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Russia is inching towards utopian equality by considering a law that would decriminalize domestic violence:
The amendment would make "moderate" violence within families an administrative rather than criminal offence, punishable by a fine rather than a jail sentence. [...] The law was drafted by Yelena Mizulina, an ultra-conservative MP who was also behind the controversial Russian law banning "gay propaganda". She told parliament that "in Russian traditional families, the relationship between parents and their children is built on authority and power". She said it was ridiculous that people could be branded criminals "for a slap".
The Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, is due to hear the bill in a second reading next week, after passing it on the first reading by 386 votes to one. It needs to pass three readings in the Duma before it is moved to parliament's upper house, and then requires the signature of the president, Vladimir Putin.
[...] The amendment would decriminalise any violence that does not cause serious medical harm, which is defined as requiring hospital treatment. Beatings that leave bruises, scratches or bleeding but do not leave lasting negative health effects such as broken bones or concussion will no longer be criminal. If there is a second beating within a year, however, the case can be made a criminal one.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Entropy on Monday January 23 2017, @08:53PM
In most(not all) places you're allowed to spank your children. Domestic violence laws are more about forcing someone to bring criminal charges when they don't want to. It's illegal (generally speaking) to punch someone in the face....If you want it to be. If you don't(such as a boxing match, or willing participants on a fight) then it's legal.
In the domestic violence world the woman slaps the guy and she goes to jail automatically, then the guy touches the cops for dragging his woman off to jail and he goes to jail for a long time. Then their kids go into foster care because the parents allowed them to witness all that nonsense.
In a world without stupid domestic violence laws? Husband: Yeah I'm ok, no I'm not interested in sending her to jail. Cops: Ok we're out of here.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 23 2017, @09:02PM
You're an idiot then. Domestic violence laws exist because it's not the same thing as regular assaults. These are people who are by definition living together and where there's a huge set of consequences that come from choosing to press charges if they don't stick. You're then left living with somebody that's violent and probably pissed off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @07:46AM
The huge set of consequences are called life. You talk as if bringing criminal law system into picture is somehow not going to have any set of consequences. It is the opposite - it brings huge consequences for both parties instead of one. That's it.
See, this is the problem when you want to save a relationship and break it at the same time. You want abusive relationships to go away but you don't want to have any consequences for being in it. And let's be clear - domestic violence has been painted by a feminist dogma so hard it has become impossible to talk about the fact that most DV is committed by women and it is normalized. The whole discourse has become one where we don't want to look at abusive relationship as bad, but as some sort of perverted male fantasy that needs to be fixed by invoking criminal justice system.
(Score: 1) by Bruke on Tuesday January 24 2017, @08:38AM
I'm aware that domestic violence can come from either gender but your statement is the first time I've heard it said that "...most DV is committed by women..."
Can you provide a citation to back that up? I'd find it to be interesting reading if it's from a legitimate source.