Beverley Hammett, 26, was 19 years old when she was the victim of a nitric acid attack at Susan Humphrey's house, where she was babysitting. The attack was actually meant for Susan, and had been planned by her ex-husband, Peter Humphrey. Beverley has had 15 operations and works in childcare in Devon.

One summer's night, I was coming to the end of an evening's babysitting for the children of a woman named Susan Humphrey. I heard the garden gate, but didn't hear anyone let themselves in at the front door. It struck me as strange, but I thought perhaps Susan had forgotten her keys and didn't want to risk waking the children by knocking on the door. I went to the door and opened it a crack to look out and see who it was. I felt slightly daft for being so cautious, but then the door flew open. There was the sound of breaking glass and then the acid hit me in the face. Apparently, I screamed, but I don't remember that. I fell to the floor and had no idea what was going on. I thought the intruder was a burglar, and he would just step over me to take the video, but he left...

...Peter Humphrey, Susan's ex-husband, was charged with ordering an acid attack against her. I just can't understand how someone could do something like that, but she must have somehow known what he was capable of. Humphrey was found guilty of aiding and abetting, counselling or procuring someone unknown to cause grievious bodily harm to me with intent to cause GBH to Mrs Humphrey. When he was sentenced to 12 years, I felt justice had been done, but the attacker has never been caught...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2003/aug/03/features.magazine97

In the Muslim world -

+ Women must walk behind the husband
+ Women are married by their parents to their suitors
+ Women can often not be allowed to go to university or take jobs reserved for men
+ Women have much less voting rights than men


The Muslim world is one of the most sexist places in the world and women suffer terribly with lack of rights in the Arab world.

People are capable of some despicable acts.

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Do Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris  and Sagan sound like Christian names too? Do you think Rushdie is a Muslim name? What about Tariq Ali?

I know you're on the receiving end, but you're grasping at straws.

I was quite obviously talking about the cases of spousal abuse and domestic violence referred to in this thread.

Men are overwhelmingly the abusers in cases of spousal and sexual violence in any culture. Surely you're not arguing against that?

Annie Anthrax wrote on Apr 20^th, 2012 at 7:12am:


unfortunately Annie, I have to agree with you.

Most physical violence comes from men.
it's awful being a man and having to say that, but that is the facts of it.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Apr 20^th, 2012 at 10:50am:



I don't mean to suggest that all men are violent, by any means. Just that, like you say, most acts of physical violence are instigated and carried out by men.

Annie Anthrax wrote on Apr 20^th, 2012 at 10:54am:



Of course Physical violence is more the domain of men.  The physical has always been the males main source of a mans power, closely linked with status, while the females comes from her pussy. 
Look at the pattterns in nature - males fight each other, with the female sitting back watching proceedings, ready to spread her legs to the victor.  Rape is not very common at all under that dynamic.  But remove the approved outlets for male physicality, as has been progressively implemented, and who knows where, how and against whom it will be released.  But one thing is for sure - it WILL be released somehow.  As I've said many times before, what's bad for men, is bad for everyone, and vice versa. 

... wrote on Apr 20^th, 2012 at 10:57am:



I'm not sure what your point is, Wesley. If you believe men are treated unfairly, why not get into some advocacy work and try to be the catalyst for some change?

Do you really expect women to do it for you?