Many people are bewildered at the absence of intervention when it comes to professional sports such as NHL hockey, in which players frequently violently bash each other in the head.
Serious concussions and brain damage are often the result.
However, why do so many people fail to acknowledge that such barbaric conduct is only one of many such ugly indicators of how society tolerates violence against males?
The proof is in the proverbial pudding, be it a female Hollywood-movie character gratuitously slamming her knee into her man’s groin, at which the movie audience breaks out into laughter as the guy keels over in agony, or a man punching another man senseless with almost-bare-knuckled “ultimate fighting” as the audience cheers on or screams in some twisted euphoria.
As society tolerates – even celebrates – violence against males, there will be undesirable repercussions that few academics are willing to acknowledge: Violence against females.
I find it folly for society to insist on the total abolition of occurrences of violence against women while that same society intently resists eliminating all violence in which boys/men are the victims.
Societal conduct simply does not work that way.
Frank G. Sterle, Jr.
White Rock