TEDxRyersonU - Jeff Perera - Words Speak Louder Than Actions

Do you believe in a future without violence?

Jeff Perera is a student in Ryerson University's School of Social Work. He is a workshop facilitator for the White Ribbon Campaign, the world's largest effort to engage men in ending violence against women, he is also founder of the Ryerson White Ribbon Campaign.

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[JeffPerera1]

Hey everyone follow @jeffperera for details on our upcoming discussion-focused conference 'What Makes A Man 2012. Higher Unlearning: The White Ribbon Conference' coming to Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. An interactive webcast will allow you to engage with us all over the world! Redefine Worldwide February 10th-11th 2012!

[soccerfreke13]

Love the way you invite men to revisit the regard they have for the women in their lives!

[DiwataMan]

@Bumblybee256 I think you mean the encourgement of the state be a single mom rather than decency to actually stick around.

[Bumblybee256]

@DiwataMan and btw- the funniest part of this was your complete failure to understand that, unless one parent is dead, any neglected child is neglected by both parents. Women just generally have the decency to actually stick around. Well done on avoiding my questions-bye bye dear.

[DiwataMan]

@Bumblybee256 lollzzzzz.

[Bumblybee256]

@DiwataMan You live in a fantasy land mate, with a shocking ignorance of the effects of sexual abuse. You've never been a struggling single mum. Essentially what you have attempted to say here is that ultimately women are responsible for male violence against them. You're a coward and nothing more you send me will be read. It's pathetic and you deserve no one.

[DiwataMan]

@Bumblybee256 Neglectful mothers are as bad as pedo pops.

[DiwataMan]

@Bumblybee256 "Neglect also occurs for reasons such poverty, depression, lack of role model." what happened to "you can't blame your behaviour on your circumstances or on other people"?

[Bumblybee256]

@DiwataMan Guess which gender is disproportionately represented in caring for the elderly and in care work in general? Doesn't take a genius to see the holes in that study.

You can't give men a pass for their upbringing and hold women to account despite theirs. You have never been in a single mother's shoes and your behaviour is not your mother's responsibility anymore, you have a brain so act like it.

[Bumblybee256]

@DiwataMan Neglect also occurs for reasons such poverty, depression, lack of role model. Who perpetrates the most violent and deliberate abuses?

And also why is it only abusive men who you're pardoning due to their upbringing and not these so-called 'abusive mothers'? Did they not have an upbringing, potentilly a great deal more damaging than that of the boys due to the disproportionate number of GIRLS that suffer incest?