000 women being beaten by their partners every day and 26,000 children being assaulted by their parents every year.
6. Where is the stat about men in this? Are you just assuming all of those victims are women and children?
7. Larisa Ponarina, deputy director of the Anna Center, an NGO helping victims of domestic violence, suggests that more than 14,000 women die every year as a result of domestic abuse.
8. And how many men do?
9. “If he beats you, it means he loves you,” as one famous Russian saying has it.
10. First of all, that is not an accurate translation of the saying. The original is not gendered. Second, who says this unironically in this day and age? Idiots, that's who. Russian society in general, at least the central parts, have discarded those ideas decades ago.
11. Look at these stats they show btw:
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13. Notice how it's completely ungendered? That's because if you actually show it split by genders, you'd see that a lot of those victims are men. And we can't have that while painting men as monsters, no-no-no.
14. However, the mere fact that domestic violence remains a criminal offense sends the right message: beating your wife and children is wrong, and for that you will be punished.
15. Beating your husband, however? Totally fine.
16. If a woman decides to leave her abusive husband or report him to the police, often her own relatives will disown her. “They would say that keeping the family together and standing behind the father of her children is more important,” says Anna Center’s Larisa Ponarina.
17. Do you know what happens to a man who leaves his abusive wife? She gets to keep the children, he's forced to pay child support AND it's a social suicide in a lot of cases. But no, only women suffer from this.
18. When a child is being regularly beaten up or sexually assaulted by his father, the mother often covers it up, thinking that there is no need to air the dirty laundry in public
19. Except that women abuse their children pretty much just as often as men do.
20. Get your shit together, people. Domestic violence isn't a gendered problem. Unless you stop treting it like one, you will never actually get to fixing it.