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Women Predators: When Women Abuse Men
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| Dena Leichnitz
Posted on 08/04/2007 7:56:49 PM PDT by paltz
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posted on
08/04/2007 7:56:52 PM PDT
by
paltz
To: paltz
IBRTSB (in before reallocated to Smokey Backroom). :O)
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posted on
08/04/2007 7:59:48 PM PDT
by
jdm
To: paltz
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posted on
08/04/2007 8:06:26 PM PDT
by
Weeedley
(Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.)
To: paltz
From batteredmen.com
A Seattle therapist who convicted of assault and required to pay a $500 fine, perform 100 hours of community service and have absolutely no contact with the woman says:
I was dumbfounded from the very start of the incident," the man says. "I was getting struck by this woman while I was holding my daughter and I was the one who called the police.
In Kelso, a man had been out drinking and came home to fall asleep on the couch. His wife took an iron skillet and beat him. He was taken to the emergency room of the hospital and stitched up. He was taken there by police, but no charges were filed against his wife.
My wifein one of her drunken ragestook our daughters baseball bat and used it to smash the locked door to my study, where I was trying desperately to meet a deadline. And since Im over 6 feet tall and muscular, I wouldnt get much sympathy posing as a battered man!: I had thought of calling the police that night. When I recalled this incident to my divorce lawyer some time later, his response was: Its a good thing you didnt, because the police probably would have arrested you.
My son was married to a violent young woman for a few months before he left her. He is much larger than her and is a one time amateur boxing champion. She never used weapons, so she never came close to hurting him physically. But she hit him whenever she got the notion to, she cut up his clothes and threw them in the yard, she destroyed the trophies he had accumulated in various sports competitions since childhood, and she destroyed a wedding album my wife had made for them. Neither party was blameless, but the physical violence was all hers. If my son had ever hitten her, there would have been evidence for weeks.
I was in a hellish marriage with a woman who had difficulty controlling her rage, which would frequently erupt with her hitting, verbal abuse, and screaming. If fighting with her did occur, it was self-defense; if she threw a punch or kicked, I defended myself. In one particular case, after she initiated a fight by kicking and throwing punches, she called the police to report me as the violent abuser! When they responded, I was seen as the bad guy, she was the victim!
A man from Washington state---
I am 6'2" and about 200 lbs. I have a solid background in wrestling and have dabbled in TKD and Judo. I am also a DV survivor. I am NOT a "victim"! ... I was awakened by her screaming as she came through the bedroom door swinging a baseball bat. She brought it down across my legs. I managed to avoid most of the blow and took the bat away from her by twisting it out of her hands. She went to the kitchen and got a marble rolling pin.
We've tried to find help for him but all of the shelters just answer in silence. It's a shame how he was treated by the police and that there are no shelters or groups to help men, they need it every bit as much as women. It's time to stop offering help to someone just because they are a women. Abuse is abuse, it does matter how the abuser is or how the abused is.
I know the terror that comes from domestic violence, in this case perpetrated by my mother.
-- a Seattle man
I have been verbally and psychologically battered and abused, I've been threatened with bodily harm, I've been threatened to be shot right between the eyes, I've been kicked in the groin, I've had to watch while my ex sexually molested my daughter and not dare interfere for fear of retaliation. Then 1 day she called 911 so fast and had me arrested, my head was literally spinning with disbelief. When trying to tell the officer that I was provoked and that she was hurting my daughter and that I was protecting my daughter, he told me that I had better keep quiet, I'd charge you with a felony if I could, he said. .. So now what do i do?
She slapped the walls in the hall way. ... She hit me in the arm a few times, goading me to hit back. ... As you can see the above picture doesn?t? show any gross domestic violence.
Wife became very angry and she attacked me with a set of Porsche Keys - maybe three inches long. she stabbed me thirteen times. As I was trying to leave, she took our daughter and tried to throw her down the steps
Although she had been physically aggressive in the past, she turned downright violent toward me. It started by hitting me with the phone, throwing objects at me, kicking and clawing. She drew blood a number of times. Under advice from my attorney, I was warned that even taking a defensive position could be seen as an act of violence toward her. The ONLY physical action I took toward her was to restrain her from hitting or biting or kicking me. She was an expert at falling down and screaming -- "see kids, look at what your dad is doing to me."
Here's the kicker. I am a mental health professional, social worker and marriage and family therapist. I had blinders on like most guys. I interpreted her behavior as emotional disturbance, and would often sit up all night trying to comfort her after one of these episodes.
my lawyer looked at me like I was crazy when I told him ...
Why did I take it? I had a daughter that was small that was also screamed at and hit,and scared by stories of the bugger man getting her.I finally had to leave or get killed.
Grandmother was active in early women's rights, now urges men to speak out and act ...
My wife of almost 9 years was a woman of an incredibly short temper and possessed the ability to swing from mood to mood faster than you could shake a stick at. Over the years, she had thrown things at me, including knives, slapped me, punched me, and shoved me on numerous occasions. I had always felt a sympathy towards her because of the fact that she had no one in her life that truly seemed to care for her. I was going to be her protector.
I believe if this got around, their would be a stigma. Some embarassment toward ex wives and present lovers. I don't want my kids to hear these stories, or to have others in their world, discussing me regarding this issue.
I still don't understand why I stayed in that relationship as long as I did. I quess it was because she was such a great girl in every other way and I hoped she would change. I'm never going to go back into that kind of insanity again.
Funny, at the time I told myself I deserved it.
I was awarded temporary sole custody of my three children and possession of the marital home. My ex-wife was in shock and refused to leave ... Her attempts to provoke an incident increased. Finally one morning she cornered me alone in the kitchen and again began to punch me out after a nasty verbal exchange. Unfortunately, my 10 year old son witnessed this episode through a window while he headed for his school bus. I did not strike back. My ex then left and went to the police.
I was abused too many times and decided to end the relationship many times but I was unable to do so. Because she followed my each and every move and I was reluctant to file stalking charges against her because I did not want to hurt her feelings. The abuse intensified, she did not hesitate to hit me ... She also clawed me numerous time and even cut me with a knife. I was again failed to report the incidents to the authority. Many times she had threatened me that if I bring any charges against her, she would not hesitate to bring false charges against me ...
Her definition of the proper way to conduct an argument was to slap me around until I stopped disagreeing with her. ... However, I was willing to put up with it for the sake of her kids...at least until she started endangering them.
She screamed:
"I have never forgiven you for the way you looked at me the first time I hit you."
"How did I look?" I asked.
"You looked hurt and shocked and angry and disgusted."
"How should I have looked after you hit me?" I asked.
"I needed for you to understand how I was feeling at that time. I needed your support, not your anger," she said.
I understood then why she had never apologised for that act of violence or for any of her many other violent assaults.
She was brassy, outspoken and told me she liked "big guys". I'm 6' and weigh in at 230. She held a knife to my throat and told me to get out of the apartment. I would not dare move because I thought she would kill me....she would tell friends very publicly why sex with me was difficult. She would later say it was meant to be a compliment...kidding about the size of my genitalia. I wasn't laughing. Every success I had was met with derision. Daily my shirts were ripped....my face was slapped...I was kicked....I was locked out. There was nothing I could do to make a difference. [After I left] she has told me repeatedly, "You're the only person who really understood me." The face I see as she speaks is still the one who held the knife.
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posted on
08/04/2007 8:14:02 PM PDT
by
paltz
To: jdm; paltz; Admin Moderator
IBRTSB (in before reallocated to Smokey Backroom). :O)
I disagree. This is an important recognition that women are just as equally capable of violence as men. The writer freely admits to being a feminist, whose initial reaction was laughter. She also is one of the rare ones who actually do some research, and admits she was wrong.
I know at least three guys who were physically assaulted by their wives/gf's, not to mention mental abuse. Same old song and dance: hit me back, I call the cops.
Very powerful article. It may not be "breaking news", but doesn't belong in TSBR, imo...
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posted on
08/04/2007 8:45:20 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(If the families still ran Las Vegas, Harry Reid would be napping at the bottom of Hoover Dam)
To: paltz
"He was taken to the emergency room of the hospital and stitched up. He was taken there by police, but no charges were filed against his wife."Perhaps because HE was required to file charges, and did not?
Sometimes you have to stand up on your hind legs yourself, and not wait for "the police" or someone else to take care of you.
I had a wife who thought she could hit me - once.
She didn't think that again.
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posted on
08/04/2007 9:01:09 PM PDT
by
Redbob
(WWJBD -"What would Jack Bauer do?")
To: paltz
Women have been abusing men's trusts and financial health since the beginning of time.
"Gee honey, why can't you be a man and get the apple from that tree!"
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posted on
08/04/2007 9:05:21 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: paltz
Women don’t really get abusive until they’re promoted to management.
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posted on
08/04/2007 9:09:07 PM PDT
by
Nachoman
(My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
To: Nachoman
Women dont really get abusive until theyre promoted to management. While most of the women in management at my current company are competant individuals, I have seen at other companies the phenomenon of the woman who "overasserts" herself because she feels she needs to intimidate everyone, especially men. What these DUMB BROADS don't realize is that you should only turn on the intimidation signal in certain situations, OTHERWISE folks will see it for the BS act that it is. For men, this comes naturally, women seem to be a little retarded in this area.
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posted on
08/04/2007 9:11:29 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: Clemenza
“I have seen at other companies the phenomenon of the woman who “overasserts” herself because she feels she needs to intimidate everyone, especially men”
Makes me think about Hillary...I get the idea she might start a war just to prove how tough she is...
To: paltz
Women can and do physically abuse men from time to time... but it is psychological abuse that is their forte, their specialty, their bread-and-butter. Everyone knows that most women will remember every detail of anything mistake, misspoken word, or misstep, to bring it up later... far in the future, when you're down, when it will hurt the most. They are typically brought up early on in intense competition with most other viable females around them, often including family and friends, and they rarely seem to give any quarter when they sense psychological weakness in a perceived opponent. They are rather feline in the joy they get from toying with "lesser animals". It is sad that simply because their usual attacks leave no visible bruising, it is assumed that male physical abuse is more prevalent, problematic, and deserving of attention.
There's a reason the old saying is "beware of a woman scorned", and nothing about "beware of man".
To: Clemenza; paltz; jdm; Teacher317
MEN are taught to control their temper.
WOMEN are told it is ok to let theirs go
...and society and its laws will back them up to the hilt when they do so.
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posted on
08/04/2007 10:29:41 PM PDT
by
sauron
("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
To: sauron
Great Post!
Just got my son out of one of these situations.
It’s very very real.
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posted on
08/04/2007 11:53:32 PM PDT
by
Keith Brown
(Among the other evils being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised Machiavelli.)
To: Frank_2001
How would Hillary start a war? She would probably scream towards the United Kingdom, “I saw how you were looking at France!”
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posted on
08/05/2007 12:03:57 AM PDT
by
xc1427
(It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...Midnight Oil (Power and the Passion))
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: paltz
wow...reading that post is like deja vu all over again all over again.
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posted on
08/05/2007 12:32:41 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: paltz; All
What we have here is the Islamification of American women.
Men are turning their backs on women and getting their comfort from other men. Hatred for women is building.
The future looks like . . . the Moslem culture.
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posted on
08/05/2007 1:55:04 AM PDT
by
donna
(Women are the new men.)
To: paltz
There are good women and then are the b*tches from hell. No man wants to be married to the latter.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
08/05/2007 2:02:17 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Teacher317
“There’s a reason the old saying is “beware of a woman scorned”, and nothing about “beware of man”.
I can only wonder what inspired Kipling to write this.
The Female of the Species
1911
Rudyard Kipling
WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Mans timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
For the Woman that God gave him isnt his to give away;
But when hunter meets with husband, each confirms the others tale
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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posted on
08/05/2007 3:19:09 AM PDT
by
Mila
To: paltz
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posted on
08/05/2007 4:48:13 AM PDT
by
paltz
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