JUST JOSH: The Problem with the Conversation About Male Violence
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Australia is in the grip of a national reckoning about male violence against women. Last month, 11 women died at the hands of men, almost half of whom were killed in the Bondi stabbing. Countless news reports describe an epidemic of men killing women. Rallies all over the country emphasise the central message: Men Need To Do Better. But what do the facts say? How can we best fix the problem? And is Josh merely being a defensive, toxic male when he says it’s “not all men”? Josh seeks to bring reason to an emotional conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Goody, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. Here's a not very dangerous idea. Domestic violence is terrible. People shouldn't get murdered. People shouldn't be abused. People shouldn't be coerced. Coercive relationships are something we need to do more about. But we're at a moment where we're |
| 0:22.2 | having conversations about the scourge of domestic violence and male violence in a more general |
| 0:27.4 | sense that I fear are not particularly constructive. And I'd like to reflect on the way that we're |
| 0:34.9 | having those conversations, part of my job on uncomfortable conversations is to, I suppose, |
| 0:39.5 | forensically analyse the way we're having conversations about things |
| 0:42.5 | and try to offer a more constructive path. |
| 0:46.3 | Because we're leaving a lot of people behind at the moment. |
| 0:49.9 | Australia finds itself at a turning point in regards to attention to this particular issue. |
| 0:57.7 | There is currently consideration of major reforms, both at a state and federal level. |
| 1:04.3 | There have been huge rallies in most of the big cities in Australia against domestic violence |
| 1:09.9 | and a sense of it being time to say |
| 1:12.7 | we're fed up with this and we need to do better. And there are a lot of things that are being |
| 1:17.5 | proposed that I completely agree with. Some of the platforms that are being put forth by domestic |
| 1:24.5 | violence advocates make a lot of sense. The five demands of the activists who are pressuring the government to do more, |
| 1:32.5 | they want to declare a national emergency. |
| 1:35.3 | They want mandatory victim-blaming prevention training for police, for the media, |
| 1:41.2 | and for first responders. |
| 1:42.7 | That sounds sensible. |
| 1:44.0 | They want alternative reporting options for violence victims, for first responders. That sounds sensible. They want alternative reporting options |
| 1:45.6 | for violence victims, like specialist courts to hear their cases. That sounds reasonable. |
| 1:51.3 | They want the media to wait 48 hours before identifying the victims of violence, also sounds fair |
| 1:56.9 | to me, and for the government to give better and more sustainable funding for organisations with five-year minimum commitments. Now, the Prime Minister has done the latter. He's pledged |
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