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$4 Billion Abuse Industry Rooted in
Deceptions and Lies
Erin Pizzey is a genial woman with snow-white hair,
cherubic cheeks, and an easy smile. It wasn’t
always that way. The daughter of an English
diplomat, she founded the world’s first
shelter for battered women in 1971. To her
surprise, she discovered that most of the women in
her shelter were as violent as the men they had
left.
When Pizzey wrote a book revealing this sordid
truth, she encountered a firestorm of protest.
“Abusive telephone calls to my home, death
threats, and bomb scares, became a way of living
for me and for my family. Finally, the bomb squad
asked me to have all my mail delivered to their
head quarters,” she would later reveal.
According a recent report, the domestic violence
industry continues to engage in information control
tactics, spewing a dizzying series of half-truths,
white lies, and outright prevarications. The
report, “Fifty Domestic Violence Myths,”
is published by RADAR, Respecting Accuracy in
Domestic Abuse Reporting: www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARreport-50-DV-Myths.pdf
How often have you heard the mantra-like claim,
“domestic violence is all about power and
control”? That’s code for the feminist
dogma that domestic violence is rooted in
men’s insatiable need to dominate and oppress
the women in their lives.
And the obvious solution to partner abuse?
Eliminate the patriarchy!
I know it all sounds far-fetched, but
that’s what the gender ideologues who get
their funding from the Violence Against Women Act
(VAWA) believe. And no surprise these programs have
been an abject failure. As Dr. Angela Parmley of
the Department of Justice once admitted, “We
have no evidence to date that VAWA has led to a
decrease in the overall levels of violence against
women.”
Once you blame the whole problem of partner
abuse on patriarchal dominance, the women who
proudly call themselves the “VAWA Mafia”
find themselves compelled to dress up the fable
with a series of corollary myths.
Here are some examples: When a woman attacks her
boyfriend, claim she was only acting in
self-defense. Shrug off her assault with the
“He had it coming” line. Aver her short
stature prevents her from ever hurting her man. Or
assert she grew up in an abusive household, as if
that somehow lets her off the hook.
Above all, the ideologues will never admit that
partner violence is more common among lesbians than
heterosexual couples. Just consider the case of
Jessica Kalish, the 56-year-old Florida woman who
was stabbed 222 times last October with a Phillips
screwdriver wielded by ex-girlfriend Carol Anne
Burger. But no one dared call it “domestic
violence.”
Once you begin to play tricks with the truth,
you need to invent ever grander prevarications. So
sit back and get ready for a good chuckle, because
there’s not a shred of truth to any of these
claims regularly put forth by the domestic abuse
industry:
1. A marriage license is a hitting license.
(Truth is, an intact marriage is the safest place
for men and women alike.)
2. Domestic violence is the leading cause of
injury to women. (The leading causes of female
injury are unintentional falls, motor vehicle
accidents, and over-exertion. Domestic violence is
not even on the list.)
3. The March of Dimes reports that battering is
the leading cause of birth defects. (The March of
Dimes has never done such a study.)
4. Women never make false allegations of
domestic violence. (That’s the biggest whopper
of all.)
5. Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest day of the
year for violence against women. (Will the abuse
industry never tire of its demagoguery?)
These are just five of the 50 domestic violence
myths documented in the RADAR report. As former
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once deadpanned,
“You’re entitled to your own opinions;
you’re not entitled to your own facts.”
Hopefully the $4 billion partner abuse industry
will begin to pay attention.
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Carey
Roberts probes and lampoons political correctness.
His work has been published frequently in the
Washington Times, Townhall.com, LewRockwell.com,
ifeminists.net, Intellectual Conservative, and
elsewhere. He is a staff reporter for the New Media
Network. You can contact him at E-Mail
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