No excuse for violence against women

the daily gleaner ^ | February 22nd, 2008 | Wilfred Langmaid

[SamuraiScot]

Sex = male/female. Gender = masculine/feminine.

Good point. The word "gender" is not properly applied to people, but to words. Mostly, it's a consideration in languages other than English. Amicitia, is Latin for "friendship," and is a noun of feminine gender—you can recognize it as feminine by its ending, since most Latin words ending in "a" are feminine.

Homosexuals, and the people who are beholden to them as part of the Lefty pantheon of victims, such as academics and journalists, have started using the word "gender" to apply to people, to avoid saying the word "sex." For them, this is in obedience to a whole feminist-homosexual-rights theory that sex is not a profound distinction—as if maleness or femaleness were something that you could choose or alter with a thought or a keystroke, like the ending of a word.

This notion, called "Gender Theory," is a little shared lie that grew out of a desire to protect psychologically wounded people from any obligation to deal with their problems adjusting to the world outside themselves. This brand of reality-avoidance has metastasized into a political agenda. The agenda encompasses things like an attachment to abortion—because women "need" to be able to kill the evidence that their sex is the one that gets pregnant—and bizarre "speech codes"—to prevent others from telling inconvenient truths about normal sexual behavior, marriage, and children. As the writer of the article excerpted shows, the agenda also encompasses a hatred for husbands and fathers—the men who offend the "gender"-benders by performing duties as unique to their sex as child-bearing is to women. Gender-benders are always trying to find ways to dismiss marriage as rape and wife-beating.

In the name of truth, literacy, freedom, and psychological health, let us avoid asking "gender" to perform tasks of which only "sex" is capable.

[vpintheak]

White Christian males are evil. That’s all there is to it. Once we come to understand that, then we can move on. /sarcasm if anyone really needs to know.

[paltz]

domestic violence against men

[Rca2000]

Yeah..we can “move on”all right...right into the worst form of tyranny and servitude this planet has ever seen.

(and I DID see the sarcasm tag, btw.)

But I REALLY fear that we are heading there as a planet....

[DoughtyOne]

If you got the kids you won. Good for you bud. To hell with the rest of it.

[Jabba the Nutt]

What about men? Violence against men justifiable?

[freespirited]

Far as I’m concerned gender is about pronouns, but I used his lingo to be polite.

[Tribune7]

Hey, maybe he’s going to take on those who are trying to impose Sharia law in his country. I guess the test is whether he takes it to the Muzzies

[lepton]

More typically, men abuse physically while women abuse verbally or emotionally.

Women are more likely to TRY to abuse physically, but they are simply less effective on the average. Many, many, many studies have show that women are more likely to initiate violence by a wide margin - though because of ineffectiveness, it gets categorized as emotional abuse. That is certainly not to say that violence by women is never a serious threat to a man - it most certainly can be, especially if pursued long enough or with weapons, even without the unusual case where the woman is stronger than the man.

[lepton]

Nicely written.

[Fido969]

Wilfred might be a wife-beater.

[hinckley buzzard]

As Ronaldus Magnus said, "It isn't that our liberal friends don't know anything, it is that so much of what they know is wrong. This dweeb is amazing confirmation-- virtually everything he thinks he knows is false. Talk about drinking the kool aid.

[lepton]

Far as I’m concerned gender is about pronouns, but I used his lingo to be polite.

Oh, I don't doubt that. I just view the deliberate abuse of language (in general) as starting the conversation with a lie. I was just teasing to make the point. :)

[grey_whiskers]

Someone ought to set up a round table--or cage match ;-) -- between those two.

Let the fireworks and popcorn begin.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

As evidence of my last post, see this thread.

Sooner or later, the libs are gonna have to confront the jihadists.

Cheers!

[buccaneer81]

You went off on yldstrk for reasons in your own mind. It was uncalled for. You want to talk about character, a real Freeper would suck it up and give him a no-strings apology.

He's a profiteer in human misery (i.e. a lawyer who deals with domestic law.) So excuse me if I disagree with you.

[VOA]

I was part of a United Methodist Women that brought the issue up
publicly in our local church. You have been appalled at the number
of elderly ladies who came up to me and discreetly said things like
“People need too know about this.”

Spousal abuse witin the greater part of Christendom is surely a
real phenonmenon and needs to be dealt with.

But I happened into a strangley different church environment
that seemed to be the polar opposite of the husband-abusing-wife
norm.

I don't know if it's a difference in theology or inter-generational
change...but the Church of Christ I grew up in seemed to be full
of husbands kept on very short leases by their spouses.

My mom, in a moment of candor, told me that it wasn't the elders
and deacons that ran our congregation...it was the wives of the
elders and deacons that called all the shots.

And this was in 1960s-1970s Bible-Belt, Rock-Ribbed-Republican,
Conservative-to-the-right-of-Curtis LeMay Oklahoma.