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Family Violence includes men too ya know!

Filed under: Domestic Violence,General — Julie @ 1:30 pm Mon 2nd March 2009

A shocking display of discrimination has occurred over male victims of Domestic Violence receiving assistance at court in Brisbane, Australia.

State funding was given to a group to care for victims of domestic violence but instead the group has given the money back saying “We won’t work with male victims.”

“We are not prepared to compromise the integrity of our service by operating under the onerous and inappropriate conditions being imposed by the department,” Ms Spicer said.

I’d say they have already compromised integrity.

“In fact, our constitution doesn’t allow us to work with male victims,” Ms Gaunt said.

Then change the constitution.

“We have told the director-general we have to relinquish the funding because we cannot work with males and the constant interference by the department also has a lot to do with it,” Ms Spicer said.

OMG, the poor babies. They have to follow equality policies and they don’t like it.

“I really don’t know what it means for the service.”

It means someone better can get the contract.

Ms Gaunt said men were not neglected by the service, but referred to other agencies.

You can’t send abused men to anger management classes.

“Our workers are not trained to work with men”

Either your workers are trained in DV or they are not.

Can you imagine how traumatised they would be to put a male in there? It is bureaucracy gone totally insane.”

I have never seen a woman traumatised by the sight of a male. That would be funny. It would also be very frightening to think feminism went this far.

Express Advocate

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