Many US women abused by men, study finds (A Lesson in Bias)

Reuters ^ | May 17, 2006 | Reuters

[okiecon]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 40 percent of women surveyed in the Seattle area reported they had been physically or psychologically abused by their husbands, dates or boyfriends, researchers said on Wednesday.

[Robwin]

The very idea is impossible over on what we Washingtonians call the West Side. The people over there are some of the most progressive, caring, sensitive, compassionate people outside The People's Republic of Massachusetts and the San Francisco/ Beserkley corridor. Just ask 'em. The authors of the study must have gotten the location wrong, and really meant somewhere in Utah, or Texas, or Alabama, or some such.

[Incorrigible]

This is Seattle we're talking about here. Home of the highest percentage of white, single mothers and the highest suicide rate. These women were messed up even before the invasion of Californians.

Seattle is a place people from other parts of the country run away to inorder to escape the demons of their past only to find the demons are right at home there.

[rocksblues]

I know but didn't want to be seen as an abuser of power. /S

[TheWasteLand]

Seattle, also known as Leninville.

[derllak]

Somebody forgot to give you a "go directly to jail" card!
You got lucky THAT time, buster! :P

[rocksblues]

You know what you are correct. I am lucky she never used the I'll tell my father card.

[llevrok]

I'm a westsider too. Olympia no less. Well, let's clarify that. I sleep in Olympia but avoid the town when I am not at work (wife and daughter love it tho...)

Just give me Colville, Wawawai or Colfax and I'd be happy as a clam half hour before being dug.

[Chanticleer]

I posted this on another thread about this study. I'm not defending the study or its methods, but there sure seems to be a rush to judgment to say it's totally invalid.

My dear husband would never abuse me, (no real man ever would), but I was a victim of acquaintance rape in college. In the short time I've been on FR, I've read a lot of comments by women -- strong, courageous women, not whiners -- who've suffered terrible abuse by husbands and boyfriends . . . even by men who call themselves conservative and Christian.

I'm not crazy about lumping verbal abuse into the mix, but I think the study shows that abuse of women is still an issue in our society. I don't think it's an issue we can ignore, even if it doesn't apply to our own personal relationships -- especially if we have daughters or granddaughters

[burzum]

This survey is BS and has been debunked at Sound Politics.

[derllak]

Keep those hands in your pockets and you'll be fine! :)

[lOKKI]

I tried keeping my hands in my pockets but then she complained I was abusing her by not helping to clean up around the house.....

[neocon1984]

As a psychologist, I am quite familiar with this type of agenda-driven "research". Basically you take a large phenomenon (e.g., the psychological abuse that everyone has to deal with in life), cut a little piece of it out and attach it to your favorite oppressed group.

VIOLA! You have discovered a new phenomenon that explains why the members of the oppressed group need changes in social policy and increased government funding to improve their lot in life.

To call it intellectually dishonest, it to give the researchers credit for scientific intellect they do not possess. They are so blinded by their moral vanity that they lack the ability to think in an objective manner.

[Chanticleer]

Well, it seems that way sometimes, I'm sure. Women can be abusive to men. But it's sort of like the issue with dogs. Little yappy dogs are more likely to bite than a big dog, but far less likely to do serious damage.

Every now and then, I'll sneak up on dear Mr. Chanti to give him a little tickle. I almost always regret it, because no matter what I do, he always gets the better of me. I'm no dainty little woman, but if he ever really wanted to do some damage to me, or if he ever lost control of himself with me, I wouldn't stand a chance. It's a good thing I know I'm completely safe with him, and he would only use his strength to defend me.

But you're right -- there should be no double-standards. A female teacher assaulting a male student is just as wrong as a male teacher assaulting a female student, racism is wrong no matter who's the target, and abuse is abuse, regardless of the gender of the perpetrator or the victim.

[derllak]

Did you try crying and telling her how hard you already work? That usually does the trick! :)

[LtKerst]

I have no doubt the women there feel abused

Picture a fat saggy breasted Hag in Birkenstocks, Nagging
you endlessly...smelling like Incense and B.O. who hasent cleaned the house in Years..and hasent bathed in as many Years.....

Now thats "Abuse"

You Know?....Maybe they Dress and smell this way to offend US? sort of "Hippy Psy-Ops"????

I demand a Grand Jury investigation! Led By John "I'm a Hipster" Kerry and Teddy "Party-Boy" Kennedy.......


they can hook up with Al "Greatfull Dead" Gore and Jane
" I'm Sorry,No I'm Not" Fonda. for a Kangaroo Court Trial

with Fake Vietnam Vets Lying and saying they saw Conservative
"attrocities" perpetrated on Washington State Liberal Women.

It's Miller time!!

[JCEccles]

More than 40 percent of women surveyed in the Seattle area reported they had been physically or psychologically abused by their . . . dates . . . researchers said on Wednesday.

One wonders whether the researchers were taking pains to screen out Seattle's lesbian population.

These kinds of studies are almost always a crock, conducted in a manner designed to confirm a preconceived bias.

[burzum]

Quote from Sound Politics:

Well, here we go again, thanks to a random survey of 3,429 Puget Sound women in 2003-04, conducted by the Group Health Center for Health Studies, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center; and the University of Washington. The researchers found that 92 percent reported not having suffered physical violence at the hands of their partners in the last year, while 8 percent did. However, despite this data point, other findings lead one of the "scientists" to declare in this Seattle Times article that domestic violence against women is "an enormous problem that's buried in our society", cutting across all demographic groups.

The lynchpin of the piece is that 44 percent of the women surveyed reported having suffered physical or verbal abuse from a partner or lover "at some point in their adult lives."

[Centurion2000]

reported they had been physically or psychologically abused by their husbands, dates or boyfriends

Sorry, I am not buying these numbers. Give us a breakdown of physical versus psychological. Hell, breaking up with a girlfriend or being pressured to go to bed with a date could be considered psychological abuse these days.

[hocndoc]

Here you go
http://www.ncdsv.org/publications_malevictims.html

I just wrote a long post on the Violence Against Women Act for my blog.
http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/2006/05/violence-against-women-act.html

[lOKKI]

Did you try crying and telling her how hard you already work? That usually does the trick! :)

Wow.. thanks! I'm writing that down (as soon as I can get away from the wife long enough to take my hands out of my pockets.

(Oh, do I actually have to get an actual job to use this line?)