Miranda Devine Blames Domestic Violence On ‘Unsuitable Women’, Poor People

Poverty is the cause of domestic violence, the desperate chaos of the underclass, played out in welfare dependency, mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, especially psychosis-inducing ice.

Demonising men, and pouring taxpayer money into permanent meddling bureaucracies, will do nothing to alleviate domestic tragedy.

Violence against women does discriminate, starkly. It is concentrated in communities with a high indigenous population, in the Northern Territory, in impoverished rural towns, in the urban fringes where the underclass lives, where welfare has emasculated men, where unemployment is high and education poor, and where drug and alcohol abuse is rife. These are the obvious preconditions for violence. 

If you want to break the cycle of violence, end the welfare incentive for unsuitable women to keep having children to a string of feckless men.

Twitter has wasted precisely no time in tearing Devine to shreds for the column, slamming her for claiming that domestic violence is somehow something that ‘unsuitable women’ bring on themselves, and reiterating the sad fact that it affects all tiers of society:

Writer Nakkiah Lui penned a heartfelt response about her own family’s experience with domestic violence, saying that her mother is far from an ‘unsuitable woman’, and that it can strike anywhere:

Yvonne, a commenter on the original Daily Tele piece, also took Miranda to task for her narrow-minded view, and pointed out that domestic violence crosses all barriers of money and class:

Oh Miranda. You will hopefully never know the experience of the isolation of a woman who is being abused by an educated and successful man. My mother and family still don’t know. In my case it started after the birth of our child. I struggled with this for 3 years until I got the courage to get out, which was monumentally scary. My eventual courage came from understanding, that he would never do something to me that could come to public knowledge. All that happens is kept strictly behind closed doors. He’s a successful and extremely competent Medical specialist. An anglo-saxon private boys school educated bright man. I was stunned and confused and disbelieving that what was happening was real. I tried to find all sorts of reasons, gave it all kinds of excuses. I was like you, this only happens in certain circles, until it happened to me. Since, I’ve found out my experience is not so unique after all.

And thus, yet again, the internet has been successfully trolled by Miranda Devine.