Studies shatter myth about abuse

USA Today ^ | 6/22/2003 | Karen S. Peterson

[CatoRenasci]

Ah, scholarship begins to catch up with common sense. Figures like the termagent shrew wife do not abound in fiction because their like does not exist in the world.

[goldstategop]

If people are not happy with each other they get divorced. The only people who stay in abusive or loveless marriages do so out of mutual choice, like the Clintons. Their relationship is a poster child for dysfunctional marriages.

[wimpycat]

Well, here you are again, SUKER!

[Lazamataz]

sorry to shatter illusions republican men are more likley to abuse a wife who has ambitiion or who expresses anti taliban sendiments..Ann coulter is not married too liberal

You almost wrote a coherent sentence.

Almost.

[goldstategop]

Ann Coulter is too liberal for a Free Republic troglodyte, huh? LMAO

[wimpycat]

So how's life on the dole?

[boris]

I had a colleague (a cubicle-mate) who was a slight, morose, almost skeletally-thin individual. A physicist. This was in the days before I became a gun nut. We never spoke about guns.

One day I came to work and he was absent. Then the dept. manager told us he had shot his wife (emptied the mag) in front of their kids.

Court testimony revealed that she (a giantess) regularly beat him up. One day he 'snapped'. He testified that he didn't mean to shoot her, only frighten her. But six rounds...the jury might have bought one round. I'm sure they found some shrink to testify that once he began pulling the trigger, he went into some sort of zombie trance.

As far as I know, he's still in the greybar hotel.

--Boris

[wimpycat]

Sorry about the disturbance, sir. He escaped early this morning, and we've been tracking him from thread to thread.

[Freedom2specul8]

I skimmed the article...looks like I agree with it too.

WRT:" but he emphasizes injury rates are not the same. "The likelihood of an injury to a woman requiring medical attention is much greater. Men cause more damage."", that depends on whether or not the woman uses a weapon..and that does happen.

Thanks for posting this.

[dogbyte12]

Instinctively we all know this is true. Again, these studies are not suggesting that men are as likely injured as women, but women are not always passive victims of abuse.

There is a bunch of sado-masochism going on. There are women and men who will push, say abusive things, belittle a partner who has an uncontrollable temper, and then will play victim.

There is no excuse for physically injuring a partner, however there is an explanation in some cases. When I was in the military, I knew a guy who got into drag out fights with his wife. She gave as good as she took.

Incidentally, the guy never started the fights, at least that I was aware of at the time. She would call him a loser, and throw things at him, and sometimes would shove him, and they would get into physical altercations.

If she ever ended up pressing charges against him for hitting her, I am sure he would have been hauled off to jail, and rightly so( he should have left her, rather than take her abuse), but society would have treated her as a helpless victim, when clearly she wasn't.

If you know that debasing a person, throwing items at a person, and making physical contact with a person in a demeaning way has made them react physically 50 times in a row, on the 51st time when they really get out of control, they should be punished, but you have no right whatsoever to act like a victim.

[CatoRenasci]

A pity he didn't have the presence of mind to stop after one round to the center of her chest. I have known a couple of guys whose wives were much larger than they were and who were physically abusive, but neither of them went postal. One divorced his wife, to everyone's delight, and the other out-lived his wife, whose rages probably contributed to her early fatal heart attack.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Is your real name Chief Moose ?

[goldstategop]

True. Its the result of feminist conditioning that men and women are equal except for minor differences of plumbing. So you ignore the differences in strength and its assumed women can take it and they can also dish it out. I'm not excusing domestic violence here just observing how feminism is at odds with human nature.

[CatoRenasci]

But, is he ZOT! yet?

[Lazamataz]

Sorry about the disturbance, sir. He escaped early this morning, and we've been tracking him from thread to thread.

sseems he lik to spew rnandom ra ra ra frases like replublican and not conservative enugh tto vote Democrtat! cause what Al Franken is reallu conservative enoug for all america is what is like.

[Freedom2specul8]

I'm divided on the feminist issue on at least one issue that I can think of..and that is women's legal and voting rights. Some Guys and gals think women should have never received those rights. I totally disagree. Other than that...I dn't like feminism. Does that make sense? I've not had breakfast yet. :)

[Tacis]

Get the names and numbers of the numbnuts who wrote this article!

Why are they wasting research dollars on issues that are clear and well established? We've been able to "guide" reasearch on issue related to homosexuality so that there never are findings with the established liberal posiitions, why can't we get the same level of compliance on this subject?

[wimpycat]

Now he is.