'Toxic masculinity' phrase is slammed by Aboriginal domestic violence campaigner who fears for her four sons due to demonisation of men
- Campaigner against domestic violence slams the phrase 'toxic masculinity'
- Indigenous town councillor Jacinta Price said men faced enough pressure now
- The mother of four boys said males were no longer valued for their gender
- The federal election candidate has herself survived being in violent relationship
An Aboriginal campaigner against domestic violence has slammed the phrase 'toxic masculinity' to describe male behaviour.
Jacinta Price, who herself had been in a violent relationship, said demonising men did nothing to address the issue of assaults against women by their husbands and boyfriends.
'There's this talk of toxic masculinity all the time,' she told the ABC's The Drum program on Wednesday night.
An Aboriginal campaigner against domestic violence has slammed the phrase 'toxic masculinity' to describe male behaviour (pictured is Jacinta Price, right, with her musician husband Colin Lillie)
'Where do young men feel like they fit in now if they're not being valued as the male gender?'
Ms Price, a mother of four boys and an Alice Springs town councillor, said men were facing enough pressure.
'As a society, we've got a lot of pressure on our men in general,' she said.
'Being the mother of four sons, I think it's really important that everyone should understand they have a place in society, no matter what.'
Ms Price is married to Scottish-born musician Colin Lillie and ran unsuccessfully as a Country Liberal Party candidate at this month's federal election.
She achieved a swing of 2.8 per cent against long-time Labor member Warren Snowdon in the vast outback Northern Territory electorate of Lingiari.
Ms Price, a mother of four boys and an Alice Springs town councillor in central Australia, said men were facing enough pressure
The aspiring federal MP is also the daughter of former NT government minister Bess Price (centre with husband David Price), who in 2012 received an International Women's Courage Award from former U.S. president Barack Obama for her campaign against domestic violence in indigenous communities
The aspiring federal MP is the daughter of former NT government minister Bess Price, who in 2012 received an International Women's Courage Award from former U.S. president Barack Obama for her campaigns against domestic violence in indigenous communities.
Jacinta Price in March spoke to The Weekend Australian Magazine about surviving domestic violence in 2008 when she was in a new relationship previously.
She required stitches after having a lamp hurled at her.
Her latest comments about 'toxic masculinity' were made after feminist writer Clementine Ford slammed Studio 10 personality Joe Hildebrand for claiming not all men are to blame for violence against women.
Ms Price ran unsuccessfully as a Country Liberal Party candidate at this month's federal election (she is pictured in the Northern Territory with Prime Minister Scott Morrison)
Hildebrand had described as 'nonsensical' Victorian Assistant Police Commissioner Luke Cornelius's suggestion that violence against women was 'about men's behaviour, it's not about women's behaviour'.
The senior police commander made those comments about the death of Courtney Herron, 25, who on Saturday became the fourth young woman to be killed in a public place in Melbourne in less than a year.
Jacinta Price appeared on The Drum as feminist Clementine Ford defended the idea of highlighting male behaviour
Hildebrand said equating violence with masculinity and broadly blaming all men would do nothing to deter perpetrators of violence.
'I don't see how me reflecting on myself is going to stop women being bashed or murdered,' he told Network Ten's morning show this week.
Ford responded with a 10 Daily column arguing that highlighting male behaviour was not about blaming all men.
'Shifting the narrative away from women's behaviour and onto that of men isn't about blaming all men for the actions of a few,' she said.
'It's about recognising that the actions of a few stem from the culture of a gender-unequal world in which men are overwhelmingly the beneficiaries.'
A year ago, suicide prevention group Lifeline removed Ford as a keynote speaker after she tweeted 'kill all men' and 'all men must die'.
