A big piece of stone just fell out of the Domestic Violence version of the Berlin Wall

National Post ^ | October 15, 2008 | Barbara Kay

[RogerFGay]

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and I am sure that to 99% of readers the two words "domestic violence" means violence against women. Only. The politically correct view that all domestic violence (DV) can be accounted for either by the inherent aggression and controlling instincts of men or by women's defensive reactions against those instincts is so deeply entrenched in our culture that it has become the Berlin Wall of the gender wars - or rather the war of feminism against men. In fact women initiate violence against their partners in an almost equal ratio to men. And in many cases the violence they inflict is severe (as one woman in a woman's shelter told the director, "knives make great levellers").

For all the men who have suffered at the hands of battering women, a chunk of stone just fell out of that huge gendered wall. In a taxpayer lawsuit by four male victims of DV, the Third District appellate court in California reversed a previous ruling holding that because they are not statistically situated with women, men are not entitled to equal protection. The new ruling declares the exclusion of men from Domestic Violence programs unconstitutional. ... cont.

[RogerFGay]

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[fanfan]

Great article by Barbara Kay.

Thanks for the ping, Roger.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The Obama court will make sure to reverse this.

[familyop]

So would any court without majorities of judges like Bork in them. Feminism rules over both big political parties here—parties that simply take turns in administration with feminists and their sugar daddies running back and forth between leadership groups and discussion venues in the parties.

[newzjunkey]

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