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Every week in the UK two women die at the hands of a current or former partner.
Over the course of a lifetime one in four women experience some sort of domestic abuse.
Every minute UK police receive a call regarding domestic violence (Keep in mind only half of all incidents are reported at all).
That’s a lot of women. Enough is enough.
Women’s Aid, a UK based national organization that is working to end domestic violence against women and children, has launched a new campaign to help remedy this problem that features a short two-minute film starring critically acclaimed multi-award winning actress Keira Knightley.
The movie – The Cut – shows the star driving home from a film set to her jealous partner who proceeds to beat, punch, kick, and pull her hair as she lies helplessly on the ground.
As the camera pans out, and the man continues to beat Knightley , you see that the location is really an empty film set. The words: “Isn’t it time someone called cut?” appear across the screen.
This short provocative film will be sure to raise eyebrows by viewers. The hope is that it will raise awareness about domestic violence while giving people the impetus to reach into their wallets and donate 2 pounds a month (or preferably more) to help vulnerable women and children who fall victim to their intimate partners every day.
Both Knightley and the producer of the film, Joe Wright who worked with Knightley on Atonement, donated their time to the project. Grey London , an advertising agency that helped in the development and production of the film, also provided their services free of charge.
About the project Knightley said:
“I wanted to take part in this advert for Women’s Aid because while domestic violence exists in every section of society, we rarely hear about it. We may not think we know someone who has experienced domestic violence, but this does not mean that it is not happening. Domestic violence affects one in four women at some point in their lifetime and kills two women every week. Without the services provided by Women’s Aid, many more women could be at risk of being killed, yet without donations the charity may not exist this time next year. Please donate £2 a month to Women’s Aid to help save lives.”
The movie will be shown on TV after 9pm and in cinemas before 15-rated movies starting this week. Be sure to check it out yourself online.
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+ add your ownI feel each and every one around the world need to know just how bad domestic violence truly is. I am a survivor of 15 years of horrible, almost unspeakable, mental, physical, and emotional domestic violence. Even though the media has gotten better about telling facts, we need a more graphic look at what truly goes on in homes all over this world. Most women (or children or men) hide what goes on behind closed doors due to the fact they are embarrassed, they fear for their lives, they feel trapped, they feel they deserve the abuse, and a million other reasons why many don't step forward for help.
This really burns me up to no end. The laws even here in the United States are not near strong enough to stop this nightmare. I was one of the lucky ones. I lived way too many years through this horror, due to all of the reasons most women do... shame, guilt, fear for my life, thinking I deserved it, and all of the emotions that go along with this kind of thing that should never happen in the first place.
Even the law enforcement people are scared when it comes to a call on Domestic Violence. Just lately officers have been killed in answering calls for family violence. Much more needs to be done. We need more shelters. We need more trained law officials that know more about handling these situations. We need much stronger and stiffer laws for those that abuse their family members or others. Women need more ways to get out. It is a complicated situation. It is time to end this me
Jack, you should apologize for using aggressive words in the last sentence of your first comment. It's clearly explained in my first answer to your comment. If you don't apologize, just don't wait for my next post. I don't waste my time with aggressive people.
I'm going to travel abroad, so take your time, I won't answer before May and cannot revise the source you quoted.
And, as I suggest in my first e-mail, you will find biased information because if you are homosexual you will be accused of everything. If statistics show that there are violence in homosexual couples (and the rates are similar, as I have found in every trustable paper I read),then they will say that homosexuals are violent people "by nature", and these news jumps to the first page of the newspapers.
Defending homosexual rights is not trying to convince people that homosexual are better, it's just to say that they are people and must have the same rights that heterosexual people have. I don't expect them to be better, I just want them not to be discriminated, and if you have different standards to qualify people according to their sexual election, then you are discriminating! So, don't expect lesbian or gays to be better, just be fair!
As I haven't found higher rates of DV in homosexual couples on the trustable articles I read, I should say that the statistics you present are biased.
About your book in SAGE:
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@Alejandra I'll need to look over the rep you linked more thoroughly tomorrow, although skimming it the report actually supports my position. If rates are identical, that still doesn't justify the complete lack of coverage. You accused me of homophobia, but how many of the big feminist blogs have you seen cover lesbian dv?
To reiterate, DOJ statistics are based on police reports and arrests. A man who reports his female partner for DV is getting arrested for making the report in most states. Mandatory arrest policies are based on the feminist paradigm, which is a major complaint of gays and lesbians because they are basically stranded. (Donovan, 20).
My apologies for insufficient data on the textbook. (pp.119-120)
Close relationships: a sourcebook
By Clyde Hendrick
Published by SAGE, 2000
AIDV has an impressive sounding title, but they're a private company that shills DV products by intimidation. Any stats they provide are about as credible as those in a typical infomercial.
You can also read an academic article about same sex domestic violence here:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sps/downloads/FPCW/cohsarfinalreport.pdf
The researcher states that the DV rates are similar. I quote this article because Social Sciences articles are revised by comitees of recognized researchers of the same field.
More statistics, Jack (and everybody):
Results from the National Violence Against Women Survey indicate that violence
against women is primarily intimate partner violence: 64.0 percent of the women
who reported being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked since age 18 were
victimized by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, or date.
In comparison, only 16.2 percent of the men who reported being raped and/or
physically assaulted since age 18 were victimized by such a perpetrator. [Tjaden,
P., & Thoennes, N. (July 2000). Full report of the prevalence, incidence, and
consequences of violence against women. (Publication #NCJ83781).
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Available from http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs ]
The Human Factor
85-95% of all domestic violence victims are female.
Over 500,00 women are stalked by an intimate partner each year.
5.3 million women are abused each year.
1,232 women are killed each year by an intimate partner.
Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women.
Women are more likely to be attacked by someone they know rather than by a stranger.
Source:http://www.aidv-usa.com/statistics.htm American Institute of Domestic Violence
There are many entries on the same field and title on Gbooks. You are supposed to let us know the author (anybody with enough money to do it can publish his/her own book!), year of publication, and/or publisher, and then I could discuss the percentages. And, as I have not used offensive words, which are a form of violence, I ask you to respect me and the rest of Care2 members and apologize about the insulting words you used in your last sentence.
@Alejandra Close Relationships:A sourcebook lists 48% for lesbians and 30-40% for gay men. It's on Gbooks, so you can verify my source. 30-40% seems to be the range for most studies of violence among lesbians, so the sample for 48% may be slightly atypical. However, that range is still well above the generally accepted range covering heterosexual women. These are studies based direct collection, not crime statistics so your counterargument has no bearing on the results. The frequent claim is that they actually contact the police at a lower rate.
There is no overwhelming edge in either direction in hetero relationships for occurrence of DV. There is however a huge differential in ratio of arrests, due to laws being written on presumption of guilty genitalia.
However, 75% of physical abuse of children is committed by women. Apparently only the other 25% is worth talking about or protecting.
Stating my original point explicitly: In general unless it adheres to their men evil/women good paradigm, feminists don't give a rat's ass about domestic violence.
ALL MEN WHO YELL AND PUSH OR TOUCH A WOMAN.
DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE CALL A MEN.
WOMEN DESERVE RESPECT ALL HUMAN KIND ARE BORN FROM A WOMEN.
MAX PUNISHMENT AND SPECIAL HELP FOR THIS MEN MUST BE MANDATORY.
ASK FOR GOV HELP!!!!!!! WOMEN YOU ARE NOT ALONE......
What is your source, Jack? Where are your statistics? As soon as a domestic violence discussion emerge, some men appear quoting a case in which a man was abused by his partner (which is obviusly violence too). When gays fight for their rights, somebody mentions cases of homosexual abuse, as if heterosexual abuse were not a major problem...
Anyway, there should be another explanation: women are still educated to be submissive to men, I'm not surprised if most of domestic abuse cases, which are maunly perpretated by men, are not denounced. Women are just performing their gender roles, a role that lesbians have decided not to play
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