Protest raises questions about gender bias - staff walks out on video showing abuse of men

Cecil Whig (Cecil County, MD) ^ | 05/15/2003 | Carl Hamilton

[dirtboy]

Liberals are quite fond, apparently, of walking away from situations they don't like.

[coloradan]

The use of skewered, sensationalist materials, often based on misleading statistics, myths, and non-scientific research, is non-productive to our mission and provides a disservice to all victims of violence," according to one passage in the statement.

Skewered, LOL! (I think they meant "skewed".) But this accurately summarizes their position on guns: a gun in the home is 22 times more likely to kill friend or family, quintuples the risk of suicide and triples the risk of homocide, etc.

[aardvark1]

The wife of someone very close to me was abusive. She tried to stab him silverware (forks and knives) on several occasions. The woman was a drunk and carouser. Finally, sent her packing.

[KellyAdmirer]

These man-haters are getting a taste of the medicine they have been dishing out to men for decades with the forced viewings of gender-sensitivity videos and forced attendance at related meetings. I think some firings of these women and hiring of some open-minded men is in order, personally. And I certainly hope there is a gender-diverse staff at that office, btw, else lawsuits may be in order.

[dirtboy]

Yeah, from the reaction of the judges I don't think these feminazis realized just how much doo-doo they were getting into with their little stunt.

[Freedom2specul8]

What a surprise! I thought a few years ago, that the folks who work in the domestic violence field completely recognized that some women are the abusers.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Makes it so much more difficult to continue to play the victim and martyr when people insist on pointing out that you're also likely to be the perpetrator at times......

[RJCogburn]

Actually, several studies have shown about as many men are abused, physically, as women.

[bigfootbob]

"She tried to stab him silverware"

My wife tried that once years ago when I came home late from work. I had been at the tavern with some co-workers. She was lying in bed with an 8" chef knife waiting to bobbitize my frontal area. I climbed into bed and she displayed the knife, I reached over and grabbed the thing and took it from her, slicing her ring finger to the bone. That never happened again. It's become a funny story we tell now some 26 years later.

I'm thankful she didn't do to me what her sister did to her carousing husband. He came home from work one day to find his dinner ready and little did he know his girlfriend had called the wife and told her about his affair. The wife had taken the husbands fork and heated it to redhot on the stove and stuck it into the plate of spaghetti. When he stuck the fork into his mouth the fork branded his tounge and roof of his mouth. They were quite a couple.

[gcruse]

I used to know a Cecil Whig. Not really. Great name for a newspaper.

[savedbygrace]

I'm trying to picture that, but I need your help. She heated the fork up, but even though he was able to pick it up in his hand without getting a clue to how hot is was, it burned his mouth severely?

What am I missing?

[MattinNJ]

I would suspect that a lot of men are abused because they are extremely reluctant to strike back because of inner character or legal ramifications. Suppose a wife did stab a husband with a fork or a butter knife and the husband decked her in retaliation-my guess would be that he's the one who will wind up in the squad car with a snickering cop behind the wheel.

[coloradan]

Silver has a high thermal conductivity, but stainless steel does not. The tines of a stainless fork can be red hot for many tens of seconds before the handle begins getting perceptibly warm. She would only have had to heat it up, then call him to the table immediately.

[Chemist_Geek]

Suppose a wife did stab a husband with a fork or a butter knife and the husband decked her in retaliation-my guess would be that he's the one who will wind up in the squad car

Correct.

[Chemist_Geek]

She added, "It wasn't a wise move. This just cements the stereotype that women in these groups are man-haters."

It's not a stereotype.

[Lazamataz]

Your family is an effing laugh-riot, it is.

[bigfootbob]

"What am I missing?"

Fork design. The fork had a wooden handle. She told my wife she had to practice. Too hot and it sounded like a steak at Ruth's Criss, not hot enough the job doesn't get done. Truly maniacal, but I bet he learned.

[dirtboy]

I'm not a liberal, but I fail to see why men of domestic violence are need of services

Sometimes there isn't a lot of money and the man decides to get the hell away. The point is, these staffers conducted themselves in a discriminatory manner, which means that state agencies may end up being unable to do business with them. And it reflects a higher problem, namely that a lot of the activists in this area are hard-core man haters who don't want facts intruding into their cult of victimhood - if men are victims as well, they might have to treat them in a more sympathetic manner.