Posted on 10/13/2012 8:35:48 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Gloria Steinem: 'The Home in Our Country Is Single Most Dangerous Place for a Woman’ By Penny Starr October 12, 2012
(CNSNews.com) – Speaking at an event to mark the 40th anniversary of Ms. Magazine, co-founder and feminist activist Gloria Steinem said that because of domestic violence “the home in our country is the single most dangerous place for a woman” and that ending domestic violence is “the key to world peace.”
“We can understand, you know, where it is we wish to go and also reveal more clearly where it is we are now,” Steinem said at the National Press Club on Thursday.
“For instance, domestic violence, or original violence, has diminished somewhat, but it is true right now that if you added up all the women murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country since 9/11 and then took all the people killed in 9/11, all the Americans killed in Iraq and in Afghanistan, there are more women who have been murdered by their husbands and boyfriends than were collectively killed in those situations,” she said.
“It’s also still true that the average prison sentence for a partner, a male partner who kills his female partner, is less than for a woman who kills in self-dense in the home,” Steinem said.
“It’s still true that the home in our country is the single most dangerous place for a woman – not the street,” Steinem said.
The number of people killed by terrorists in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 was 2,977. The number of troops killed in Afghanistan total 2,125 and 4,475 in Iraq, according to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. That would bring the total for the attack and the two wars to 9,577 deaths.
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Yes, or in Gloria's case, LIBERAL GLORGIAC (pronounced "glorgiac" - means "convoluted").
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I never thought I would agree with Gloria about much of anything, but from an international perspective, I think she is on to something.
The most dangerous instrument to a woman in her own home is her mouth.
It’s single parent mothers who get beat up the most.... you know the kind of people who bought into feminists bullshit...
Oh wow. Feminazis on FR! Who’da thunk it?
I think this life is pretty torturous and won’t mind when it is my time to go home.
lemme put it this way
I have never met a man who could put his family ahead of his anatomy, including my own family. I hope some exist, because they exist in my mind. But this perverse “sex drive” that fuels porn, hooters etc is something I completely do not get.
http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20021002/home-injuries-rising-often-deadly
...a new report shows dangers abound on the home front as well — causing as many as 20,000 deaths, 7 million disabling injuries, and 20 million hospital trips in the U.S. each year.
After falls and poisonings, the most common causes of death at home were fires, inhalation and suffocation, and drowning.
>>I have never met a man who could put his family ahead of his anatomy, including my own family. I hope some exist, because they exist in my mind. But this perverse “sex drive” that fuels porn, hooters etc is something I completely do not get.
Well, I feel sorry for you and the choices you’ve made. I’ve been married to my HS sweetheart for 30 years and have always put my family ahead of my anatomy to the extent that I have worked in the utility industry or on submarines for most of those 30 years. I have been shocked by 480v four times, received first and second degree burns several times, and have blown out my knee and ankle from repetitive injuries bad enough to require surgery on each. My wife has had a peaceful life working in an office setting for that time and I have never, ever laid a hand on her for anything.
I get so sick of you women who make poor choices in men claiming that all men are like the scumbags that you choose to live with. There are plenty of good men out there...and good women work hard to keep them.
No, freedom, private property, free market economics,rationality,respect for and preservation of natural rights, and ending all initiation of force and aggression by all governments and religions is the key to world peace.
Female domestic violence against men is nothing to sneeze at. But Gloria will.
well woop deee do. I guess you made the choice to work at jobs that injure you too.
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