Posted on 08/30/2010 2:37:01 AM PDT by RogerFGay
A series of high-profile cases of lesbian-perpetrated domestic violence has sent shock-waves through Massachusetts communities in recent months:
1. On February 16, a Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted Nicole Chuminski on two counts of second-degree murder, following a fire that killed the two daughters of her lover Anna Reisopoulos. During a heated argument between the two, Chuminski reportedly fell into a fit of rage. A few hours later Chuminski returned to her partner’s apartment and hurled an acetone-laden firebomb into the front door.
Sophia and Acia, ages 2 and 14, were burned beyond recognition, so dental records were needed for positive identification.
2. On March 29 Annamarie Rintala of Granby, Mass. was found dead by strangulation in the basement of the house she shared with her domestic partner Cara. Cara had been previously charged with domestic violence after she struck Annamarie in the back of the head with a closed fist.
3. Eunice Field of Brockton, Mass. found herself on the losing end of a bitter ménage à trois. So on August 9 she marched to the apartment of Lorraine Wachsman. There she grabbed a serrated knife and stabbed Wachsman in the back and neck. Dispelling any doubt about her intentions, she then penned a note admitting she had killed Waschsman “for taking away the love of my life.”
Ms. Field is now being held without bail pending a September 3 court appearance.
Experts on lesbian domestic violence were shocked, but honestly not surprised by these incidents. Last November a report by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported a 125% increase in domestic violence fatalities in lesbian and gay couples around the country during the prior year. According to Beth Leventhal of The Network/La Red of Boston, “partner abuse in LGBT communities can be just as lethal as that in heterosexual communities.”
Ms. Leventhal’s commentary actually understates the extent of the problem. Earlier this year the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research published the results of a survey of over 51,000 California adults . The UCLA study found 28% of persons in lesbian/gay relationships had experienced intimate partner violence, compared to 17% of persons in heterosexual relationships.
It’s also believed that lesbians are more likely to engage in partner violence than gay men. According to the Boston Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project, one in three homosexual women experience partner aggression, compared to only one in four homosexual men. Kaitlin Nichols of The Network/La Red notes, “The myth of women’s communities as safe communities has prevented many women from reaching out for support. If they have shared what is happening, they are met with disbelief from their community.”
And why are lesbians more likely to abuse?
According to Nomi Porat, an abuse-prevention expert, the reason is poor limit-setting: “An issue common to women, particularly battered women, is the fear of demanding physical and emotional boundaries. In part, battered lesbians are afraid their lovers will leave or become more violent if any limitations are set in the relationship.”
A nearly impenetrable double wall serves to keep lesbian battering tucked away in the proverbial closet. The first wall is the stigmatization invoked by lesbians themselves who believe in a sort of same-sex utopia, the feminist belief that maintains female-female relationships are inherently more peaceful, gentle, and “pure,” compared to male-female relationships.
In Naming the Violence: Speaking out About Lesbian Battering, Barbara Hart maintains that female batterers should be subjected to a form of shunning by the lesbian community: “one of the consequences of [female batterers’] violence is that they may have to limit any contact with the person they assaulted/abused. This may mean that the batterer cannot attend public gatherings or movement meetings.”
The second wall is the broader domestic violence industry that maintains a cult-like belief in the notion of patriarchal sexism, the theory that men abuse their wives due to an innate and irrepressible urge to oppress women. So every time a woman pummels, rapes, or otherwise abuses her female partner, the patriarchal dominance theory takes a body-blow.
These ideological blinders serve to justify shelters policies that turn away of needy women. According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, the problem of abuse shelters that discriminate on the basis of gender identity is widespread.
Intimate partner aggression is not a problem limited to any particular sex, or gender identity, or economic group. Indeed, research shows women are at least as likely as men to engage in partner abuse.When the Sisterhood gets over its denial of the truth, we’ll stop seeing so many women and men victimized by domestic violence.
There could be chemical/environmental factors which promote violence among lesbians.
Maybe it's something in the carpet (or flannel)
No matter how “socially acceptable” it becomes (even in the extreme of requiring homosexuality by law),
the Law, written on our hearts as human beings,
will always tell us that it’s wrong.
This is the source of the “despondency”,
and there is no way to escape it.
NO good. Part of the wish for her turning into a 6 pack is so they wouldn’t TALK!
It won't. They are immature adults centered on self. Their whole lifestyle is hedonistic and revolves around what makes them happy. And nothing does for very long. Monogamy is not something most of them practice. Mental illness does not cure itself simply because most other people are forced to accept it as "normal".
Two men or two women being together in a relationship is completely counter to natural order, IMHO.
It absolutely is counter to normalcy. It adds nothing in evolutionary terms. They are relationships that are focused totally on sex. There is no "family". They even simulate normal relationships. It is two people, pretending to be what they are not.
Pray for our military.
because they need mental help in the first place, .
They have sex with the same sex.
wear straps thinking that one is a man and then plays the role of a man.
What is needed if for homosexuals to be helped and not told that they are great, that some idiot comes friends with a homosexual thinking it is cool.
Hell NY city women there have a homo friend like it is a fashion
No homosexual I have known has ever had a close, loving relationship with their same-sex parent. They are all hurtin’ puppies.
Does anyone know of a true “same sex” couple -
that is, both of them acting as the SAME gender,
and not one of them pretending to be the opposite gender?
I have more faith in men than you do.
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Amen to that, my FRiend! They’re despondent because they were told their whole lives that homosexuality is a sin and it’s morally wrong. So, like the pre-teen stealing a candy bar, they’re nervous, anxious, and eventually that candy bar is going to be consumed but likely not with any zeal since the moral implications of the theft will be heavy on the heart of the thief, or in the case of this analogy, the homo.
I agree with you, DJ. When I see my cousin and his partner at family gatherings, it’s very obvious that there’s a rift there. It’s shame, and I’m glad I see it, personally.
been a couple of deaths in my state this year already with one homo woman killing another because they did not get along and another homo woman killing a young girl because she was normal and not a homosexual.
I’ve been around and been with many woman while in the military.
I remember when guys would say hey I’d love to be with lesbians, really I’d say then why do you think they’;re lesbians they do not like you plus hollywood gives a portrayal of two good looking women, the fact is that the real homo women are mental baskets, ugly as a pigs arse and many stink or lack any kind of cleanliness.
You wouldn’t say this if you have ever heard a screaming match between a dad and his son
Get over it. No. Men, connivers, Stalin etc and his ilk are responsible for the mess in the White house today.
Anyone wiht any sense knows that homosexuals have mental problems and many of these homosexual women are violent.
It is known in the homosexual community that domestic violence is higher than normal couples too.
It is high time for those idiots who say “well I have a homosexual friend and they are nice” need to go to their parades like the folsom fair and see what they really are like when they are with their friends,
My wife had a friend who had a brother who was homosexual in MA, she went to a few of their bars and said it was the sickest thing she has ever seen in her life.
They are all perverts and everything is centered on sex, she also said that all of them are immature and need to grow up.
It’s a shame. Pushing acceptance will not help them. It will only hurt as fewer will seek any sort of help. The source of their angst isn’t because we think they are wrong. It’s because they know they are.
They’re despondent because they were told their whole lives that homosexuality is a sin and it’s morally wrong.
There must be some misunderstanding, as you wholeheartedly agree with me yet misstate my point. It is not that they have been “TOLD” that it is wrong, nor is it because it is not fully societally acceptable that they are depressed and despondent.
They feel guilty and despondent because their conscience is wired to KNOW that it is wrong, but their lustful self-centeredness tempts them to do the wrong thing anyway (as all of us do).
Rom 2:14-15
14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them
nope.
It goes against nature even if they do not accept God.
It is totally unnaturally and certainly sick/weird.
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