"There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable." - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moo

Deracination · 2013-02-17T23:52:17+00:00

I don't understand why statements like this go anywhere beyond "Violence against humans is bad." If you know that, it's trivial to deduce whether or not a particular form of violence is bad. Is violence against women bad? Yes, because they're humans. What about against males? Yes, also humans. What about rape? Yes, that's still violence, so it's bad. Pretty simple concept.

PerniciousOne · 2013-02-18T03:06:23+00:00

Men are not to be seen as human beings. They are disposable, meant to be thrown away when they start acting up.

ThePigman · 2013-02-18T01:47:35+00:00

What a cringing little turd of a man. I guess if anyone wants to assassinate him all they have to do is send a female. As she is about to strike he will, no doubt, yell to his bodyguards "Don't shoot, she's a woman!"

DerpaNerb · 2013-02-18T00:19:48+00:00

Unless that very same person also said the exact same statement about men, the only thing I could possibly conclude is that they are saying that because they view women as no better than helpless children who are completely incapable of doing anything, and therefore need special protection.

2013-02-17T22:46:36+00:00

It succeeds in being 100% accurate and also very, very wrong all at once.

giegerwasright · 2013-02-18T03:04:05+00:00

What if that woman has you in the crosshairs of an AK-47?

scanspeak · 2013-02-18T07:36:41+00:00

The test is to substitute women for whites and see if it still sounds offensive :

"There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against whites is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable."

nonservator · 2013-02-17T22:23:25+00:00

I know it's not helpful, but the first thing I thought was, "Sean Connery still disagrees."

rightsbot · 2013-02-17T22:12:17+00:00

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Arch_AngelleLegBeard · 2013-02-18T07:27:04+00:00

What a terrible statement.

Jero79 · 2013-02-18T08:51:34+00:00

Here's what can also be logically derived from his brave and chivalrous statement There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against men is acceptable, excusable, and tolerable.

You do realize that logic is flawed, right? Lets change the quote to:

"There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against humans is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable."

If we apply your logic to that statement we can derive: There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against animals is acceptable, excusable, and tolerable.

kupfernikel · 2013-02-18T12:45:18+00:00

In the west, yes, there is no more rape culture.

In Africa, South America, Middle East, Asia, with varying degrees, the rape culture is alive and well.

In many countries women are second degree citizen, in many others they are regarded as little more then objects.

In many places, raping your wife is not even considered a crime. Fuck, in Brazil, it was something considered worth of debate untill some years ago!

Ban Ki-Moon was not talking with Swedish, English, American or British people. He was refeering to the gential mutilation in west africa, to the stoning of women for having sex without being married, for the prohibition of women to walk in the streets alone, and many other things that are aimed at women.

Your "logic" is greatly flawed. It means that if I say that violence against children is unaccetable, then I am saying that violence adults its ok?

Or to make it more abstract. By your "logic" if I say "My car is blue" , I am automatically saying that only my car is blue, that nowhere else in the world there are blue cars.

Obviously not. I am stating that my car is blue, and only that.

TiberiusBostwick · 2013-02-18T13:51:33+00:00

Ignoring the violence against everyone aspect for a moment...

No one has cared about what the UN has said before... why would any one start now?

The places that really need to reform their treatment of women would never get behind this kind of thing. So what he says is not only ineffectual, it's untrue.

Super_delicious · 2013-02-18T00:05:33+00:00

Most men are bigger than women. Most of the time women can't put men in the hospital by just using their fists. Most men have that capability and centuries of protecting women from men has led to how we think of women needing protection. It's only in modern society that we have begun to stop thinking that. However the older generation don't think that way and that's why things like this are said.

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