Please note that this topic can get heated for several reasons:
abuse/violence is already a topic people understandably have strong feelings about
the discussion in this comment is getting into comparing two populations and asking which of them has it worse, which might make people feel like the issues are being trivialized or dismissed. I think it might be best to evaluate the issues separately and see if they are promising as cause areas (e.g. via the ITN framework).
In particular, there’s a tendency to contrast “violence against women” with “violence against men.” I think this is a false comparison, no truer than contrasting “violence against women” with “air pollution.” The question isn’t “do men or women more frequently face violence.” It’s, “where are there effective interventions?” This post lists potentially-effective interventions for preventing violence against women and girls, and all of them are quite specific to the kind of violence that women face.
More generally, we want to ask everyone to be especially careful when discussing topics this sensitive.
Please note that this topic can get heated for several reasons:
abuse/violence is already a topic people understandably have strong feelings about
the discussion in this comment is getting into comparing two populations and asking which of them has it worse, which might make people feel like the issues are being trivialized or dismissed. I think it might be best to evaluate the issues separately and see if they are promising as cause areas (e.g. via the ITN framework).
In particular, there’s a tendency to contrast “violence against women” with “violence against men.” I think this is a false comparison, no truer than contrasting “violence against women” with “air pollution.” The question isn’t “do men or women more frequently face violence.” It’s, “where are there effective interventions?” This post lists potentially-effective interventions for preventing violence against women and girls, and all of them are quite specific to the kind of violence that women face.
More generally, we want to ask everyone to be especially careful when discussing topics this sensitive.