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While I'm not in love with George Galloway, I have admired his fervent anti war stance and enjoyed the kicking he gave the Senate committee today. I flipping well hope he hasn't done anything wrong, it would just be too, too sad if he had.
Talking of sad, poor little Kylie has breast cancer, so I'll wish her well and stop moaning to Mr McMuffin about my PMS and my strangely solid, yet painful mammaries. Too much information I think.
I've not actually seen one of these posters yet, but aren't they fantastic? Given that (domestic) violence features in about 80% of the cases we work with and the impact on women and children's lives is so damaging, anything that makes a man stop and think has got to be worth it. Just for the record, of course women can be violent to men too. Although the processes and the impact may be similar, I believe the volume to be significantly different and the power imbalances to play a crucial part. Now I've said that, if heavens forfend an actual men's rights type inadvertently comes across this post and feels tempted to tell me what a sexist bitch I am (as they have on other blogs) then please don't, go away, there's no room for your sort here.
mrs mcmuffin on 17 May 2005 @ 06:39 PM ✲ Permalink
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These posters are eveywhere on the tube - and they are really attention grabbing and, hopefully, effective. These slogans work in the same way that some films do - the ones that make you smirk conceitedly at people less fortunate than you, then pull the rug out from under your viewing by displaying some horrific tragedy.
Leading you down a path of safety and then punching you in the gut.
The amount of supposedly intelligent yet bored people that stand on a tube platform staring into space is just a captive audience waiting to, well, be caught. It leads me to wonder about other advertising spaces and whether the stalls of men's gents have posters on the back of the doors, or indeed if there are ones above the urinals. The ad-men caught onto this previously unexplored space in Ladies about 6-7 years ago, using it for vacuous rubbish such as the nearest Bingo Hall or newest alco-pop, to the more worthy causes of helpline numbers for all manner of problems.
Now wouldn't it be a thing if these posters were put on the back of Gents stall doors too. There would be a sobering thought. Maybe the only shit they'd be dumping that night would be down the pan, rather than all over their partners.
Posted by: single cookie | 17 May 2005 21:42:44
Why do women have smaller feet than men ?
So they can stand closer to the sink.
Gerrin and get the dinner done wench...
Snigger KP
Posted by: Fabian Quest | 18 May 2005 06:51:04
I was sorely tempted to get a flippant rights for men comment in here, but after my own flippant post and its response, it's probably best to leave it...
Oh stuff it! I'm much more into the whole idea of ignoring the sex of the victim and just coming out and saying that domestic violence is wrong per se. Obviously there are no statistics, but I'd love to know how many men don't report violence against them from their female partners. I almost certainly wouldn't. There's far too much societal pressure that "real" men just shouldn't allow that to happen.
"One of the reasons I took up Tae Kwan Do was because I used to get beaten up by my younger sister." If I read that sentence, it sounds pathetic, but when I look at myself, skinny and weak and then point out that my sister is very broad-shouldered, muscular, 6'1" and was begged to join the rugby team on her first day at uni because she was so big (oh, she loved that), it doesn't seem so bad to admit to.
Just saying it can happen, that's all, please don't hit me. backs nervously away from the comments area.....
Posted by: actualfactual | 18 May 2005 15:57:12
SC-great idea, but how do you know it's not happening? Have you been frequenting the gents again?
KP-bah!
actualfactual-don't worry, I shan't hit you. As a victim of my own little sister's violence (she thought she could do karate without lessons and that I would be a good sparring partner-I was dim enough to play along and get nosebleeds) I empathise.
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 18 May 2005 18:27:26
