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Originally Posted by Angela  That may be true, yossarian, but it would be an indirect solution -- manipulating people's behavior. More direct, and more responsible, would be if all people stood up tomorrow and declared, "We will NOT perpetrate violence! We refuse!" or even more effective: "We WILL generate freedom! We insist!"
It seems to me that the author is doing a form of that. He's a freedom generator. |
Saying "we must end violence against women and girls" implies that violence against men is acceptable. Violence against men is far more common than violence against women. Probably something like 10,000X more prevalent.
If you refuse to enact violence while still encouraging others to be violent, you aren't truly non-violent.
Dick Cheney doesn't actually kill Iraqis but he does everything in his power to get other people to do so.
Anyway I just wanted to bring some balance to this thread. When people say, "We must end violence against women!" I want to pipe in and say, "and men!!!" with many exclamation marks. Men suffer at the hands of violence far more than women do.