You’ve probably seen the video of Miranda Devine talking to Georgie Gardner about how women are “the weaker sex” by now.
Devine went on to say that women need men to protect us, and if we demonise them by discussing violence against women, they’ll stop doing all the protecting they’ve been doing.
"Women are the weaker sex and I think it is outrageous to be demonising the very people who protect us." #9Today pic.twitter.com/hFazOWVyNN
— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) July 3, 2018
No offence, guys, but if protecting women is what you’ve been doing up until now, you’ve been doing a pretty terrible job.
If men were protecting women, we wouldn’t be losing one woman a week on average to murder at the hands of a current or former partner.
If men were protecting women, 80% of domestic violence murders wouldn’t be women killed by a male partner or former partner.
If men were protectors of our ~weaker sex~, 33% of women wouldn’t have experienced physical violence since the age of 15, and 20% wouldn’t have experienced sexual violence.
Women wouldn’t be three times more likely than men to experience violence from a partner if those partners could be trusted to protect the women they claim to love instead of harming them.
So what, or who, does Miranda think women need to be protected from, exactly? Sabre-tooth tigers? Heart disease? Hard-to-open jars?