È necessaria un’azione urgente per fermare la violenza contro le donne, rileva il rapporto

The headline was changed to remove that it was about the Sarah Everard Report (Angiolini Inquiry) from the looks of the title HTML element. The fact that a quater of Police Forces haven’t done the bare minimum in updating how sex offenses are handled seems pretty damming.

The recommendation of new laws for “Good samaritans” sounds like a good idea on paper, I am curious as to what the legislation might look like around this.

>Other recommendations include better street lighting, improvements to information about positive masculinity for men and boys and targeted consistent public messaging about how to report crimes such as indecent exposure

The other recommendations seem to be pretty solid. Where I used to live I had to walk up a long hill home fromt he town to my village that was semi-rural, and as an overweight man it felt terrifying walking past the wooded sections. The councils aroudn the time turned the street lights off to save money, and in the winter it was almost pitch black.

Female 30s, native Welsh and from the UK, lived here 90% of my life and went to schools here etc. 

Most of my relatives both female and male have happily emigrated away over the last 20 years, and now I’m seriously thinking of doing the same, both for economic/employment reasons, and also because of public spaces becoming increasingly unsafe/men who are in this country acting like animals. 

Every other story I hear from girlfriends or local women in person as well as on these subs is about violence or oppression against us. And I don’t believe the government or the NHS or Scotland Yard is on our side, if ever they were. It’s sad, I love this island and never imagined it would come to this, but here we are.

Unfortunately, I do lack the skills, training and income level to just up sticks and go anywhere, I wouldn’t be let into some higher index countries or be allowed to stay more than a few years on visa (thanks for fucking nothing, Brexiteers) My relatives wouldn’t give me a reference nor let me crash with them to get started somewhere, either, they’re pretty awful and classist people who treat me and my parents like servile dirt.

Plus, at the moment I assist my mother with increasing care needs of her mother/my grandmother who is disabled, deaf and getting on for 90, and since no one else in the family is around or helps out, I don’t feel able to abandon her with this burden.

Of course, I know my life is my responsibility both selfishly and unselfishly, and I ought to have planned better and earlier to build my own independent adult career, home, family etc. Still, sometimes I do feel a bit cheated, like no one sat me down and warned me all this could happen or talked through a contingency. The Millennial generation have been let down in this regard, as much as all British women of all ages & backgrounds have been.

In fairness to me and for what little it’s worth, I was held back significantly in life by medical malpractice in my teens. I basically lost my young adulthood to it. And I have Asperger’s too, though pretty high functioning, so it’s not like I can just charm or schmooze my way into a better life the way others can, either. 

Yet I realise at this point I just have to scrape together what pieces of a life I have left and get on with it. Nothing else to be done, and moaning won’t change anything. So how can I make an escape possible? And where to?

No, urgent action is required to stop violence against *anyone*.

I can never understand this obsession with violence against women when in actual fact men are far more likely to be the victim of violent assault (or murdered) than women.

These sorts of headlines are deliberately calculated to cause enragement in my view.

Barring some sort of mind control chip installed in everyone, there is no “stop violence against women”.

We can reduce it, but people have to be realistic. You will never be able to walk around at night in every neighbourhood in 100% safety.