On average at least 1 every 4 days
Karen Ingala Smith, who is an expert in the field, reminds Jo Swinton of a couple of things:
I am pig sick of people who have not run refuges (and probably spent little if any time in them) saying that allowing men in to women’s refuges is a matter of individual risk assessments. No. No it isn’t.
What are women’s refuges refuges from? Not from grasshoppers or missionaries or loud music.
As for @joswinson saying that abuse in lesbian relns is same as men’s violence against intimate partners, how dare you?
How many women are killed by female partners/exes? Hardly bloody any.
How many women in UK are killed by male partners/exes? On average at least 1 every 4 days.
Ok but women engage in the violence of talking back, which if you think about it is really the worst violence of all.
Ok but women engage in the violence of talking back to men, which if you think about it is really the worst violence of all.
FTFY
Heh, well yes, that’s what I meant, but the whole thing is from the entitled male pov which for some reason Jo Swinson has adopted, so the ‘to men’ part was assumed.
I don’t know, I could use a refuge from missionaries. But I don’t need it as badly as an abused woman needs a woman’s shelter, because I can close my door against the missionaries. A husband/boyfriend with a temper and a weapon is much more difficult to avoid. Nearly impossible for many women. The refuges may be their last hope, and if men are allowed in there, even claiming to be women, the refuge is gone.