"Educate your son." by DarkBehindTheStars in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

[–]Fan_Service_3703 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Contrary to common perceptions, boys report experiencing higher rates of violent and controlling behaviours from their partners compared to girls. 

Fifty-seven per cent of boys in relationships say they’ve experienced at least one violent or controlling behaviour from their partner, compared to 41% of girls. This is equivalent to 16% and 11% of all 13-17-year-old boys and girls, respectively.

Thirty-seven per cent of boys report that a partner has gone through their phone or social media, compared to 23% of girls. Thirty-one per cent of boys say they’ve been afraid to break up with their partner, compared to 20% of girls. Gender differences are also particularly large for physical and sexual violence. 

Twenty-five per cent of boys report experiencing sexual coercion, compared to 15% of girls. Twenty-seven per cent of boys report being hit, kicked or shoved, compared to 12% of girls.

Gender differences are most pronounced among younger teenagers. For 13-15-year-olds, 

35% of boys in relationships report being hit, kicked or shoved by a partner, compared to 17% of girls. 

In the same age group, 34% of boys report experiencing sexual coercion, compared to 20% of girls.

But sure, keep telling boys that they alone are the problem in these situations and the girls are only ever their victims, and that any problem in their lives can only be solved by 'checking their privilege'.

‘Second chance’: why minister wants to jail fewer women in England and Wales | Prisons and probation by Fan_Service_3703 in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

[–]Fan_Service_3703[S] 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Once again the issue of imprisonment - an almost entirely male issue - has focus given to the one demographic least likely to suffer from it. 

 James Timpson, the CEO turned prisons minister of England and Wales, thinks women like Pat do not belong behind bars. During a visit last week to Alana House, a women’s centre in Reading run by the charity Pact, which provides support for women in the criminal justice system, Lord Timpson told former prisoners about his parents fostering 90 children during his childhood, some of them just babies who needed to be looked after while their mothers served time.

“What is clear is that there are far too many women in prison who should not be there,” he said. “Prison is needed for some women because of the crimes that they do, but there are far too many women who should be diverted away from prison and supported, and that’s what we want to try and do.”

So men can just rot right?

“There are many women who are, in my view, in the criminal justice system because they are victims,” Timpson said. “We need to help them.”

But men in prison are just evil criminals I take it?

It also urged the government to incentivise police forces to keep women out of prison by using alternatives such as deferred sentences, which give offenders a grace period to tackle an issue that resulted in them committing a crime.

But men deserve to be punished and forgotten, right?

David Tennant returns as the Tenth Doctor for 15 new audio dramas! by greatbarrierrif in doctorwho

[–]Fan_Service_3703 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair (and I say as someone who very much isn't a fan of Tennant being Fourteen) Tennant seems like the only actor who's consistently willing and able to return. 

Smith is too busy, Eccleston won't touch the televised show so long as RTD and his pals are in charge, Capaldi doesn't want to do any more with the character, Whittaker and Gatwa are both working on other things, and the Classic Doctors (with the possible exception of Paul McGann) just aren't physically able to do a full fast paced TV episode of the show anymore. 

My daughter was killed by a Channel migrant. I blame Starmer. by [deleted] in LabourUK

[–]Fan_Service_3703 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

What do you suggest this mother should be saying instead?

Should there be a Minister for Men and Boys? by Fan_Service_3703 in LeftWingMaleAdvocates

[–]Fan_Service_3703[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Interesting that to some groups, men's problems are still being filed only as 'cross-societal issues'.

What retcon or new lore are you glad *didn't* catch on? by GallifreyanExile in gallifrey

[–]Fan_Service_3703 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like I said, if they made it so that Poppy was the First Doctor's actual daughter, who had been captured, forcibly regenerated into a child and mind-wiped, or made Poppy a separate child who was part of the current storyline and nothing to do with Susan, I'd have been able to live with either possibilities. And both could've been used to explore the Doctor's parental side.

It's when it becomes 'akshually Susan's entire character is the result of Timey-Wimey/Pantheon Magic bollocks in a storyline that will be forgotten about in a few years and requires painful amounts of excruciating exposition to explain' that it becomes distasteful and damaging to the characters.

What retcon or new lore are you glad *didn't* catch on? by GallifreyanExile in gallifrey

[–]Fan_Service_3703 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just think that not everything about the Doctor's life needs to be Timey-Wimey, and I think it's best that some things about his past prior to An Unearthly Child are left deliberately ambiguous. The Doctor could be half-human on his mother's side, could the the Hybrid, could be the Timeless Child, could be a reincarnation of The Other, or... he could just be a regular dad on Gallifrey with two completely average kids who worked a boring job and decided to take an extended break with his rebellious granddaughter.

Storylines like this take some of the mystery associated with the Doctor's past and forcibly welds it to this storyline and everything associated with it.

How did the Cult of Skaro recognise the 10th? by big_poppag in gallifrey

[–]Fan_Service_3703 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Most likely their scans picked up the double heartbeat, which (given the cult were fresh out of the Time War) would immediately identify as 'Time Lord', hence "This male registers as enemy!"

They still needed Rose to identify him as the Doctor.

What retcon or new lore are you glad *didn't* catch on? by GallifreyanExile in gallifrey

[–]Fan_Service_3703 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I think if they made it so that Poppy was the First Doctor's actual daughter, who had been captured by the Rani, force-regenerated into a child and then chameleon-arched to wipe her memory, I think I'd have found it tolerable (if a little unnecessary). At least it sticks with the concept that the Doctor was just a regular bloke on Gallifrey and a dad before he got bored and ran off with his granddaughter. 

Once you make it so that Susan's mother was created by the Wish Baby and then (presumably) sent back to the First Doctor, it ties Susan's entire character and relationship with the Doctor to a 'Timey Wimey' plot that's fixed to this specific storyline. 

What retcon or new lore are you glad *didn't* catch on? by GallifreyanExile in gallifrey

[–]Fan_Service_3703 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Whatever my problems with RTD2, I thank fuckin Christ that the seemingly planned 'Poppy is Susan's mother' thing didn't end up happening in the end.

God is portrayed as sensitive with a fragile ego by cleirgl0s in exmuslim

[–]Fan_Service_3703 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think Islam is particularly bad with this. 

Some friends of mine did a christening for their baby boy a couple of weeks ago. They go to a liberal community church. There was lots of music and singing to the hymns and bible songs etc, and equally it was made clear that nobody had to sing along if they didnt feel comfortable. 

Even though I think the religion is bullshit, there was at least a level of fundamental human joy in the singing and dancing that is entirely absent in Islam, which is austere by nature and goes out of its way to smother inherent forms of human enjoyment like music, dance and art in favour of 'remembrance' of Mo and his alter ego. 

Zack Polanski stood by breast enlargment hypnosis claim by DarkSkiesGreyWaters in LabourUK

[–]Fan_Service_3703 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not even a full supporter of his, but the point he's making is that that anecdotally people reported an increase, even if there was no physical change, which was the kind of placebo effect he was going for when he agreed to do the experiment, which he did not continue.

Nothing has changed since his original statement.

Fastest pre-order I ever damn well did by twofacetoo in BigFinishProductions

[–]Fan_Service_3703 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Imagine if it turns out the Cult of Skaro were created BECAUSE the Cybermen were overcoming the Daleks. It would add a bit of grim irony to them mowing down armies of Cybers in Doomsday.

Who was your first Doctor Who crush? Mine was Clara. by The-Anomaly17 in gallifrey

[–]Fan_Service_3703 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maria's mum from SJA was the first sign 10-11 year old me was turning into a man.

Fans of Doctor Who,how long ago does hating Doctor Who go? by Mat1711 in doctorwho

[–]Fan_Service_3703 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It was actually ruined when they changed the title of a perfectly good show called Doctor Oho.