Political Cowardice

The “men bad, women good” mantra fed to us by domestic violence prevention advocates, women’s shelter organizations and other well meaning “women’s rights” organizers, feminist groups, and politicians are just plain wrong.  They are relying on incorrect data.

- by Mike Truman

The domestic violence claims, mostly by feminist groups, is turning out to be a fraud based upon faulty data, closed minds, blacklisting and retaliation very similar to the global warming hoax.

After seeing the disturbing ads in the post below from the Family Violence Prevention Fund, I have begun doing some research and have found some alarming data.

It turns out that women are more likely to 1) assault first; 2) use a weapon; 3)  to abuse children.

Women are as least as likely to be the perpetrator of violence as they are the victim.

According to FAMILY VIOLENCE A report from:  Family Resources & Research

“Abuse shelter advocates have severely distorted the picture and deliberately produce fraudulent statistics and dis-information. Even when they quote well-grounded statistics, they misuse the information. Here is an example: One of the favorite statistics quoted by abuse shelter advocates is that a woman is the victim of spousal violence every 15 seconds. This statistic is deduced from a well conducted piece of research which was published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, a respected professional journal for marriage and family therapists. The Abuse Shelter advocates arrived at this figure by using one of the conclusions of the study, i.e.; 1.8 million women suffer an assault from a husband or boyfriend per year. What abuse shelter advocates always fail to report is another finding of the same study, i.e.; 2 million men are assaulted by a wife or girl friend per year, which translates as, a man is the victim of spousal violence every 14 seconds.”

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Towing the “party line”:

“The typical response of the abuse shelter workers upon first hearing the results of the scientific studies is to “shoot the messenger”.  You can almost hear their minds snap closed. There is an almost cult like “party line” among victim advocates. Much of the belief system of their “cult” has no more scientific or rational basis than that of fanatical religious cults.”

According to the report’s author:

“Men are responsible for most of the violence which occurs outside the home. However, when 54% of women in lesbian relationships acknowledge violence in their current relationship, vs. only 11% of heterosexual couples reporting violence, I realized that domestic violence is not an outgrowth of male biology.”

Experts who have attempted to speak out and set the record straight have been threatened with violence, blacklisted and more.

“Criticisms have ranged from personally attacking the researchers, to more academic efforts directed at attacking the work itself by denying the validity of the reports, to an outright defense of the violent behavior of women or otherwise minimizing its significance.”

According to a detailed report in the Florida State University Law Review entitled DISABUSING THE DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: HOW WOMEN BATTER MEN AND THE ROLE OF THE FEMINIST STATE by: Linda Kelly states:

Over the last twenty-five years, leading sociologists have repeatedly found that men and women commit violence at similar rates.

And this startling conclusion:

“… the literature consistently suggests that only men commit domestic violence. Either explicitly, or more often implicitly, through the failure to address the subject in any objective manner, female violence is denied, defended and minimized.

I assert in Part III that today’s refusal to react is a product of the feminist control over the issue of domestic violence. Female violence presents both a threat to feminist theory as well as to the practice of domestic violence law. Notwithstanding such concerns, today’s myopic understanding of domestic violence has serious implications.”

We have to be always on guard against accepting the popular wisdom, no matter the source, I’m am even skeptical of the reports I site.

Drawing on my own professional experience in this area, I was always suspicious of claims that domestic violence was mostly men bad women victim, when what I saw in the field was mostly the opposite.

Do your own research, don’t take my word for it, let me know what you find.

Note:  Each day I get more and more info on this subject, someone just sent me this:

Seven Key Facts About Domestic Violence

Here is a list of studies:  References

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Mike Truman
Decline of the Family, Media Bias, National Political
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