There has been a massive outcry about Eurydice Dixon and there deserves to be, a terrible example of society, but the question I have is about the reaction. The response from some groups has been "parents need to teach their sons not to rape or hit women" which is great in theory, except for the minor issue that the kinds of people that are likely to talk to their kids about this are not the kinds of people this is likely to occur with and the real culprits are likely to be the social problems, for example, a son in a family where a father is beating his wives and kids, who is unlikely to be the kind of person to sit down and tell his kids that it's wrong. The problem really needs to be dealt with at a social level, in the same way that you would target drug dependent homes, alcohol abuse etc.

My second questions stems from the whole idea of blaming "men" as a whole, fair, given its a small portion of the population that are guilty of this shocking behaviour? The justification is that the statistic support this, but on the same level, the statistics support that africans are more likely to end up in jail (10 times high statistically) and if someone released a statement saying "africans shouldn't do crime" it would be labelled racist, so how is this any different? Most men these days would beat the crap out of someone who hit their girlfriend/wife in public so it's not like it's socially acceptable amongst men, it's normally something that happens behind closed doors because the men know it's wrong.