Is male on male violence a feminist issue?

[Jackpine Radical]

16. Actually, I think women ought to care about M/M violence. The reason

is because the underlying problem is violence.

Many males are raised in a culture of violence, and even organized sports promote it.

As long as males remain violent, they will be indiscriminate in their targets.

And many violent males started out as victims of domestic violence. In my career of doing psych evals of criminals, I must have heard the same story a thousand times from violent men: "Pa would come home drunk and beat the shit out of Ma and then he'd light into us kids. Sometimes I thought he wouldn't let up until he killed me. He kept doing that until I got big enough to knock him down, and that's what I did. And when I went to school, I didn't take no shit from nobody. I musta had 3 fights a week."

As long as our culture tolerates violence between males, it is providing a breeding ground for violence against women as well.

I say this as a 68 year-old man who has never been in a physical fight. My father told me that he also had never been in a fight, and I believe that is true of my grandfather as well.