It's hard to find words for this degree of fail

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Women's refuges told they must admit men: Councils say charities could lose funding under new gender equality laws:

Fiona Mactaggart, the former Home Office minister, said some refuge services had lost grants or contracts in what she said was an "unintended consequence" of changes in equality law.

"There are some local authorities who interpret equalities to mean that a refuge has to provide for men, not only for women," said Mactaggart, co-chair of the women's parliamentary Labour party, a grouping of female MPs. "There are some stupidnesses developing in the system that nobody intended."

I think 'stupidnesses' grossly underestimates the missing of the point about women's refuges and safe space for traumatised women.

Women's Aid refers male callers to groups specialising in male victims. But men's rights groups say services for them are much patchier.

And I wonder why that is? Could it possibly be that men's rights groups would rather sit around and whinge, and expect women's organisations tackling domestic violence to take care of the problem, rather than doing anything about provision themselves?

This is peculiarly ironic given that during the week there was a great deal of publicity for a new campaign specifically directed at domestic violence against women featuring Keira Knightley.