Here is an example of gender myth busting. In recent months there has been a spate of stories in the news in which mostly young women have been seen engaging in brutal acts of violence. Like this story and this story and this story.
While singer Amy Winehouse's ongoing bouts of violence give credance to the idea that we need a campaign to protect men and women from violent women.
But I have said it before and I will say it again, women who do such things are only a very small proportion of the female population. In the same way that men who commit violent acts represent a very small proportion of the the male population. These acts are aberrations but both men and women are capable of violent actions.
In recent years we have had the "stop violence against women" campaign which implied that it is only men who are violent toward women (which Erin Pizzey challenges) , while the recent "one punch can kill" campaign once again urges girls to support blokes who dont fight.
Basically both of these campaigns have missed the point and presented highly discriminatory views of violence in which men are always cast as the instigators and women as victims, which we know to be totally untrue - By GR Klein
A woman has been charged with glassing another woman at a Fortitude Valley nightclub in Brisbane.
Police said the victim received a deep cut to her cheek and lip and was taken to Royal Brisbane Hospital for treatment following the attack with a glass bottle about 11pm (AEST) yesterday.
A 22-year-old woman has been charged with unlawful wounding and is due to appear before Brisbane Magistrates Court tomorrow.
AAP
Girl gang on 'playground' rampage at Bowwral High School
byBruce McDougall, Daily Telegraph, April 11, 2008
FEMALE intruders entered a public secondary school and viciously assaulted a 14-year-old girl on the same day Merrylands High School was attacked this week.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal that the teenage student at Bowral High School, in the Southern Highlands, suffered head and rib injuries after being set upon by three older girls armed with a garbage bin.
The victim's mother Louise Forster said yesterday her daughter Stevie-Lee, a Year 9 student, was forced against a fence, bashed on the head with the garbage bin and punched during the lunchtime attack.
The Bowral revelations emerged as police received numerous reports from schools fearing a repeat of the Merrylands violence.
One parent claimed her son was told more attacks were imminent and that those planning them were buying school uniforms to "blend in".
Detective Inspector Jim Stewart played down the threat, saying reports of escalating tensions between schools was being assessed, but there was no need to panic over "Chinese whispers".
"At this stage we believe there isn't any credible threat," Insp Stewart said.
Mrs Forster said her daughter was treated for bruising to her nose, eyes and body and for lumps on her head.
"Stevie-Lee wants to go back to school but she is too scared because she has heard they plan to come back and finish her off," Mrs Forster said.
"She knew (them) from Year 7 but she doesn't know why she was attacked."
Mrs Forster said she was seeking an apprehended violence order against the assailants, believed to be aged between 15 and 17. One of them had been expelled from the school.
"The three of them have been bragging about it at the railway station, showing off the bruises on their fists," she said.
Goulburn MP Pru Goward, who received a complaint from Stevie-Lee's family, said she was horrified to learn of the "vicious and unprovoked attack by intruders on school grounds".
Ms Goward said the incident should be given the highest priority by the Education and Police Ministers.
Police are investigating the assault.
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