WAG launched a campaign to combat violence against women today.It is challenging men to abandon any "demeaning" attitudes they hold. its main platform is a TV advert showing "abusive" behaviour towards a woman, including being leered at and enduring sexist comments.
A comment from Social Justice Minister Carl Sargeant " while that could seem harmless to men, women can feel threatened."
What a waste of money that would be better spent front line with abused women. Do they seriously think that a video will have any effect on these men who verbally mentally and physically abuse women?
Most would never see the selves as being perpetrators of any abusive at what ever level.
The worst of the breed of abusers would not be watching anyway.
The need for money to roll out abuser help programmes is huge ,the money put there would do much more good and ma even save some lives.
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Is every policy about money?
"As yet another Icarus falls, many would-be politicians will shy away, appalled by the British press acting as the nation's moral Taliban. On resigning, David Laws said: "How much I regret having to leave such vital work, which I feel all my life has prepared me for." How odd that his relished life goal was to cast people out of work. As editor of the Orange Book that staked out new turf for Liberal Democrats as state-shrinking economic neoliberals, he called for a rejection of "soggy socialism" and breaking the NHS into a private insurance system. Laws's faction rejected the heritage of Beveridge and Keynes, the two great Liberal giants.Polly Toynbee in the Guardian today
Not usually my favourite commentator ,she has some interesting thoughts today , worth a read http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/31/david-laws-cuts-agenda
She looks at the social consequences of economic cuts predicated on the ethic of justice not the ethic of care.. There has to be a balance of the two.Imposing one without considering the other has led to the toxic waste of communities that was the legacy of the last Tory government and the Valleys and North of England still bear the scars.
Not usually my favourite commentator ,she has some interesting thoughts today , worth a read http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/31/david-laws-cuts-agenda
She looks at the social consequences of economic cuts predicated on the ethic of justice not the ethic of care.. There has to be a balance of the two.Imposing one without considering the other has led to the toxic waste of communities that was the legacy of the last Tory government and the Valleys and North of England still bear the scars.
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