Men believe they are superior to women

Even as the police arrest their sons for violent criminal behaviour, some mothers attest to their goodness.

How many women with eyes wide open, having been warned, knowingly start a relationship with a man of dubious background? We live in a culture where the male gender is glorified.

Women are toys. Women are a distraction.

Women in TT are used and abused because the men are brainwashed into believing they are superior beings. This is our culture across all the races in TT .

Offend the man and your punishment may be plain and simple murder. Speaking the truth often offends.

I looked at the broadcast of the Prime Minister’s national conversation in Maloney on Monday and at no time did I get the impression that the PM intended to throw victims under the bus. I find it offensive that he should be asked to apologise for a remark that was taken out of context.

On checking on who TNT Patriots might be, I discovered that one Mala Mahabir who lives in Canada is the head of this organisation.

Womantra, registered abroad, only speaks up about violence against women in TT if they can get some mileage from our local media.

Former Port-of-Spain mayor Raymond Tim Kee was forced to resign because of an online petition from women who have never been to Trinidad. He too was taken out of context.

Why this playing of selfish anti-government politics while women are being murdered? Dismal personal choices regarding men friends as a pertinent cause of domestic violence cannot be swept under the carpet. It is said the Japanese pannist who was murdered last Carnival was an eight-time visitor to TT and obviously trusted her companions.

Having been brainwashed into believing they are infallible, our men can also be classed as victims.

The underachievers are always the most violent. Please note that it is the working class, less well educated women who are murdered first. They stay in violent relationships to feed their children.

Forget the politics of blame. All women need to look in the mirror.

Lynette Joseph Diego Martin