"Hils" wrote in message

Chris Tolley wrote:
Hils wrote:
Odd how we read more about Asian [sic] women being "victims" than
about unemployed men.

I suspect that it isn't odd at all, but predetermined by our
selection of what we read.

Moreover, the women of Asian heritage who are driven to take their
lives often have been victims of abuse from an identifiable abuser,
whereas someone who is unemployed has rarely been victimised by one
person, unless you are going to lay the blame for their state at the
door of the person who puts the figures in the spreadsheet.

Semantic sophistry. Asian-heritage women choose to stay in abusive
environments. If some of them don't understand enough about British
culture or the English language to go to the police or social services
before they reach the stage of stepping in front of a train, the
questions to be asked are why don't they understand those things?

I've read that these are educated women imported from the subcontinent
for arranged marriages to young men who turn out not to live up to their
billing (less eductaed than claimed, or much older/uglier). Their
families would lose face if they returned home to India, and they have
no local support network here to help when they're bullied by their
mothers-in-law who treat them little better than slaves.