The Irish Times and its commentary on femicide

It's a popular issue so gets clicks. There are some modern feminists who seem to have a victim mentality and their aim appears to be to subjugate men. Superiority, rather than equality.

Calls for Irish men to require a license to socialise after Ashling Murphy was murdered demonstrated that, all to be quickly dropped when a non-Irish national was arrested.

Like most sensible people, I find the extreme feminists whose solution to genuine problems is radical overreaction to be more hindrance than help: for example, many genuine cases of sexual assault are not prosecuted due to lack of sufficient evidence, therefore the solution is "believe all women" and just prosecute men based on accusation. The flaw in such an approach is obvious. Not all women are angels, some lie to destroy lives.

On the other hand, in every area from spousal violence to human trafficking, from porn to prostitution, from war to gang violence, the overwhelming abuse and violence is committed by men, and female rage at this is understandable. That most victims of male violence are other men does not alter the basic fact that for women the perpetrators are almost always men. If it was the other way round men would soon do something about it.

What annoys me about IT is their claim that boys are raised to be misogynistic when in Ireland today that's patently not true. Boys are taught about consent, they are taught about bullying and violence, and the vast majority pay heed. A minority never will and this can't be changed by education alone when men are clearly more prone to violence by nature.

There is data showing that Ireland is amongst the safest with the lowest rates for feminicde in Europe .

Without doubt male suicide has been problematic in males with I think it's prevalence being something like 7 times greater than women with studies showing men being historically unwilling or unable to seek help from professionals when experiencing crisis or mental ill health is something certainly to be addressed possibly as an educational piece from a young age.

That woman in Limerick was historically convicted of manslaughter in a drink driving case .

I agree with you in regard to the IT article particularly in regard to my first paragraph, there is anecdotal evidence that certain commentators after the Aisling Murphy murder are seeking to raise the profile of themselves or agencies for funding etc.

Interestingly enough , I think we have the highest rate of homeless women in Europe

I assume you've stats to back that up?

That's one, from 7 months ago.

Now, where are all the wholesale vicious assaults? That implies it happens regularly.

I saw this article the other day and thought god that's awful that that many women have been killed in recent decades. As toxic as this place is, I didn't think I'd see men posting here complaining about it because they feel hard done by. I really should not be surprised.

Breaking news…women get killed sometimes.

Yawn.

Also it's mindset seems stuck in a south county Dublin dinner party bubble. Their only interest in anything outside the M50 seem to about what adventures people from south county Dublin get up to.

And another thing why I'm on a roll is I could never understand why Michael McDowell gets so much opportunity to repeat the same diatribes. Same with many of their scribes, Una Mullaly and Breda O'Brian stand out as polar opposites but equally repeditive in their slock.

I really think with our membership of the EU so important and with so many EU citizens in Ireland they could run more regional stories from all over Europe.