Invisibilizing Violence Against Women written by Ruth M. Mann in Power and Resistance explores the issue of violence against women in the Canadian context. Mann examines the government's actions made towards violence against women, statistics regarding violence against all genders, and the process of invisibilization that is occurring against women violence. Although women may not be the only sex dealing with violence, the majority of perpetrators are men. Whether that be male-female relationships or same-sex relationships, they are constantly the main instigators. Although the process of educating the public about violence that men face as well, there is a larger issue at hand. The Canadian federal effort should not be identifying the victims…show more content… Furthermore, the Canadian government, under prime minister Stephen Harper: “removed research and advocacy from the Status of Women mandate and closed twelve of the sixteen federal-provincial-territorial offices” (Mann, P&R, 2012, 55). The men's rights movements provided a large factor towards the removal of these offices. Moreover, this movement also outlines that men and women are both equally susceptible to violence. Although there is evidence to support this statement, men are the perpetrator's in cases of violence the majority of the time (Mann, P&R, 2012, 51). Mann argues that government negligence and social inequality in Canada are major contributing factors to the invisibilization of violence against women. Mann is correct in explaining the process of the invisibilization of this issue, but we must examine this topic through another perspective. Invisibilizing an issue such as violence towards women reduces the importance of the subject through the eyes of the public. Raising awareness is supposed to reduce the issue federally. The government must focus on the perpetrators to see any substantial reduction of violence against women or…show more content… Although violence towards these is equally as important, it is discrediting the attention towards violence against women. In the context of other social inequalities such as the Black Lives Matter movement, generalizing their issue with others oppresses their goal. The BLM movement is intended to give black men and women the same treatment of other races. Other citizens believed this neglected other minorities and created the All Lives Matter movement. Not acknowledging this movement oppresses BLM and what it stands for by not even allowing the movement to focus on the group that faces the most oppression. The Family Violence Initiative in Canada had similar consequences as it removed the focus from women violence, leading to
