Modern Women

Of course, men aren’t the only sex to have evolved.

Long gone are the days where it was acceptable for a man to beat a desired mate over the head with a blunt instrument and drag her off by the hair. That just wouldn’t happen in the 21st Century.

Not that I’ve tried it myself, but I think this sort of behaviour would be frowned upon in the modern day discotheque. There would be smouldering bras all over Small Corner and I might wind up in a spot of bother. Now that women have rights and things.

Like any general rules, or laws as we like to refer to them these days, there are exceptions. One word, heard across the land by many a Police Officer, is all it takes to explain a woman’s willingness to be treated in a Neanderthal manner by their chosen companion.

We hear it when your neighbours have called us again and we find you a bloody mess and screaming at your drunken, aggressive bully of a partner.

We hear it when we try and drag him off to a much more suitable bed for the night. Somewhere where we think he might not be in a position to disturb your neighbours, nor to use you as a punchbag.

We hear it when we explain our Positive Arrest policy.

We hear it when the ambulance crew/hospital staff are doing their best to patch you up.

We hear it when we try to get the details of this latest episode in front of your small children who’ve just witnessed Mummy getting hit again.

We hear it when we attempt to take a fuller statement that we can use to finally put your companion in an all male holiday camp for a few months.

We hear it when you tell us that we ‘won’t do nuffink’ and how we’re wasting your valuable time.

We hear it when we offer to refer you to outside agencies and give you advice and support to get an injunction to stop him from coming near you again.

We hear it when we tell you about the court date and you let us know how nice he’s been and how you don’t think you’ll bother.

We hear it when the court has summonsed you to give evidence against the man who assaulted you and will be doing it again sometime soon.

We hear it after you’ve given evidence that bears no resemblance to any facts or statement you’ve given to us.

We hear it when you support his spurious complaint against us for being too rough when we dragged him off on that night when you had the ‘misunderstanding’.

We hear it all over again when your neighbours have called us after the honeymoon period has finished and he’s had a drink.

“Butiluv’im”

Well, that’s alright then.