Are these valid reasons for preventing men from joining a protest against violence against women...?
1/ Its held on International Women's Day
2/ Women and children may be afraid of men
3/ Women may feel they should defer to men.
But men - give money!
by 
doodlebug_jim
ANSWERS: 8
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These are the reasons given by the organisers of this march protesting domesitic violence against women http://millionwomenrise.com/millionwomenrise_womenonly.html Why aren't men allowed to support this march, except by donation!?
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Honestly I have no respect for people like this, these are the same people who ignore mountains of research (such as that around half of all domestic violence is actually committed by women). These are the people that find it appropriate to force a mother to choose to either come to a shelter and leave her son if he's above 13 to social services (no joke, if your over 13 and male your often not welcome in DV shelters) or go back to a bad domestic situation at home. All this does is divide genders even more, it's a way of saying "all men are wife beaters" without actually saying it, and it makes me sick.
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No, I do not think that it is valid. Domestic Violence is a social issue that affects everyone. I find this very disturbing. The only reason I could possibly think of to do something like this is as a strategic move to make a showing of how many women and children there are. Still, I don't think that would offset the dismissal of support from men.
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I don't think they are valid reasons. Domestic violence effects everyone, not just women. I think that its great that they are protesting it; but EVERYONE needs to be vocal about it. The women organizing it shouldn't exclude the opposite sex for it.
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Of course mean should be allowed to protest the rights of women and they should be taken into consideration for their support, not just their money. What are women trying to achieve in the end? The cooperation of men, because without that, it will inevitably go no where. I think mean should be allowed to show support in any way...just as women once desired the right to be considered a "person" and have an equal ground to men. Don't discriminate men, just as we'd hope men won't discriminate our gender. And for people who think it is ridiculous to fight against domestic violence since it means abandoning your children, would you rather have your mother live in a home where she was suffering to a point of insanity? I don't think so, because in that case, you're SELFISH, and you wouldn't be worth suffering for. Don't expect to understand what it's like to live in an abusive home if you haven't gone through it already, because once you have, you understand the pain and you don't question why you were left behind, because you would do it too if you could, no matter how much you try to deny it.
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I think they are all valid reasons - especially since some women might have been victims of domestic violence themselves. However, I do think that men should be allowed to protest. But maybe in their own separate march? I know that Reclaim the Night marches have 2 sections - one for women who want to march on their own (which might include abused women are victims of sexual assault) and one for men and women to march together. Seems like a fair compromise to me!
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There are no valid reasons to pit men against women, which is what that would do. In fact, there really shouldn't be a protest over violence "just" against women; it should be a protest against domestic violence, period. All domestic violence (woman on man or man on woman) is wrong, whether an injury occurs or not. The facts show that although women are more often and more seriously injured they perpetrate violence just as often as men. All domestic violence should end.
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No, I would suggest people steer clear of extremely anti-male groups like that one. There are many other organizations that help women without claiming that all males are violent abusers.
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