Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.
We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
By all measures men are the more violent gender.
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
We need to do something about the culture of violence.
The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.
I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.