Quote Originally Posted by NoraB View Post
Several episodes? The MAJORITY goes on behind closed doors. There are many men (and women) walking around out there who, by rights, should be locked up for abusing their partners/spouses.

In one year, (2020) it's estimated that 1.6 million women suffered domestic abuse. That's more than a 'few episodes'.

As for the 'authorities'...

The police, who consistently ignore women's pleas for help and in too many cases, 'help' and 'belief' comes too late.

Same for vulnerable children. Kids die, and then the people in 'authority' are forced to pull their finger out and do their jobs for a bit until complacency sets in again and there's another tragedy which could have been avoided had they done their jobs properly.
The problem is that many of us for many years now have had the 'it's someone else's problem' and 'I've got far more important things to be concerned about', coupled with our general lack of faith in the police and the authorities in general, of which largely comes down to the 'caught napping' syndrome, which has gone on for years now.

In fact, many children and vulnerable adults have almost always been on the receiving end of 'victim-blaming' and being told the same old same old excuses time and time again, such as 'they were probably asking for it', 'they probably pushed their parents/carers/partners/spouses/siblings to it', 'a bloody good hiding never did past generations any harm', etc.

And a lot of the campaign adverts, PIFs, etc on TV; many people eventually just switch off from them, especially as they often feel powerless to do much about many of the issues covered being conveyed to us, plus also having a tendency to suffer from so-called 'compassion fatigue'.

But the authorities will still no doubt always be more than willing to gleefully woe betide us Auties for stimming and having meltdowns in public, issue us with ASBOs and put the fear of God into us with endless lectures about 'zero tolerance' and generally treat us like we're the bane of their lives, while still often ignoring the 'real' menaces to society and repeatedly letting them off scot-free!