WE PRINT BELOW IN BLUE A COPY OF A REPORT ABOUT THE ALLEGED "SURVEY" WITH OUR COMMENTS IN RED.
Almost two thirds of students in Wales know women whose partners or boyfriends have hit them, a survey suggests.
Please notice the word "suggests". This is a frank admission that the "survey" doesn't PROVE a thing. The writer hopes you won't notice this.
Four out of 10 know women who have been coerced or pressured into sex by their partners, the poll of 733 students for the NUS and Amnesty International says.
733 "students" but were they ALL FEMALE STUDENTS? The report doesn't say, but if they were then this makes the "survey" even more meaningless.
The "four out of ten" could ALL KNOW THE SAME WOMEN who were pressured into sex. There might only be a small number of them.
We could equally well declare "ALL Welsh Assembly Members know someone who has not been honest about political donations." People would ask: "Who are ALL these people?" But it merely means that ALL Assembly Members know Peter Hain.
Incidentally, a new report "Gendering, Courtship and Pay Equality", written by Dr Rory Ridley-Duff and published by the Faculty of Organisation and Management says:
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In Ridley-Duff (2007), there is a brief review of research on the propensity of men and women to pursue each other for sex. Surprisingly, it has been found that 94% of men and 98% of women report “unwanted sexual attention”; 63% of men and 46% of women report “unwanted sexual intercourse”
It seems that things are not as one-sided as Amnesty International would have us believe!! Women are EQUALLY to blame.
And a third said a woman was at least partly responsible for being raped or sexually assaulted if they were drunk.
If MEN are supposed to be responsible for their actions when they are drunk, surely a woman should be too.
Amnesty International called for the Welsh Assembly Government to run a violence prevention campaign.
A very laudable suggestion provided it applies equally to men and women as required by UK legislation.
The Welsh arm of the human rights pressure group said there was a shocking level of tolerance of sexual violence among students, similar to that of the wider population.
Home Office Report 191 stated that 4.2% of men and 4.2% of women ARE violent to each other. Can we expect students to be any different?
Programme Director for Amnesty International Wales Cathy Owens said: "If we are going to break the cycle of violence that sees a third of all women in Wales suffering from some sort of violence, then we need to start by challenging attitudes towards violence against women amongst students and the population at large.
Woops! Cathy Owen's slip is showing here. Why this sudden "Women-only" interest? Cathy should read Report 191 mentioned above, and the recent Ridley-Duff research. She can then emerge into the twenty-first century.
"The Welsh Assembly Government should consider a comprehensive campaign aimed at preventing violence - making it far less acceptable on our campuses and in our communities."
This is repetition but, as stated above, we agree as long as men and women are treated equally.
These results confirm not only that domestic abuse amongst students occurs far too often but that students don't know where to turn.
Jo Roberts
Women's Office for NUS Wales
The poll also showed that students were unsure where to turn for advice about domestic violence.
Some 46% of those polled said they felt they had enough information and support to deal with abuse.
Just under half (47%) said they would urge the victim to tell a counsellor or a tutor.
Presumably students are able to read. Therefore:
Female students should know that they have about 500 refuges to run to for protection.
Male students should know they have only 5 refuges and one of those is only for gay men.
Female students know that they have a "Women's Officer" in their universiity who will help them and give advice.
Male students know that they do not have a "Men's Officer" in their university. Obviously then it's only male students who have "nowhere to turn".
And 39% would encourage the woman to report it to the police, but some 22% said they would not and a further 22% said they were not sure.
Here we go again with the "Women-only" approach! Why aren't MEN encouraged to report such incidents against them?
More than two thirds (70%) said there should be services on campus to help students who have suffered from violence.
Jo Roberts, women's officer for the National Union of Students Wales, which helped run the survey at 10 Welsh universities, said she had been calling for better support services for students who had suffered domestic violence.
As "Women's Officer" Jo should know that help IS available - but only for WOMEN. Could she possibly be suggesting then that MEN should be helped too? If so, this is a step forward.
"These results confirm not only that domestic abuse amongst students occurs far too often but that students don't know where to turn when it happens," she said.
Welsh Assembly member Nerys Evans said she was disappointed at the results of the survey.
We absolutely AGREE with Nerys Evans. A one-sided treatment of domestic abuse is always disappointing as so many men will agree.
She added: "With a committee inquiry into how the assembly government is combating domestic abuse, now is the time to look again at how much we are investing in both preventing abuse and helping victims."
LOOK AGAIN INDEED!!! At the moment the Welsh Assembly is investing millions of pounds in trying to prevent abuse against women, and NOTHING in trying to prevent abuse against men.
DO PLEASE HAVE ANOTHER LOOK - SOON!