England: Frauenhäuser müssen auch Männer aufnehmen

Ein neues Gleichstellungsgesetz, das eigentlich nur eine Benachteiligung von Frauen unterbinden sollte, führt zu einer unerwarteten Folge:

Charities for battered women have been threatened with the loss of their funding unless they help male victims of domestic violence, under new equality laws.

Women's Aid, the domestic violence charity whose patrons include the prime minister's wife, Sarah Brown, says its female-only services are essential to reassure battered women and children that they will be safe. However, some local authorities are demanding that services such as counselling and outreach be opened to both sexes.

Fiona Mactaggart, the former Home Office minister, said some refuge services had lost grants or contracts in what she said was an "unintended consequence" of changes in equality law.

"There are some local authorities who interpret equalities to mean that a refuge has to provide for men, not only for women," said Mactaggart, co-chair of the women's parliamentary Labour party, a grouping of female MPs. "There are some stupidnesses developing in the system that nobody intended."

Es gibt aus Sicht einer waschechten Feministin offenbar nichts Dümmeres als die Vorstellung, dass ein Gesetz, das die Gleichbehandlung der Geschlechter durchsetzen soll, auch Männer benutzten, um damit gegen ihre eigenen Benachteiligungen anzugehen. Also ehrlich: Sowas Bescheuertes kann doch keine ahnen!

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