Why is the most influential person in the domestic violence industry never spoken about?

Why is the woman who opened the world’s first refuge for women, and wrote the first book on domestic violence, erased from the history books?

Why has the woman, who took domestic violence out from behind closed doors, and made it a national emergency, been living in the shadows of what is now a hundred million dollar industry?

Why are plaudits, cash, and awards, rained down upon those who stole the limelight from her; six figure salaries dished out to the ones who highjacked her movement, and exiled her from her own charity?

Why is Erin Pizzey not a household name?

Well, I’lll tell you why….

She was erased and excommunicated because she stood up for truth, calling out “the big lie” of ‘gendered violence’, to assert again, and again – for half a century – that women are no less violent in relationships, and men are no less deserving of support.

It was a choice that changed the course of her entire life.

No longer the darling of a nation, but an outcast, the subject of picketing and violent threats.

Erin literally started the domestic violence industry from her own house: she took in the first woman (Cathy) to her spare bedroom, and over the decades undoubtedly saved the lives of thousands of women and children.

Yet she spent years with bomb squads going through her mail, and police escorts, as she travelled the country.

Her greatest crime was caring as much about men as she did women.

Erin Pizzey, a national treasure, is now living on financial support, in a one bed attic conversion, a status far below what she deserves, and a name too few are aware of.

But we can talk about her here.

Her wonderful work, and the countless many she saved.

So have you heard her story?

And if not, why not?

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2024-06-22