Elle Beau ❇︎
3 min readOct 25, 2022

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Sexual violence IS violence - and yes, most women have experienced that -more than once. Most men have experienced no violence of any sort. The men you know who fit into the demographics that I’ve already stipulated to aren’t representative of the larger dynamic. The majority of men in America are hetero White men. They don’t all live in urban environments, they aren’t all being pursued by the police and they aren’t all under age 25. Those men experience little or no violence — ever.

I've already stipulated to the child abuse situation more than once but since you seem to need it explained to you, here goes. In our culture, overwhelmingly women take care of children. Men spend very little time with them, on average.

"Most fathers in the US are in direct contact with their babies for under an hour per day although they often try to pack that hour full of excitement and entertainment to compensate. Babies do bond with their fathers, even if the time spent together each day is comparatively brief. Clearly, some fathers would prefer to spend more time with their children, particularly their very young children, but corporate America still operates as if it is the 1950s. It’s still widely assumed that if a couple has children, the woman will have primary responsibility for their care."

"I don’t think the statistics show that mothers are more evil and more prone to abuse children than fathers. I think the statistics show that mothers are more likely to be in a situation where they will be poor and under stress."

“Child mortality and poverty strongly correlated but, unexpectedly, child-abuse-related deaths did not. Child homicide assailants are extremely rare, but three distinct within-family assailant categories can be identified: mentally ill parents, mothers with a child on the Child Protection Register and men with previous convictions for violence. Mentally ill parents were the most frequent assailants, but violent men killed over five times the rate of mentally ill parents. The juxtaposed results indicate that the assailants’ problems are essentially psycho-criminological, especially violence, rather than socio-economic, although poverty worsens most situations.”

In 2020 248,335 children were abused by women, and 225,020 were abused by men - a difference of only 23,315. Given the fact that women spend a lot more time with children than men do, and many of these cases are taking place in single mother households, you'd think the numbers would be a lot higher than they are. In other words - your insistence that this somehow is important in making a case that women have not been marginalized, and oppressed in this culture is erroneous. It demonstrates for the most part that we are a violent culture (patriarchy is a dominance based hierarchy) and that people who have been the victims of abuse are likely to pass that along to the next generation.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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