The second is that after decades of seeing the worst of domestic violence against women in particular, many who have fought for reform are so imbued with the injustice of the past that they don t recognise when the pendulum has swung too far. But the aim was to get the scales of justice 'even' not to allow women, as a political force, to 'get even'. It is not justice for the law to discriminate against this generation of men, and the next, to pay for the sins of a past generation. The risks are manifold. Groups seeking to inject a male point of view are absent.
Conferences lack balanced debate.
Further, there are extremists who will not believe that women abuse men. That is foolish. It is also dangerous to balanced society. A natural corollary of unbalanced training is that men become the automatic suspect in any incident. Once called in, so my contacts in the force tell me, most police will act whether they perceive a need or not because, once called to a scene, if they do not take action and abuse occurs later, it will be their necks on the block.