My initial comment was a side comment and I don't want to derail the thread.
I am talking about the general cultural conversation needs to shift from telling women to be safe to telling men to do no harm. It shifts the onus from someone who might be a victim to someone who might be a perp and hopefully would make a cultural shift happen where violence against women (and children) becomes more visible, becomes a more important topic, and is taken more seriously than it currently seems to be in general. For example, a person being stalked or a victim of DV is often not believed or the system can't or won't do much to help often until it is too late. Or too many indigenous and minority women are murdered or disappear and... there's just nothing.
Again, I am talking about a cultural mindshift. It takes years -- kind of like how there have been cultural shifts around cigarette use, drunk driving, and wearing seatbelts.
I may not be explaining it well but I hope some can at least consider the benefit such a shift would bring if we, as a culture, made the idea of violence toward women a stronger concept of men needing to stop doing violence rather than women just needing to protect themselves.
(Yes, the issues are more than that. I know. I can hear the arguments starting. My comment is general and long term, hoping for a better future.)
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, I just want to see him receive the fullest extent of punishment allowed by law.
