the hypnotoad
Premiership Player
- Mar 7, 2021
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Fourty Four.
male violence against partners/families is the deadly plague this country (not just this country, obviously) seems incapable of confronting ... even now, after all these years of horrifying headline news stories and blood-chilling statistics ...
it was a shamefully "open" secret 50, 100 years ago ...
it was an acknowledged issue through basic police/legal figures 20, 30 years ago ...
it's been the focus of media and political campaigns, supposed education programs ...
yet still the stories, the victims, the statistics keep coming ...
i'm a 59-year-old white male, lived a generally pretty lucky, arguably even privileged existence in this country ... and i don't get it, i cannot comprehend the hateful seething urge towards violence, that visceral power/possession thing ... geez, i try not to get too emotional over most things but this ... just ...