The more I heard the discourse around respect and violence, the more it reminded me of being told that it was up to all Muslims to own the problem of terrorism and solve it.
I think I first made that decision in 2015, when Malcolm Turnbull declared that “disrespecting women does not always result in violence against women. But all violence against women begins with disrespecting women”. Here, Turnbull echoed what seemed to be the dominant explanation of domestic violence at the time. But I couldn’t repress a simple thought when I heard Turnbull’s comment: I just don’t think that’s correct.
But the nagging feeling never left because there are still things the gender equality approach just cannot explain. The most famous is the “Nordic paradox”: where Scandinavian countries who are widely regarded to have the most gender-equal societies in the world also report some of the highest rates of sexual assault and gendered violence across the European Union.
The more I heard this discourse, the more it reminded me of being told that it was up to Muslims to own the problem of terrorism and get serious about solving it. That the good Muslims had to set the bad Muslims straight, that Muslims needed to start challenging radical Islamism; that terrorism was the end of a continuum that began with anti-American discourse, or women wearing headscarves.And here’s the thing: it didn’t work.
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