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I haven't been following this one - is there some suggestion that Rose Batty is using petty arguments to suggest she was NOT a victim in a situation where the other party had a clear mental issue?
Is it (if so) that she does not wish to view herself as a 'victim', since that is a position with no personal power? There is a world of difference between being a victim of a genuine issue and the adoption of the 'victim mentality', which usually means looking for someone to hand you power, which is an impossibility.
I think, also, that the issue raised about Aboriginal DV being THE most prevalent is relevant. In my submission to the Law Reform Commission way back in 1992, I stressed that it was not a proper approach to view ONLY the issues within a clearly identified high violence group - and then extrapolate the findings therein to the WHOLE community. Of course they did exactly that, at the behest of Bob Carr, in order to provide the excuse (in NSW) for police to seize legally held firearms through imposition of a 'regulation' after the regime was established that any complaint, as long as it was in the mind of the complainant, was a valid one requiring court intervention via orders.
I long ago said that Rose Batty, when setting out originally to discuss the issues of FAMILY violence, was waylaid by those with vested interests, who wanted their version of 'male v female ONLY' being violence to hold sway, and was basically told what she could and could not say. In order to keep her spot she had to toe the line.
It appears to me that she was and is unwilling to do that, and now wishes to speak out.
I say let her speak.
Should she have used her own experience? ONLY in the exact same situations, where it was relevant. However, I feel she is an intelligent and thinking person, and can have a solid view on all aspects of family violence, much the same as some contributors here have a good handle on those issues, often through personal experience as well.
To finish up - I've also long stated that while ever the State seeks to impose a regime of power to the women by bullying and force over men - it is only making this entire situation worse, as clearly demonstrated by the rising incidence of women killings. Surely - if the slap-em-about-the -face and bully 'em' approach of the State was going to work - it would have done a far better job than it has, but stoopid is as stoopid does, as they say down in Green Bow. Slapping people about the face and bullying them over ANY complaint is a surefire recipe for retaliation, and ONLY genuine acts of violence should ever have been addressed under this regime, instead of the utterly stupid, ultra-socialist, feminist-promoted approach.
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