Posted on 11/25/2011 9:32:12 AM PST by Cardhu
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The phrase "violence against women" calls for comment. It names the victims but not the perpetrators. The fact that men are mainly responsible for violent and health-harming behaviours, not only against women and children but also against each other, is so taken for granted that it slips beneath the radar of commentators and policymakers.
Take the riots of August this year. As the suspects were charged, considerable detail was published by the Ministry of Justice. The press focused on the age, ethnicity, neighbourhood and employment status of offenders. Yet by far the most dramatic divergence the statistics revealed was gender: 92% of the first 466 defendants were male. Something yet more significant went unremarked: of the 124 individuals charged with offences involving violence, all were male.
When information on a further 1,715 people charged with rioting offences was issued by the MoJ a month later, the focus was on the fact that 73% of the defendants had a previous caution or conviction. Few noted that the MoJ had chosen to focus only on male rioters; females were absent from these "average" recidivists. What we saw was a palpable concern with the youth, class and race of rioters but a lack of analysis of the key fact the statistics illustrate: the culpability, and cost, of masculinity. As so often, masculine antisocial behaviour was just the wallpaper.
In 1959 the social scientist and policy activist Barbara Wootton looked at the crime statistics and remarked that "if men behaved like women, the courts would be idle and the prisons empty". Half a century later the British Crime Survey and police crime figures bear her out. In 2009-10, men were perpetrators in 91% of all violent incidents in England and Wales.
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This is a blatant lie. When it comes to abuse of children and the elderly, women are the by far the greatest number of abusers. This is not a function of the sex but a function of the fact they are normally the care givers and have much more contact time with children and elderly parents
This is a blatant lie. When it comes to abuse of children and the elderly, women are the by far the greatest number of abusers. This is not a function of the sex but a function of the fact they are normally the care givers and have much more contact time with children and elderly parents
Men get raped in divorce courts every day.
You are correct. Look at any credible study on domestic violence. They find that about half of the violence is by men, about half by women. Now as far as crimes against strangers, young men are predominant.
There seems to be no in between.
“men are mainly responsible for violent and health-harming behaviors”
Apparently the authoresses have never watched a women’s prison movie.
What I wonder is how many women are ‘let go’ because of their gender. Or just told not to do ‘it’ anymore and go home.
I’ve seen it first hand myself, and that attitude is still prevalent because of gender based roles over the millenia. Feminists and their enablers are still trying to change society to reflect their own warped point of view. The side-effect of this is that many males are deprived of forceful male role-models and their un-social behaviors just amplify the feminists views of males.
I thought this was a given. Testosterone levels are higher in males. The judgement centers of the brain do not fully develop until age 25. What is so hard to understand? That is why traditionaly, young men are harnessed to the military - their hormones make them naturally agressive and they can follow orders without questioning.
Nor lived next door to a pair of lesbians.
Remember the bullshit from the 90's when college freshmen men had to sit with evil looking feminazis and listen to themselves being told they were "all potential rapists?"
Some poor saps even believed it.
Also, how much male violence is caused by women, either the woman saying "That #^%#! disrespected me! You take care of it or sleep on the couch!" or having the attitude that a man who doesn't bring in income (by whatever means necessary) doesn't get laid.
“The case we are making is that certain widespread masculine traits and behaviours are dangerous and costly both to individuals and society. They are amenable to purposeful change.”
The authors make no case and no proposals.
The sole purpose of the article is for two snotty, self-important, gender-righteous bitches to bash males and - by inference - present females as superior in every regard mentioned.
Women are not harmed by truly masculine men who know that one of their top 5 responsibilities in life is to be good to and for women.
Women are harmed by falsely masculine men who are too selfish and immature to think of anyone but themselves.
I had luch at juvenile hall a few days back and happened to sit with their therapist. He said that much of his therapy is around impulse and emotional self-control. For many of these violent youth, there is no filter or decisional pause between raw emotion and action.
He uses an experiential type of horse therapy to train them to control their emotional expression in actions. (As a prey animal, horses are very sensitive to human emotional states. Learning to read horse reactions can key into individual emotional states.)
I would observe that during my lifetime, many of the external societal rules and inhibitions that used to be in place, have been removed. The lines are not as clear as to what is appropriate behavior. The fact that domestic violence appears to be intergenerational - abused children grow up to be abusers, definitely blurs the lines further.
I cannot buy your argument that the woman “caused” the violence. Individuals are responsible for the actions they take. Mature adults have a choice as to how they act. If there is so little filter mechanism left, then they should try anger management courses or therapy or get out of the relationship.
A three-year-old boy was examining his testicles while taking a bath.
Mom” he asked, “are these my brains?”
“Not yet,” she replied.
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