Male State Duma deputies were outraged that women have partners
Russian State Duma deputy Oksana Pushkina received criticism from three male colleagues at once for using the word “partner” when speaking about domestic violence.
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“600 thousand women in Russia are subject to violence from a partner every year. Every third Russian woman is regularly beaten by her partner. Up to 3 thousand children per year die at the hands of their parents. Our national traditions: spanking or pulling the hair – need to be changed,” Pushkina said.
A faction colleague and also a former TV presenter, Pyotr Tolstoy, made a “stylistic remark” to Pushkina.
“Since we are discussing domestic violence, the word “partners”, it seems to me, is inappropriate. We have civil and ordinary marriages. But 600 thousand women who suffer from their partners does not sound very good,” Tolstoy said.
Vitaly Milonov supported him: “We have husbands, grooms and all sorts of incomprehensible forms: lovers, cohabitants. There are no partners in Russian legislation. Either the husband, or the groom, or no one.”
Meanwhile, a discussion of love terminology was going on in the Presidium of the State Duma.
“Here Alexander Dmitrievich (Vice Speaker Zhukov - ed.) gives a completely radical interpretation. She has the right to life, but it’s better not to voice it,” speaker Vyacheslav Volodin summed up the dispute.
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