[bckygldstn]

A similar initiative in NZ is Shielded Site [1].

Many large sites (eg The Warehouse [2]) participate by putting an icon at the bottom of their website. When clicked, a modal pops up with domestic abuse resources.

There’s a prominent exit button that closes the modal faster than a page navigation or finding the close tab button. Closing the popup returns you to a major website rather than a new tab page. And most importantly, your history contains no evidence you viewed the information.

[1] https://shielded.co.nz

[2] https://www.thewarehouse.co.nz

[stavros]

Unfortunately, clicking outside the modal (by far the biggest target to hit) doesn't actually close the modal, you need to click the (relatively small) close button.

[fennecfoxy]

As a Kiwi I miss the ware whare!

However I am extremely disappointed to see that the questions section of that starts out gender neutral and then basically does the usual "if you're a woman being abused by a man..."

There is still no support for male victims of domestic violence, whether the abuser is male or female. :/ it's not hard to cater to all cases, no wonder men don't bother - particularly when it's reported that male victims who resort to calling the police are most often the one handcuffed/detained when they arrive.

In before someone comments something that we've all heard before - it's not a competition, both women & men can be helped by the same system, regardless of supposed statistical likeliness, etc.

[pushupentry1219]

This is very fair. I have a close male friend who was the victim of intense domestic violence, physical, emotional and financial manipulation by his ex partner.

He talks about how child support staff (like reception for example) are, are not favouring of him. They see DV in his profile and assume he's the perpetrator instantly. He had to explain himself constantly, no doubt reliving trauma when he does.

He has been struggling with the courts to gain sole custody of his child.

And to top it all off all the posters around these places are, like you say, about women reaching out against their abusive male partners. Which IS an issue and IS statistically more likely. But you make a very good point about these systems being able to help both.

[KMag]

> .. women reaching out against their abusive male partners. Which IS an issue and IS statistically more likely.

Be careful about your phrasing there. I hope the implied subject on both sides of the "and" is different. Women being victims is an issue, and women reaching out is significantly more likely.

Women reaching out is (obviously) not an issue, but is statistically more likely. Alternately, women being victims is an issue, but the statistical likelihood of women being victims is unknown, and we have good reason to believe there is significant reporting bias.

[failingslowly]

Thank you, this needs to be repeated whenever this situation arises.

[eastbound]

It doesn’t matter, because even if men call for help, they won’t be helped.

There was a study in UK that if a man calls the police for domestic violence, there’s 56% chances the police only interviews the woman, and 23% chances he’s threatened of arrest (with, I think, 3% or 10% he’s actually led to the police station, I don’t remember the specifics, but still higher than not calling the police).

In France, a sad sentence of the government hotline “Female violence info” mentions that 10% calls are from men. For a hotline with “female” on it. The report continues that, since it’s only 10%, it’s still generally violence against women.

So yeah. Let’s be honest. Men better not end up in need of help.

[Throw38495]

UK minister is trying to close All female prisons. They are already only 4% of prisoners, but that is it enough. So much about accountability.

> men can be helped by the same system

That is just a misinformation! Calling police if abuser is a female, and you are a male, is a VERY bad idea.

Without police you only get some bruises. With police you get escorted in handcuffs in front entire neighbourhood, get fired from job, pay very expensive lawyers, get criminal record and possible prison time!

There is no way to fix that, just leave and drop all contact!

[echoangle]

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Shouldn’t this be addEventHandler? Otherwise, you can only have a single onload callback, right?

[marcosdumay]

It should be addEventHandler if you want to have more than one handler, yes.

Otherwise, it's fine.

[crote]

> There’s a prominent exit button that closes the modal faster than a page navigation or finding the close tab button.

I spent about 30 seconds figuring out how to close it. The icon in the top-right? No, that goes to the start page. Perhaps the icon in the top-left? No, that goes to the main menu. Clicking outside the modal, like most other websites? Nope, doesn't work.

Turns out the close button is the half-circle at the bottom of the modal, which is exactly the same color as the rest of the modal. It's pretty obvious once you see it, but it took me way too long to find. They should've either placed it in the top-right like literally every other close button ever, or made it bright red so it's impossible to miss.

[frereubu]

This is a great idea. I can't see the icon on the Warehouse site though - can you point me to it? How do people come to know about what the icon does?

[ClearAndPresent]

The icon is the teal/white circle just in line and to the right of the social media icons at the bottom of the page. I missed it on first glance and would have no idea what it did.

[frereubu]

Oh. I thought that was a light mode / dark mode button... Unlikely on a retail site I guess, but discoverability feels pretty bad. It's not like you couldn't just write "suffering from domestic abuse?" on there because the person doesn't have to click it in situations where that would be risky, and could come back later if they spot it at the wrong time.

[thecatspaw]

I think the idea is that you can tell people "hey, if you're suffering from abuse, you can check a websites footer for this icon to get help"

[GenerocUsername]

This has probably helped so many people.... In the imaginations of other people

[DiggyJohnson]

Are there any statistics, or frankly any reason, to expect this to have helped anybody?

I'm not trying to be dismissive, but I genuinely can't imagine this helping anyone. I am completely open to being wrong though.

[everforward]

I don’t know if you’re a kiwi but I assume that what it does is more common knowledge there.

I do think there is real value in being able to report domestic abuse without leaving an obvious paper trail. Call logs can be accessed by the account owner, I imagine a lot of people don’t know how to clear their history or aren’t confident enough they can do it correctly, etc.

It’s some small amount of peace of mind for victims who file reports, and with a cost of “adding a fake social link and a devs salary for a month” I’m pretty okay with it even if it literally only helps a single person. Bandwidth well spent.

[teruakohatu]

I had to hunt around to find it. Bottom right, aligned with "Corporate" in the footer links. Next to the Facebook icon.