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ifeminists July 28, 2009 Trudy Schuett |
Domestic Violence 101. The personal v. the political The 2005 document put out by the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence with federal funding is entitled, Action for Social Change. There are sources cited that once again blame men and the "patriarchy" for the continuing oppression of women.  |
ifeminists August 27, 2002 Wendy McElroy |
Abused Women Have Choices ...Part of the standard view is: Women who "stay" have been brainwashed, and so are not responsible for that decision; and, leaving the relationship is always the right choice. I dispute both claims....  |
ifeminists November 10, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Domestic Violence: Behind the Stereotypes Male and same-sex victims, victims of one-time abuse... these people are being ignored or damaged by the current approach to domestic violence. There is no excuse for ignoring the reality of victims who need desperately to be heard.  |
ifeminists May 11, 2008 Wendy McElroy |
A Feminist Defense of Men's Rights Women are individuals and anything that weakens individual rights based on a shared humanity harms women as much as men.  |
ifeminists March 9, 2005 Trudy W. Schuett |
Everybody Deserves Better Allowing prejudicial, deeply biased and regressive domestic violence programs to continue unchecked will only serve to add to the numbers on the welfare rolls, in the jails and under the care of government-sponsored child protective agencies.  |
Reason April 2004 Cathy Young |
Abuse Revisited A feminist challenges the conventional wisdom about domestic violence. Mills concludes that using the "big stick" of the law as our dominant (or only) response to domestic violence ill-serves both women and men.  |
ifeminists December 14, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Don't Jail Domestic Violence Victims No one should be put in jail for being beaten up and, then, refusing to talk about it. Any system that imposes this punishment upon a victim is wrong on its face. And in its heart.  |
ifeminists April 7, 2004 George Rolph |
The Anatomy of Abuse This article hopes to be an aid towards helping us all understand the nature of domestic abuse and those who perpetrate or encourage it.  |
ifeminists December 29, 2004 Ray Blumhorst |
Make the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Gender Inclusive, or Dump It! The exclusion of male victims from the help they should be receiving from domestic violence law is a cycle of endless battering that has been created by VAWA to endlessly torture the minds, bodies, and spirits of countless innocent men.  |
ifeminists November 26, 2002 Wendy McElroy |
Feminist Fighting: Aren't We All Women? How do you view women who say they've been battered by their husbands or sexually harrassed? Do you feel a stab of skepticism at the accusation and wonder whether the man involved will be treated fairly in court? If so, you may be experiencing a consequence of PC feminism.  |
ifeminists August 31, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Gender Bias in Domestic Violence Treatment The oldest battered-women's shelter in New England is setting precedent and making many feminists nervous in the process -- by launching a "gender-neutral" search for a new executive director.  |
ifeminists September 24, 2009 Trudy Schuett |
Your taxes encourage violence v. men Time and again, the feminist scenario of domestic violence fails to stand up to scrutiny, since there was never any substance behind the notion that all domestic violence is politically motivated.  |
ifeminists October 1, 2009 Carey Roberts |
Partner Abuse Industry Flirts with a Hateful Agenda Each year, over one million Americans are hit with a trivial or false accusation of domestic violence.  |
Reason February 2003 Cathy Young |
Consciousness Raising 101 Inside the gender studies classroom  |
ifeminists September 7, 2005 Carey Roberts |
How Will We Cure the Radical Feminist Cancer? Once we challenge the feminist cultural hegemony and remind them how many privileges and advantages the average American woman enjoys, the gender warriors may come to realize that much of their sense of oppression is self-inflicted.  |
ifeminists October 20, 2004 Tom James |
The Invisible Victims of Domestic Violence As a culture, we prefer to make male victims the subject of levity and jest, not offer them help. Mostly, though, we would prefer to believe that they simply do not exist.  |
Salon.com January 26, 2000 Cathy Young |
Out with the old and out with the new Feminism of every stripe has failed. It's time for a gender equality movement.  |
ifeminists November 2, 2006 McCormick & Sacks |
October's Domestic Violence Awareness Month Ignores Many Victims Current DV policies are so at odds with research and reality that many domestic violence researchers and treatment providers signed a letter urging the California legislature to stop the state's policy of excluding male victims and their children from DV services.  |
ifeminists December 9, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Ask Before You Give I intend to give generously to domestic violence shelters this Christmas, but with discretion. The amount I can donate is limited and many domestic violence shelters promote policies I don't support. These are the questions I will politely ask.  |
ifeminists January 19, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Complex Issue Requires Complex Solutions There is no 'one-size-fits-all' solution to a complex and varied phenomenon like domestic violence. Answers will vary depending on specific situations. Both men and women fall victim to domestic violence.  |
ifeminists May 18, 2009 Wendy McElroy |
Consider Erin Pizzey Feminism is dying not from a backlash but from an orthodoxy that cannot tolerate real discussion...and never could.  |
ifeminists July 8, 2003 George Rolph |
A Sensible Definition of Domestic Abuse Domestic abuse is people hurting people, over time, for the purposes of controlling them. Unlike British Government minister Jack Straw's definition that "Domestic violence is men hitting women," this definition seems a little more thoughtful and intelligent.  |
ifeminists December 16, 2003 Ray Blumhorst |
Hard Won Gains at What, or Whose Expense An attack on the "militant feminist catch phrase" "Men are trying to roll back the hard fought gains women have made"  |
ifeminists February 20, 2008 WolfmanMac |
Friends? We Don't Need No Stinking Friends Decent men in the men's movement must speak out and take an uncompromising stand against those within the movement that give it a bad name.  |
ifeminists June 3, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Gender Issues Impacted by Masculinists Gender issues are being rocked by masculinism -- sometimes called men's rights or the Men's Movement.  |
Salon.com March 14, 2000 Foote Sweeney & Smith |
Sisterhood is powerless How feminism has made men's lives safer -- and women's more dangerous.  |
ifeminists June 7, 2006 Carey Roberts |
Is Feminism a Mental Disorder? Feminism in America has morphed from an enlightened social movement into high-octane mass hysteria, shunning reason and fact in its compulsive quest to flog the long-dead horse of patriarchy.  |
ifeminists February 18, 2003 Glenn Sacks |
Valentine's Day & the Gender Wars Part of the division between men and women is due to women's legitimate grievances. But much of it is also caused by men's resentment that the very real problems and disadvantages they face as husbands, partners and fathers have been ignored by the media, our lawmakers and by society as a whole.  |
ifeminists July 8, 2003 Carey Roberts |
Lament of the Single Woman Radical feminists have succeeded in tilting the balance of marital power strongly in favor of women. And men, fearing that marriage may turn out to be a raw deal, have simply made other plans.  |
ifeminists September 30, 2003 George Rolph |
An Open Letter to the Police Commissioner of Great Britain As someone who mans a 24-hour help line in the UK for male victims of domestic violence, I am struck by the number of men who tell me that the police refuse to either take their complaints seriously, ignore them entirely, arrest the victim or fail to arrest the perpetrator.  |
ifeminists March 5, 2007 Teri Stoddard |
Can't Find a Husband? Men who embrace fatherhood are shown their time and influence aren't important. Our government does this by enforcing child support orders while not enforcing visitation orders.  |
ifeminists July 19, 2006 Erin Pizzey |
Domestic Violence Is Not A Gender Issue The idea that the family is a danger to women and children has destroyed much of our traditional concepts of marriage. The feminisation of the family and Western society has caused men to become outcasts and a source of ridicule in their children's eyes.  |
American Family Physician July 15, 2002 John W. Thompson, Jr. |
A Pregnant Woman Victimized by Physical Abuse Domestic violence in the United States is a problem of enormous proportions and represents a significant health concern. Here's how a physician can respond.  |
ifeminists October 1, 2002 Wendy McElroy |
'Restorative Justice' Offers Battered Women More Options Some victims need an alternate method of handling domestic violence, which allows them to preserve their relationships while preventing future violence.  |
ifeminists July 15, 2003 George Rolph |
The State Of Feminism Today Feminism today has become a bastardisation of the movement's earliest ideals of removing from society those things which discriminate against the female gender in particular and both genders in general.  |
ifeminists March 29, 2008 Terri Lynn Tersak |
Congressional Guidelines for Abusing Women This report examines the many problems the author finds inherent in local and national services and legal protections that are designed to help victims of domestic abuse.  |
ifeminists September 30, 2003 Carey Roberts |
Domestic Violence Campaign Not About Helping Women Domestic Violence Awareness Month is an excuse for radical feminists to perpetrate their myths that domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions in this country, that men are always the brutal perpetrators, and women the inevitable victims.  |
ifeminists June 24, 2003 George Rolph |
Reassembling the Truth While the Observer (UK) newspaper should be applauded for having the courage to publish a piece on husband abuse, they score no points for cutting edge and truthful journalism. I want to dismantle this article and report the real facts behind this facile piece.  |
ifeminists June 7, 2006 McCormick & Sacks |
AB 2051 Moves California in Wrong Direction on Domestic Violence The California Assembly just passed a misguided bill which puts ideology over evidence by reiterating the state's mulish definition of domestic violence as something which only women suffer.  |
ifeminists February 23, 2005 Ray Blumhorst |
For Battered Men their Batterings Never End The pervasiveness of gender feminist ideology in indoctrination sessions (classrooms) on college campuses is only the tip of the iceberg of the influence that gender feminist dogma, such as that concerning domestic violence, exerts over societal institutions.  |
ifeminists May 16, 2007 Leving & Sacks |
Equal Rights Amendment Yes, 'Women's Equality Amendment' No Unfortunately, the bill's sponsors have changed the ERA's name to the Women's Equality Amendment. There's a major problem with that, because when considering injustices based on gender, today men and fathers can lay claim to many of them.  |
ifeminists December 1, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Domestic Violence Industry: Hateful Domestic violence ads continue to spur controversy over their gender-bias.  |
ifeminists June 29, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Congress Should Kill Discriminatory Domestic Violence Act The Violence Against Women Act has become a flashpoint for the men's rights advocates who see it instead as the living symbol of anti-male bias in law.  |
ifeminists May 21, 2008 Carey Roberts |
I-VAWA: Bigotry and Contempt at Taxpayer Expense The domestic violence industry needs a top-to-bottom house-cleaning.  |
ifeminists September 15, 2004 Ray Blumhorst |
Would You Help a Domestic Violence Shelter That Helps Men? Is being told to "get tough or die" really the message we want to see one ot the greatest societies on earth send to half its population (men) who are daily denied the domestic violence services they need and deserve?  |
ifeminists September 8, 2004 George Rolph |
Relative Injuries Large parts of the abuse industry are in existence to abuse men. If that were not so, would they not be equally disgusted with the abuse of men as they seem to be over the abuse of women?  |
ifeminists October 2, 2007 Richard L. Davis |
Dating Violence/Abuse Hypocrisy Equitable dating/domestic violence/abuse prevention and intervention efforts for females and males will reduce the victimization of both females and males.  |
ifeminists May 6, 2003 George Rolph |
Unrecognized Abuse Abusive women know the bond that a good father will have with his kids. For an abuser, this bond is a perfect weapon and can be wielded with devastating results.  |
ifeminists August 15, 2009 Teri Stoddard |
Dirty little secrets of domestic violence programs Only one in ten battered women's shelter residents was a victim of violence. Even the White House acknowledges that current programs are failing.  |
ifeminists November 4, 2002 Tresa McBee |
Politics of abuse - why you don't hear about men October marks Domestic Violence Awareness Month, but it isn't likely to mark much awareness of abused men.  |