“Often I will hear people say ‘I don’t know anyone who would do such a thing. Not my son, not any of his friends,’ ” Batty said. But this can’t be true.
It’s been 10 years since Rosie Batty’s son, Luke, was murdered by his father at cricket practice. But she still thinks about him every day, and she still struggles to look at photos or videos of him.
“So what do they look like? … I imagined a father harming his child to be one that was abusive and neglectful and a nasty man, horrible to his kids. Not somebody who was highly protective, and loving, and would go to the ends of the earth for him. I still can’t work that one out,” she said. “And truth be told, the decade gone by weighs heavily on me in many ways ... Between many things I’ve grappled with since Luke’s death, large among them is the feeling of absolute despair I carry.
“It is very tiresome having to always explain that we don’t believe all men are violent, that we are not feminist Nazis ... But men need to step up. They are committing the majority of the violence,” she said.
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