thedrifter
03-26-05, 08:14 AM
When Men Are Victims of Domestic Violence
March 26, 2005
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by Ray Blumhorst
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In a recent TV docudrama called Iron Jawed Angels, http://www.hbo.com/films/ironjawedangels/ the efforts of certain activist women to win the right to vote were detailed. Lucy Burns and Alice Paul were two key figures who diligently lobbied our nation to address its second-class treatment of women’s voting rights in the very early part of the 20th century. Around the time these events occurred, WWI broke out. In one scene from the movie, the women discussed the propriety of protesting for women’s suffrage at a time when our nation was at war. The women decided to do what was then deemed unpatriotic and continued their protests in front of our nations White House. As the movie depicted, many were opposed to these women on the issue of suffrage, but many others were offended by perceptions, that the protests of these women were insensitive to our nation at a time of national crisis (war).
Today protesting in time of war has become commonplace in America, although it seemed to reach a zenith during the Vietnam Conflict. Many Americans still believe criticism of policies and laws, at times of national crisis, to be inappropriate. However, free speech advocates support the constitutional right of America’s people to assemble peacefully, and to petition government for a redress of grievances, even when our nation is engaged in such difficult times.
Amendment I to the United States Constitution:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
Considering my own patriotic feelings in light of the statements above, it is with some chagrin that I come to a point in my life where I must emphatically say, “Shame on our social institutions for ‘battering’ men.” I do not say that lightly, but in all truth “battering” is the appropriate term to describe a society’s attitude, which results in abusiveness experienced by so great a number of its male citizenry. Given the domestic violence movement’s definition of “battering,” there is no other word more appropriate for the neglect, exploitation, emotional abuse and physical harm, that is routinely and unaccountably inflicted on males by everyone from social institutions to intimate partners. Even our nation’s current administration contributes directly to the unequal treatment that America's male citizenry must unfairly bear,
“’’President Bush's policy on women in ground combat takes just four words to articulate: "No women in combat."
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050111-101005-5277r.htm
Today as our men and women (mostly men) are again fighting and dying in this county’s war, our society faces an enemy at home that works to undermine the rights of all men and relegate them to the position of second-class citizens. Has “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” for every adult male citizen been put beneath that of other citizens? Are the fundamental rights of men to equal protection and equal justice trampled on for the sake of specially privileged class(es) of entitled citizens? Are men’s fundamental constitutional rights repeatedly and egregiously infringed upon?
While our fighting men are once again shouldering a vastly disproportionate burden of this nations national defense, anti-male ideologues work on the home front to portray all violence as a characteristic unique to the male sex. http://endabuse.org/bpi/
Of all our societal institutions, it appears to me that our nation’s domestic violence industry is one of the main culprits harming men (and veterans). Men are a very significant percentage of intimate partner violence, and simply ask for shelter and unbiased treatment when trying to flee intimate partner violence. When men are in a situation where they are victims of an abusive female intimate, they merely expect the same consideration as any other domestic violence victim, yet the domestic violence industry obstinately denies men shelter, and cannot bring itself to admit the truth, that women batter and injure men at very significant levels. http://www.women.ucla.edu/Newsletter/Shelters.htm It appears to me that the domestic violence industry’s obstinate denial, that male victims of domestic violence exist, contributes heavily to society’s wholesale acceptance of male battering in all areas. The negative effects, of the domestic violence industry’s anti-male bias to male victims of intimate partner violence, must not be underestimated.
With men comprising more than 97% of combats deaths, and women making up less than 3% of combat deaths, a woman made the front cover of Time magazine in 2003, standing in front of two men. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2003/200312225a.jpg Meanwhile, in anti-male bastions like California, men make up more than 16% of domestic violence victims by the gender feminist sympathetic, California Attorney General’s own official records (Table 2). http://caag.state.ca.us/cjsc/publications/misc/dv98.pdf
Men have virtually no shelter available to them in California, and no domestic violence funding to speak of. According to a large number of scholarly studies, men are a much higher percentage of domestic violence victims than 16.5%, but in our nation it is the female victims of domestic violence who get the billions, while men‘s needs get ignored.
I am saddened to see such gross hypocrisy on the part of our social institutions as once again this great nation prepares to kowtow to the gender feminist agenda, requesting reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Very soon VAWA activists will aggressively lobby for billions of dollars to address the exclusive need of intimate partner violence committed against women by men as if women were the only real victims. If you visit your favorite gender feminist web site you will already see the wheels turning to begin the lobbying effort. Once again, the same old gender feminist lies, and gender feminist “cooked” statistics will be marched out to show that women are almost all the victims of serious domestic violence - but they are not. The battering that men receive at the hands of women, http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm that is subsequently covered up by our nation’s misandrist, domestic violence movement, is an epidemic of shameful proportions. Such abusiveness stains our nations honor, and such dishonesty diminishes our nation’s integrity.
It is the height of hypocrisy, and political arrogance, to pretend that we care about the rights of people in foreign nations, then treat our own male citizenry as if they are predominately criminals, or “criminals waiting to happen,” when they are not.
If this rebuke were only addressing the plight of male victims of domestic violence at the hands of our nation’s domestic violence law, things would be bad enough, but things are worse, far worse than that. Thanks in large part to gender feminist ideology, society’s institutionalized hatred and bigotry against males is pervasive and deeply entrenched. Negative stereotyping of males bombards the male psyche from the time a male wakes up, until the time he goes to sleep, day after day.
The effects of all this misandry on men seeking to educate themselves, and build a life, have been worse than devastating.
continud...........
March 26, 2005
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by Ray Blumhorst
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In a recent TV docudrama called Iron Jawed Angels, http://www.hbo.com/films/ironjawedangels/ the efforts of certain activist women to win the right to vote were detailed. Lucy Burns and Alice Paul were two key figures who diligently lobbied our nation to address its second-class treatment of women’s voting rights in the very early part of the 20th century. Around the time these events occurred, WWI broke out. In one scene from the movie, the women discussed the propriety of protesting for women’s suffrage at a time when our nation was at war. The women decided to do what was then deemed unpatriotic and continued their protests in front of our nations White House. As the movie depicted, many were opposed to these women on the issue of suffrage, but many others were offended by perceptions, that the protests of these women were insensitive to our nation at a time of national crisis (war).
Today protesting in time of war has become commonplace in America, although it seemed to reach a zenith during the Vietnam Conflict. Many Americans still believe criticism of policies and laws, at times of national crisis, to be inappropriate. However, free speech advocates support the constitutional right of America’s people to assemble peacefully, and to petition government for a redress of grievances, even when our nation is engaged in such difficult times.
Amendment I to the United States Constitution:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
Considering my own patriotic feelings in light of the statements above, it is with some chagrin that I come to a point in my life where I must emphatically say, “Shame on our social institutions for ‘battering’ men.” I do not say that lightly, but in all truth “battering” is the appropriate term to describe a society’s attitude, which results in abusiveness experienced by so great a number of its male citizenry. Given the domestic violence movement’s definition of “battering,” there is no other word more appropriate for the neglect, exploitation, emotional abuse and physical harm, that is routinely and unaccountably inflicted on males by everyone from social institutions to intimate partners. Even our nation’s current administration contributes directly to the unequal treatment that America's male citizenry must unfairly bear,
“’’President Bush's policy on women in ground combat takes just four words to articulate: "No women in combat."
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050111-101005-5277r.htm
Today as our men and women (mostly men) are again fighting and dying in this county’s war, our society faces an enemy at home that works to undermine the rights of all men and relegate them to the position of second-class citizens. Has “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” for every adult male citizen been put beneath that of other citizens? Are the fundamental rights of men to equal protection and equal justice trampled on for the sake of specially privileged class(es) of entitled citizens? Are men’s fundamental constitutional rights repeatedly and egregiously infringed upon?
While our fighting men are once again shouldering a vastly disproportionate burden of this nations national defense, anti-male ideologues work on the home front to portray all violence as a characteristic unique to the male sex. http://endabuse.org/bpi/
Of all our societal institutions, it appears to me that our nation’s domestic violence industry is one of the main culprits harming men (and veterans). Men are a very significant percentage of intimate partner violence, and simply ask for shelter and unbiased treatment when trying to flee intimate partner violence. When men are in a situation where they are victims of an abusive female intimate, they merely expect the same consideration as any other domestic violence victim, yet the domestic violence industry obstinately denies men shelter, and cannot bring itself to admit the truth, that women batter and injure men at very significant levels. http://www.women.ucla.edu/Newsletter/Shelters.htm It appears to me that the domestic violence industry’s obstinate denial, that male victims of domestic violence exist, contributes heavily to society’s wholesale acceptance of male battering in all areas. The negative effects, of the domestic violence industry’s anti-male bias to male victims of intimate partner violence, must not be underestimated.
With men comprising more than 97% of combats deaths, and women making up less than 3% of combat deaths, a woman made the front cover of Time magazine in 2003, standing in front of two men. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2003/200312225a.jpg Meanwhile, in anti-male bastions like California, men make up more than 16% of domestic violence victims by the gender feminist sympathetic, California Attorney General’s own official records (Table 2). http://caag.state.ca.us/cjsc/publications/misc/dv98.pdf
Men have virtually no shelter available to them in California, and no domestic violence funding to speak of. According to a large number of scholarly studies, men are a much higher percentage of domestic violence victims than 16.5%, but in our nation it is the female victims of domestic violence who get the billions, while men‘s needs get ignored.
I am saddened to see such gross hypocrisy on the part of our social institutions as once again this great nation prepares to kowtow to the gender feminist agenda, requesting reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Very soon VAWA activists will aggressively lobby for billions of dollars to address the exclusive need of intimate partner violence committed against women by men as if women were the only real victims. If you visit your favorite gender feminist web site you will already see the wheels turning to begin the lobbying effort. Once again, the same old gender feminist lies, and gender feminist “cooked” statistics will be marched out to show that women are almost all the victims of serious domestic violence - but they are not. The battering that men receive at the hands of women, http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm that is subsequently covered up by our nation’s misandrist, domestic violence movement, is an epidemic of shameful proportions. Such abusiveness stains our nations honor, and such dishonesty diminishes our nation’s integrity.
It is the height of hypocrisy, and political arrogance, to pretend that we care about the rights of people in foreign nations, then treat our own male citizenry as if they are predominately criminals, or “criminals waiting to happen,” when they are not.
If this rebuke were only addressing the plight of male victims of domestic violence at the hands of our nation’s domestic violence law, things would be bad enough, but things are worse, far worse than that. Thanks in large part to gender feminist ideology, society’s institutionalized hatred and bigotry against males is pervasive and deeply entrenched. Negative stereotyping of males bombards the male psyche from the time a male wakes up, until the time he goes to sleep, day after day.
The effects of all this misandry on men seeking to educate themselves, and build a life, have been worse than devastating.
continud...........