Ugandan MP told to apologise to victims of domestic violence

[ethan]

A Ugandan MP has been told to apologise to victims of domestic violence after saying men should "beat" their wives.

Onesimus Twinamasiko said on Ugandan television channel NTV "as a man, you need to discipline your wife.

With a name like Onesimus Twinamasiko I wonder if his other half might include himself?

 

[Randomface74]

Meh if it was the other way round nobody would care.
The whole "violence against women" thing should just be "violence" full stop.

 

[VincentHanna]

Meh if it was the other way round nobody would care.
The whole "violence against women" thing should just be "violence" full stop.

You think if a female MP came out saying they should beat their husbands, nobody would care?

You live in a strange World of male oppression that only seems to exist in your head.

 

[Caracus2k]

You think if a female MP came out saying they should beat their husbands, nobody would care?

You live in a strange World of male oppression that only seems to exist in your head.

Maybe not that blatant here in the UK... but bursting out laughing at the suggestion that MP's should discuss issues that affect men disproportionately as well as those that affect women is allowed to pass without any apparent sanction or official rebuke....

 

[Randomface74]

You think if a female MP came out saying they should beat their husbands, nobody would care?

You live in a strange World of male oppression that only seems to exist in your head.

It exists in reality and you ignore it for some reason. Dunno why you bother replying to me tbh, you know what you're getting.

 

[Caracus2k]

There's definetly a pervasive double standard in the nore influential echelons of Western society when It comes to domestic violence....

I can't imagine the Guardian allowing a columnist to celebrate a man being allowed to challenge his conviction for bludgeoning his wife to death with a hammer on the principle premise that he had discovered that she was unfaithful and that she was allegedly a bit of a control freak....

I would imagine such an article would start with with the premise that such an incident would be another example of our patriarchal system that tacitly condones violence against women.....

Other reporting closer to the time suggests the woman in questions was more than correctly imprisoned for murder and that the attempts to have her conviction Iver tuned are without merit....

During her trial, jurors were told that Challen attacked the retired businessman in August 2010 as he ate lunch at the kitchen table in their former marital home.

She had believed he was cheating and later said: "If I can't have him, no-one can."

Asked why she killed him, Challen told the court: "I don't know. I just didn't think that he wanted to be with me."

The couple had been attempting to patch up their marriage after separating and living apart, but Challen became enraged after discovering the former car dealer had phoned another woman.

She had been living apart from Richard, her husband of 31 years, but she kept a diary of his movements as she became increasingly suspicious he was seeing other women.

On one occasion, she even counted his Viagra tablets to see when they appeared to have been used.

 

[Angilion]

You think if a female MP came out saying they should beat their husbands, nobody would care? [..]

Nobody who mattered, no. A few people would care, but they'd be laughed at and villified. It's socially acceptable for women to abuse men, so why would it be considered wrong? Saying that would improve the MP's career because she'd gain votes from doing so, as long as she dressed it up a bit in terms of controlling the men's behaviour. If she said exactly what Onesimus Twinamasiko said (note that he didn't say that men should beat their wives), she'd be fine.

We've already gone so far down that route that if a woman attacks a man in public the normal reaction from witnesses is to blame the man. Sexist victim-blaming is that commonplace and extreme. So why would expressing approval of that norm cause problems for an MP?

 

[RDM]

It's socially acceptable for women to abuse men, so why would it be considered wrong?

While certainly not taken as seriously as men abusing women I wouldn’t say that it is socially acceptable. Certainly not amongst my social circle!