He's beholden to false stats and propaganda. This is why we have the stupid laws that we have.
do you still beat your wife?
You don’t need no stinking excuses when you have plenty of Valid Reasons! ;o)
This guy is courageous. 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.”
Churches have long been part of the problem with the submit to the husband tired old line. I inform them all that means is first, find a man who submits to God, then find a way to get along with him.
Weel, ol’ Wilfred better get used to seeing more of this from the Religion of Peace:
“Shaila Bari had come to Canada as part of an arranged marriage. She and her husband, Abdul Bari, were still married, but separated at the time of her death.”
“originally from Bangladesh”
Just anecdotally, I know of several older women, who in unguarded moments, will emphatically state (regarding their widowhood) that they would never go back and re-marry.
There’s also no excuse for violence against men, which is 10-15 times more common.
Yup, you are a member of the gender that does the fighting and the dying, that loses custody of the children in divorce, and that has the shorter average lifespan.
If this is your idea of privilege, I'm not gonna argue with ya.
Update: The Archbishop of Canterbury thinks sharia law is inevitable, so stop worrying. Beating women is a good thing.
Thomas Sowell gives a hypothetical statistic in his book “The Vision of the Annointed:”—”90 percent of left-handed men kill, rape, mutilate or criticize their wives.” He points out you can high percentage on terrible acts if you include something at the end of the list that is not so horrible but accounts for most of the cases. Presumably, most men have criticized their wives at some point.
With the “abuse” statistic, I’d like to see what is defined as “abuse” before I give too much credence to that 1 out of 3 statistic.
My Mother left my Dad in February 1957; my Dad was an alcoholic who was both abusive and unfaithful to my Mom. She took myself and my two sisters and drove from an Air Base in northern Maine to her parents' home in south central Florida. It took her 5 days to make the trip. We stopped every night at a motel along the way; there still dirty gray snow on the ground for the first couple of days and then everything began to turn green as we got further south. We ate breakfast and dinner and bought bread, sandwich meat and sodas to make lunch in the car as we drove.
I've heard that many women stay with their abusers because "they don't know what else to do or where else to go" - well my Mom knew what to do and where to go. There have always been people who are willing to help provided the abused could find the courage to take the first step. I agree with you - he is a wuss and 'real men' are not the problem! More specifically, I'm not part of the problem! I've never hit my wife of now over 39 years and I've never "turned away" from anyone who asked for my help. However, as my old First Sergeant used to say, "I don't have ESP!"
I don't always see the bruises or the 'extra heavy make-up' but that doesn't mean I'm uncaring or ignoring the problem, it simply means that I didn't see it! Sometimes people are concerned about their own problems, wives, children, parents, siblings, jobs, or other interests. So, this is not for you but for all the other "wusses" who occasionally sneak into FreeRepublic - don't try to lay that "stuff" on me - that dog don't hunt!
One last thing; there is an old western adage, "God didn't make all men equal - Colonel Colt did!" When a woman is finally ready to stop being abused, there are people and agencies that can and will help her (and if necessary, her children). The next thing she should invest in is a Course on Safe Firearms Handling (preferably by an NRA Certified Instructor) and then a handgun. If she lives in a state that refuses to allow it's citizens to own handguns, she should consider relocating to a state that does allow it.
My Mom built a house in 1960 and thereafter kept a revolver on the top shelf in the hall closet; I never touched it and I'm fairly certain my sisters didn't either.
...unless a mob of renegade feminists starts an attempt at genocide.
There’s no excuse for adultery. There’s no excuse for sodomy.
I’ve never understood how some men can beat their wives and survive. They have to sleep sometime.
I’ve never understood how some men can beat their wives and survive. They have to sleep sometime.
No, that's not even close to being true.
Our "collective" responsibility is to teach children right from wrong and to teach them wisdom.
Is abuse wrong? Absolutely, and men and women should both be taught not to be abusive. While abuse of women by men is more visible and is decried more often, the opposite also occurs. More typically, men abuse physically while women abuse verbally or emotionally. In either case, the abuse is wrong.
Tolerating abuse of one's self is also wrong, and while there are some legitimate excuses, they are far fewer than society sometimes leads us to believe. Simply giving up and saying that one's self-image is too weak to walk away from the abuse is not an excuse. Giving up in that way is wrong.
Often abusers seem to be the most desirable of partners. Women abusers are sometimes very beautiful. Men abusers are sometimes very handsome and charming. The abuser's allure is no excuse for someone to stay with an abuser.
When someone is chronically and deliberately abusive, the law should punish the abuser. At the same time, most of the "no tolerance" and similar "strict" laws are mostly invitations for manipulation. If we as a society spent more time instilling children with self-respect, we'd go much further to stopping abuse.
Bill
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.
What about men? Violence against men justifiable?
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
Wilfred might be a wife-beater.