The amount of victim blaming on social media is shocking and depressing. I just read responses to a police post where a man and woman who were former partners have died and they stated that whilst they are conducting a full investigation they firmly believe the man harmed his ex and then himself. The comments are full of people, mostly women, commenting about how women can be violent to men too and how do we know she didn’t start it. Are people so in denial about the significant issue of male violence that they will convince themselves that the victim was somehow the instigator to convince themselves it would never happen to them?
See, I get the opposite. There was a recent case in my area where a woman was found dead at property and the police immediately arrested the partner on suspicion of murder. Que dozens of posts by women going on about domestic violence, "name and shame", blah, blah, blah. Anyway, three months past and then the police slipped out a post saying that after a toxicology report they're ruling the death as unsuspicious and cleared the fella. Poor bloke had that hanging over his head three months and didn't get even a bit of sympathy while people trashed him.
There's been a fair few local cases where the police have jumped the gun and immediately blarted out male on women violence and then after a lengthy wait decided it was not the case. One poor fella even killed himself while on remand. I think it's because the police are
tit scared after the Everard thing that they rush to judgement incase they get accused of being misogynistic.
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