Neuer australischer Premierminister beginnt Regierungszeit mit Männerbashing

Der neu gewählte australische Premierminister Malcolm Turnbull wählte als erste Amtshandlung Statements gegen häusliche Gewalt – solange Frauen dabei die Opfer und Männer die Täter sind:

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on all Australians to make a "cultural shift" and stop disrespecting women, declaring that gender inequality lies at the heart of domestic violence. In comments that have been labelled a "gamechanger" for the fight against domestic violence, Mr Turnbull called on parents, teachers and employers to get on board the culture change, saying he wanted Australia to become known as a country that respects women.

"I'd say that as parents, one of the most important things we must do is ensure that our sons respect their mothers and their sisters," Mr Turnbull told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday.

(...) The Prime Minister made his rallying cry while announcing $100 million in federal funding to help stop violence against women.

(...) There is also additional funding for Indigenous family violence services, 1800 RESPECT and MensLine and a program which teaches school students about respectful relationships.

Domestic violence campaigner Rosie Batty, whose has advised on the reforms was emotional on Thursday at their launch. "We finally are starting to hear from the leaders of our country that they are addressing this issue, that they recognise the responsibility they have to lead our society, our communities, by speaking the language we need to hear," the 2015 Australian of the Year said.

(...) But the $100 million package received a cautious welcome from some groups on Thursday. Anti-domestic violence group, Fair Agenda described the announcements as "a good start but they're not enough". In a recent report, Fair Agenda itemised more than $300 million worth of funding that is needed to plug service gaps.

Okay, mal sehen: Der Regierungschef Australiens macht männliche Opfer häuslicher Gewalt unsichtbar, seinem Weltbild zufolge geht Gewalt von Söhnen gegen Mütter aus und nicht umgekehrt, die Medien helfen ihm bei dieser Nummer, eine Frau mit einer sexistischen Agenda wird zur Australierin des Jahres gewählt und auf hundert Millionen Dollar reagiert das feminsitische Lager nicht mit Dankbarkeit sondern dem Wunsch nach mehr. Und das alles bedeutet, dass wir in einer Gesellschaft leben, die Frauen hasst. Diese kollektive Wirklichkeitsflucht von Politik und Medien ist schon beängstigend.

Immerhin gibt es einzelne Journalisten, die Turnbull diesen Quatsch nicht durchgehen lassen. Etwa Miranda Devine, die in ihrem Artikel Die Dämonisierung von Männern wird häusliche Gewalt nicht stoppen einige Hintergründe dieses Irrsinns erläutert:

It is a grim portent that Malcolm Turnbull’s first policy announcement as Prime Minister was a $100 million gimmick blaming domestic violence on gender inequality.

"Women must be respected," thundered Turnbull. "Disrespecting women is unacceptable."

He has drunk the feminist Kool-Aid. But, somehow, I don’t think Turnbull’s commanding the nation to respect women will stop endemic violence in dysfunctional remote indigenous communities and public housing estates.

Poverty is the cause of domestic violence, the desperate chaos of the underclass, played out in welfare dependency, mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, especially psychosis-inducing ice.

Demonising men, and pouring taxpayer money into permanent meddling bureaucracies, will do nothing to alleviate domestic tragedy.

It just increases government’s role in our lives, and further disempowers vulnerable men.

Of course, Turnbull, a few days in the job, was simply announcing a plan that Tony Abbott and his chief of staff Peta Credlin had cooked up to try to improve his vote with women.

Beginning as a diversion from the knighthood fiasco of January, it involved Australian of the Year, Rosie Batty, who has become the untouchable expert on domestic violence.

(...) Worse, the underlying narrative is about disrespecting men.

Turnbull claimed: “one in four young men think it’s OK to slap a girl when you’ve been drinking”.

That just doesn’t pass the sniff test. Anyone with a passing acquaintance with young men knows it’s absurd.

(...) How does slandering young men encourage "respect for women"? That market research was commissioned by the taxpayer-funded domestic violence lobbying group “Our Watch”.

Our Watch is chaired by feminist former Democrats Senator Natasha Stott Despoja, curiously appointed by Abbott as Australia’s Ambassador for Women and Girls. She claims: “Violence against women does not discriminate, regardless of ethnicity, social status and geography.”

But the actual statistics show a different reality.

Violence against women does discriminate, starkly. It is concentrated in communities with a high indigenous population, in the Northern Territory, in impoverished rural towns, in the urban fringes where the underclass lives, where welfare has emasculated men, where unemployment is high and education poor, and where drug and alcohol abuse is rife. These are the obvious preconditions for violence.

Leider stellt auch Miranda Devine nicht klar, dass die Hälfte aller Opfer häuslicher Gewalt Männer sind, weshalb "mehr Respekt vor Frauen" ein aberwitziger Ansatz ist, um dieses Problem umfassend zu bewältigen. Dafür ist ihre Einsicht dass häusliche Gewalt überwiegend in wirtschaftlich schwachen Schichten der Bevölkerung auftritt – etwas, was sich international, auch in Deutschland, durch Unterschungen bestätigen lässt – ein wichtiger Hinweis, der in der Debatte sonst oft zu kurz kommt. (Über ihren Lösungsvorschlag, das Kürzen von Sozialhilfe, kann man natürlich wieder sehr geteilter Meinung sein.)