Men who perpetrate domestic and sexual violence are *made*, not born. Their use of violence is the unsurprising outcome of widespread social conditions. They use violence not because of some hardwired disposition but because of the gendered norms and inequalities around them. 1/3

The violence that some men use is the predictable result of the lessons about manhood they absorb as they grow up, the sexist peer cultures in which they participate, and the gender inequalities & other conditions that are woven into their everyday lives. 2/3

So if we want to stop making perpetrators, we have to change the social conditions which produce them. That is what primary prevention is: changing the cultural, and material, and structural conditions which drive violence. To prevent initial perpetration & victimisation. 3/3