Brianna Parkins: We treat violence from men like one of life’s inevitabilities

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Case of Natasha O’Brien shows up keyboard warriors who want to frighten women, to shut us up, to stop us from calling men out on their behaviour

Natasha O’Brien told Newstalk that the 'the most heartbreaking part is that I wasn’t actually surprised'. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/PA

It was also at 16 that older women in my family started to pull me aside at functions and whisper suddenly to “always make sure you have your money, and never tell your husband how much you have or where it is”. Less is being asked of the offender’s friends who were with him when the soldier reportedly landed at least four right hook punches on O’Brien. What were they doing? Why didn’t they stop him?

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