Domestic Violence 911 Calls Are Increasing. Coronavirus Is Likely to Blame.

Domestic violence and abuse is rooted in power and control, and abusers are taking advantage of social distancing to exert new ways of controlling their victims. As reported by Madison Paulie and Julia Lurie for Mother Jones, the pandemic has, for some abusers, opened up entire new avenues of abuse

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/03/domestic-violence-abuse-coronavrius/

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Paliglass · 41-45, F

Yes, that's why I threw mine out when he said he wouldn't isolate with me just before all this kicked off properly, he was happy to leave because he didn't want to isolate and thought he was making some kind of point and still thinks I'm gonna need him lol.

Hopefully the police will remove as many abusers as possible and issue conditions they can't re-enter the homes because of cv19 risk with jail time if they do.

Abusers abuse women and children because it's low risk. Up the risk to "go in the house and it's jail" and it may give some breathing space to their victims.

BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP

@Paliglass the problem is worse though that even that my mom was stuck with my dad for the longest time because she had no source of income to leave and while he didn't hit her except in extreme circumstances in incidents that were very spaced out he had been exceptionally emotionally abusive to both me and her but we both knew we didn't have a good income stream to get away from him.

BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP

@Paliglass [i]Women are often thrust into situations of being financially dependent on their abusers and the Gender Binary makes it more likely because it encourages them to be homemakers.[/i]

Paliglass · 41-45, F

@BetweenKittensandRiots yeah, emotional abuse is just as bad but without physical abuse its difficult to get rid of them.

Paliglass · 41-45, F

@BetweenKittensandRiots yep.

BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP

@Paliglass They say Feminist have encouraged women to leave their husbands quit having children get educated and start careers...

guilty as charged. I prefer them well educated and without kids anyways. And marriage? who needs it?

Paliglass · 41-45, F

@BetweenKittensandRiots I think feminism is about choice and life is about playing whatever cards you're dealt however best you can.

Some women like being homemakers.

BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP

@Paliglass

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson

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hahahahahahahahaha All the more reason to be in support.

Paliglass · 41-45, F

@BetweenKittensandRiots in the UK there were radical feminists who left their male children and husband's and lived in female only communes.

Margret Thatcher destroyed them. They were getting quite powerful and a concern.

She destroyed them by infiltrating them with "flowery feminists"

That's a sad truth for you. Radical feminism was destroyed by a woman.

I think true feminism is choice. Relationships need to be negotiable and not expected norms.

Anyway I'm more upset about Equador at the moment.

BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP

@Paliglass I'm not with the radicals honestly I think some of the women only communities were a bit nutty.
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At least I am somewhat more moderate than them.[/i]