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February
The Domestic Violence Industry’s War on
Men
Barbara Kay, an outspoken Canadian voice of reason,
illustrates how a single event in Montreal —
the incident at École Polytechnique in 1989
when 14 female engineering students were gunned
down by a sociopath — was hijacked by radical
feminists as an example of all men’s violence
toward all women.
Writing at Pajamas Media, she says:
Feminists everywhere in the West appropriated
its emotive themes to lend greater credence to an
already widespread pernicious tripartite myth:
namely, that all men — the
“patriarchy” — are inherently prone
to violence against women, that all women are
potential victims of male aggression, and that
female violence against men is never unprovoked,
but always an act of self-defense against overt or
covert male aggression.
The unspoken corollary to these falsehoods is
that violence perpetrated against males, whether by
other males or by females, is deemed unworthy of
official recognition or more than minimal legal
redress, and that while female suffering must be
acknowledged as socially intolerable, male
suffering may not make a parallel moral claim.
In fact, as any number of peer-reviewed research
and government statistics make clear, although
women are far more likely to report domestic abuse,
equal numbers of men and women experience some form
of DV during their lifetimes; men and women
initiate abuse in equal measure; and far from any
inherent “patriarchal” instinct to
control women, DV — in Judeo-Christian culture
at any rate — is almost always attributable to
individual psychological dysfunction (see Abusegate
RADAR report).
For the overwhelming majority of boys and men
who harbor no ill feelings toward women and no wish
to control them — indeed, whose impulses are
largely chivalric; feminists have never explained
why all those “patriarchal” and
“controlling” men on the Titanic died
after voluntarily ceding the lifeboats to women and
children — the social and cultural fallout
from feminist misdirection about DV beggars any
honest observer’s descriptive powers to
summarize. The unjust loss of children in biased
family courts under judges trained by feminist DV
“experts,” lives ruined by unchallenged
false allegations of abuse, men’s
ineligibility for psychological and logistical
services lavishly provided for women — these
are just a few of the human rights abuses men
routinely endure because of DV industry myths.
At the heart of the myth-propagation problem is
the 1991-initiated White Ribbon Campaign ,
impulsively organized by leftist male Canadian
politicians eager to ingratiate themselves with
politically influential feminists in the hysterical
wake of the tragedy. The “educational”
and commemorative campaign, which rapidly spread to
57 countries, is based on scaremongering falsehoods
perpetrated by feminists pulling the communications
levers of the DV industry, such as the canard that
one in three (in some accounts, four) women will be
a victim of male aggression in her lifetime, or
that spousal homicide is the leading cause of death
for women (in fact, it is not even on the list of
leading causes).
Credible information on DV is easily accessed,
but the largely liberal media compliantly channel
the disingenuous “findings” and
“reports” churned out by hopelessly
biased advocacy groups, whose methodology does not,
to put it kindly, meet the gold standard of
community-based, peer-reviewed research, or who use
definitional ruses, or who collect only
male-on-female violence information, or who
withhold data on female violence — and I could
go on.
The controversial and irrefragably anti-male
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is coming up for
renewal in Congress this year. VAWA partakes of
exactly the same philosophy as the White Ribbon
Campaign and doubtless owes its provenance in large
part to the Montreal Massacre juggernaut.
Is there hope for a breakthrough in correcting
the public’s perception on DV, the necessary
precursor to a gender-neutral approach to support
for DV victims by policymakers? One encouraging
indicator has surfaced this month in the form of a
high-profile Abusegate campaign, organized by a
coalition of groups and individuals working to
reform domestic violence laws. The campaign will
include a concentrated lobbying effort on Capitol
Hill explaining how flawed information leads to
flawed public policy. It will also feature a series
of radio interviews with internationally respected
domestic violence expert Dr. Donald Dutton of the
University of British Columbia, author of
Rethinking Domestic Violence. * But
Abusegate’s most tangible contribution to
public exposure of the DV industry’s willful
deception of policymakers and the public is
encapsulated in a scrupulously referenced special
report drawn up by a reliable research group, RADAR
(Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting):
Fifty Domestic Violence Myths .
The report deserves widespread distribution in
the media, as well as in political, educational,
and legal circles. It completely debunks the
received wisdom on many aspects of DV. For example,
it tells us that: women are as likely as men to be
controlling; fewer than 1% of hospital visits by
women — not 22% as often touted — are
attributable to DV; the actual annual number of
rapes reported by the FBI is 90,427, a tenth the
number claimed by feminists; 71% of children killed
by one parent were killed by their mothers; and 46
other little-known facts the DV industry would
prefer you didn’t know.
This report will not have relevance for
everyone: it is only for men and for those women
who have, or have had, or may have in the future
kind thoughts for a father or male partner or
brother or son or son-in-law or male friend or,
indeed, any man who has, or may someday, contribute
something positive to their lives or to the lives
of those they love. So as I say, this report may
not be relevant to you, in which case you should
not feel obligated to pass it along to anyone else.
For those to whom it is relevant, you owe it to the
men in your life to share it with others.
Be sure to read the whole thing!
* Dr. Dutton’s radio appearances will occur
this month — should have already started.
©2010, Trudy W.
Schuett
* * *
Trudy W.
Schuett is an Arizona-based online veteran with 10
years in cyberspace; an author and multiblogger.
She has held workshops on blogging, writing, and
promo for writers at the New Communications Forum
and Arizona Western College, and has participated
in world blogging events such as Global PR Blog
Week. She is also an advocate for unserved victims
of domestic violence. She is is the author of three
novels, two how-to books and eight blogs. Note:
Books are currently out of print, but two appear in
blog form. She currently publishes New Perspectives
on Partner Abuse at partnerabuse.com.
She has a video at her site that provides a look
into the circumstance of a few men. Entitled,
Husband
Beaters
It is in five parts and was part of the Secret
Lives of Women series on the WE network. She
publishes the AZ
Rural Times 
and New
Perspectives on Partner
Abuse ,
she is on Twitter
and Facebook
She lives in Yuma AZ, with her husband, Paul.
desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/
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