UK TV program about World Cup & domestic violence

[Army Of Me]

Hi all - Last night there was a program/documentary about the coinciding increase in domestic violence with the World Cup -(it focused on the UK only but I'm sure this applies in other countries). The program makers were very sympathetic, and the police portrayed on the program were also portrayed well. Of course, at one point, they did have to say that any man or woman (note the word "man") who reported domestic abuse, would be treated with the highest priority. But this was the only time they mentioned the man-word. Everyone knows that men, even if hit by a woman, are still at a greater advantage, and this hardly ever happens anyway, and all that counter-accusation about men under-reporting is crap too - but I'm getting side-tracked.....


In some cities where it was especially bad, they had even set up special units specifically in relation to the World cup and it's related increase in woman-beating.

There were some horrendous cases, and the main factor in common with most of the cases was the consumption of alcohol. Also, it didn't seem to matter whether or not the England team had done well or done badly, it was all just a testosterone-fuelled excuse to beat up women.

England has a worldwide reputation for "hooliganism" at football matches at an international level, and although the authorities here and in other countries, have addressed this somewhat, it looks like there is still a big problem on their home turf.

Edit - side note - , but yesterday, there was an article on aol about how the cameramen at the World cup matches must find it hard to concentrate sometimes due to all the totty female fans in the crowd. They showed a lovely gallery of all the flesh-exposing beauties. Ah, the "beautiful game" as they call it here. Isn't it great having this glorious event celebrating male-bonding and the football/sporting testoserone culture? Female fans indeed - what a load of bollox. If I find the link again I will post it. edit found it - here it is - also posted on the topic "more world cup crap-ola".

http://#####.aol.co.uk/world-cup/article.adp?id=20060616092409990002 - (type the word sport where the #'s are - also, I tested this link and it seems that when you copy and paste the link, it inserts and extra forward slash, so you have to delete that for the link to work - sorry).

[delphyne]

I was nearly in tears watching this.

I've had a look on the Tonight website, but so far they haven't put up a link about it yet.

They said that domestic violence rises something like 40% during events like the World Cup and that police forces all over the country have had to set up special units to deal with it.

This is like the stories of the American Superbowl causing a rise in domestic violence, except in this case there arent' a whole lot of anti-feminists telling lies and saying it's not true.

[Army Of Me]

delphyne - yes that silly woman with the black eyes, broken arm and teeth knocked out, who had been beaten and raped multiple times, and was too shit-scared, for good reason, to press charges, was just a lying football-hating, butt-ugly dyke feminist who just wanted to spoil her man's fun, and really, all she had done was fall down the stairs and hit a door. In fact, she fell down the stairs on purpose in order for her story to seem realistic.

[deedle]

They said that domestic violence rises something like 40% during events like the World Cup and that police forces all over the country have had to set up special units to deal with it.

Actually, I've been disputing this with newspaper and broadcast journalists when they've been asking me for interviews lately.

They start off by asking me what I think about the Police press releases saying that dv will increase over the World Cup and they get a bit hacked off when I tell them that it's actually not going to increase by much. Then I explain to them that it's highly unlikely that a man is going to beat his partner for the first time due to the football. In fact, most of the women who will be assaulted during the World Cup will have been assaulted by their partners many times before.

What we might see is an increase in reporting of dv as abusers go on some kind of synchronised bashing spree but I dispute that dv itself will rise dramatically.

The journalists then kind of lose interest - like "oh well, if they're getting bashed already it's not really a story, is it?" I then suggest that maybe if they kept dv in the news as a matter of routine instead of treating it like some kind of weird side effect of the football then that'd be far more helpful to victims/survivors and they might even be able to influence public opinion.

That's not sensational enough, apparently...

[Army Of Me]

very interesting angle deedle and probably true. domestic violence, tied in with the world cup, oh goodie (think the media) here's a story that will get people watching.

So the dv becomes more obvious, not because of an increase, but because police are responding to more calls due to extra units?