Australia: NSW introduces coercive control laws, tougher bail laws from July 1: "the police have been trained to ignore female perpetrators and only target men" claims @mothersofsons via X

garbage_raccoon · 2024-07-02T02:21:35+00:00

I had never heard the term "coercive control" before. Since the penalty for it is up to seven years in prison, I thought it deserved a little research. Luckily, the NSW government has a handy guide. Here are some of the examples they provided:

"belittling someone or making jokes at their expense to harm their self-esteem and dignity"

"using tactics that pressure or punish the other person, for example by withholding affection, giving the ‘silent treatment’ or ignoring them"

"providing a small allowance and strictly monitoring what a person spends"

"texting or calling excessively and demanding the other person reply immediately"

I sincerely hope the law itself isn't this broad...

JJnanajuana · 2024-07-02T04:03:35+00:00

The laws are written in gender neutral terms. But I doubt the training provided is gender neutral.

Especially given that the main organisations in the industry (like ANROWS, (an acronym that literally has 'women's safety ' in it's name.) that support it claim that 'coercive control is a gendered construct. ANROWS even did research into coercive control that only asked female victims about their experiences based on that assumption.

Even the NSW domestic homicide review included in their definition of coercive control that it was, by definition, recognised as a gendered phenomenon. (Which I am confident contributed to them finding that none of the men killed by their female intimate partners were the primary victims of domestic violence prior to their death, even the 3 (or more, going from memory here) that had AVO's protecting them from the women that killed them.)

Still the law is gender neutral, and the police aren't idiots (for the most part.)

And jury's are made of the Australian public that ANROWS surveys say 'see domestic Violence as non-gendered' (ANROWS says wrongly) more and more every year.

I'm hoping that this is another policy that gets put in place only to reveal that there are many more female abusers than were recognised.

Just like mandatory arrest laws, and then primary perpetrator laws.

I'm not counting on it being enforced evenly, but it won't take much to be an improvement on "we didn't even ask about fale perpetrators, that's not a thing."

Angryasfk · 2024-07-02T05:15:43+00:00

Feminists push for this. They clearly do not expect it to be applied to women since they without fail represent it as something that’s done to women, and not by them! Rosie Batty for one represents it as something men do to women (turns out she got this and was not physically assaulted herself as she used to make out).

It sounds like mandatory arrest for DV. Feminists just assume that women won’t be arrested for it, and were shocked when they were. However I dare say the “direction” that been given to the police will definitely “help” the to understand that coercive control can “only” be committed by a man in “patriarchal society”.

SarcasticallyCandour · 2024-07-02T02:48:27+00:00

UK has these coercive control laws already.

Significant numbers of women charged with DA are charged under these laws.

Its illegal to apply a law differently, so a male victim should bright to a court. We know these laws are not enforced properly so mens orgs need to monitor this.

Current_Finding_4066 · 2024-07-02T09:16:05+00:00

Sad, very sad, and when women perps get away, lack of charged and incarcerated women will be used to justify even worse crackdown on men.

stent00 · 2024-07-02T19:08:09+00:00

I've been guilty of giving the silent treatment to an ex gf as she took a tantrum on me for not being available 24 hours a day to text and I wasn't going to respond to childish behavior... guess I'm a bad boy. Lol lock me up yo

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