Again, another great article from Cathy Young as well as an intro by Omnidox..

Obama installing the male-haters may have seemed to be a great idea to him and deluded himself into thinking that he may have done at least one thing right. But, installing male-haters in the White House demonstrates exactly how long democrates and feminists feel the need to continue the sex wars and continue on their path of friction, denial, anti-male attitude and it's ongoing promotion..

Obama has already laid the blame on Black Fathers and ensured ongoing preference to the privileged black females while that other sex is just ignored..

Sexism ?

Yes..

It will all change as the Men's Movement ramps up it credibility and professionalism. We are succeeding and there is nothing that will stop this action as Men are just to fed up and tired of the blatant sexism that politicians like Obama as well as others from both sides clearly demonstrate..

It will not be long before we start registering politicans on their attitudes towards men and also their blatant and obvious promotion of feminism at the detriment of all men..

Quote #1: Challenges to feminist orthodoxy on domestic violence are often seen as anti-feminist backlash from angry men. But this conference, "From
Ideology to Inclusion 2009: New Directions in Domestic Violence Research
and Intervention" (sponsored by the California Alliance for Families and
Children), could not be so easily dismissed. The speakers included
scholars, social workers, and counselors; about half were women.

Quote #2: No one at the conference argued for complete equivalency in
partner abuse. Women are two to three times more likely to be injured due
to disparities in strength. Still, Straus and other presenters such as
social scientist Deborah Capaldi, a researcher for the National Institutes
of Health, insisted that female aggression must be taken seriously, and
they emphasized three facts.

- First, if the message is that hitting your partner is wrong, it should
include everyone.

- Second, "harmless" slaps may lead to an escalation that endangers the woman.

- Third, if "only" one in three or one in four people injured due to
partner violence are men, that's hardly trivial.

Quote #3: Another dogma of the battered women's movement is that violence
is the batterer's strategy of "power and control." This ignores not only
mutual violence but such factors as substance abuse and psychiatric disorders.

Quote #4: Kenneth Corvo, associate professor of social work at Syracuse
University, delivered a scathing analysis of the "Duluth model" of batterer
treatment, devised by advocates for battered women and relying on a rigid
view of abuse as "male privilege." In much of the country, this is the only
type of court-mandated batterer treatment - despite evidence that it is
largely useless, he said. Among other things, the system fails women who
want their abusive partner to get anger management or drug and alcohol
counseling, not feminist indoctrination.

Quote #5: [The system] also fails violent women, who often struggle with a
host of mental and emotional problems. Michelle Carney, associate professor
at the School of Social Work of the University of Georgia, deplores a
"don't talk to me about it" attitude toward the issue of female
perpetrators. Two therapists who counsel violent women agreed that the
problem is persistently minimized. An abusive woman may end up being taken
to a battered women's shelter. Male victims, meanwhile, often have nowhere
to turn.

The Boston Globe
16 July 2009

Battered women - and men
By Cathy Young

Lynn Rosenthal, a veteran of the battered women's advocacy movement, was
named to the new post of White House counsel on violence against women on
June 26. On the same day, a conference opened in Los Angeles disputing the
basic tenets of the movement Rosenthal represents - such as the view that
domestic violence is overwhelmingly a male crime against women rooted in
patriarchal power. Speakers argued for new policies based on a fuller
understanding of the problem. Is there a way to bridge the gaps between
these competing paradigms?

Challenges to feminist orthodoxy on domestic violence are often seen as
anti-feminist backlash from angry men. But this conference, "From Ideology
to Inclusion 2009: New Directions in Domestic Violence Research and
Intervention" (sponsored by the California Alliance for Families and
Children), could not be so easily dismissed. The speakers included
scholars, social workers, and counselors; about half were women.

Among the stars was sociologist Murray Straus, co-founder of the Family
Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire who helped pioneer
domestic violence research in the 1970s. His findings shed light on the
plight of battered women, and he became a hero to feminists - until he
began to study female violence.

Straus's finding, corroborated by dozens of studies, is that women assault
their partners about as often as men. Moreover, they do not act only in
self-defense but are as likely as men to hit first, and with similar
motives: anger, insecurity, controlling one's partner.

No one at the conference argued for complete equivalency in partner abuse.
Women are two to three times more likely to be injured due to disparities
in strength. Still, Straus and other presenters such as social scientist
Deborah Capaldi, a researcher for the National Institutes of Health,
insisted that female aggression must be taken seriously, and they
emphasized three facts. First, if the message is that hitting your partner
is wrong, it should include everyone. Second, "harmless" slaps may lead to
an escalation that endangers the woman. Third, if "only" one in three or
one in four people injured due to partner violence are men, that's hardly
trivial.

Another dogma of the battered women's movement is that violence is the
batterer's strategy of "power and control." This ignores not only mutual
violence but such factors as substance abuse and psychiatric disorders.

Kenneth Corvo, associate professor of social work at Syracuse University,
delivered a scathing analysis of the "Duluth model" of batterer treatment,
devised by advocates for battered women and relying on a rigid view of
abuse as "male privilege." In much of the country, this is the only type of
court-mandated batterer treatment - despite evidence that it is largely
useless, he said. Among other things, the system fails women who want their
abusive partner to get anger management or drug and alcohol counseling, not
feminist indoctrination.

It also fails violent women, who often struggle with a host of mental and
emotional problems.

Michelle Carney, associate professor at the School of Social Work of the
University of Georgia, deplores a "don't talk to me about it" attitude
toward the issue of female perpetrators. Two therapists who counsel violent
women agreed that the problem is persistently minimized. An abusive woman
may end up being taken to a battered women's shelter.

Male victims, meanwhile, often have nowhere to turn. Jan Brown, a Maine
resident, realized this 14 years ago when a male friend was leaving an
abusive marriage. In 2000, Brown founded the Battered Men's Helpline, now
the Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men and Women; it provides counseling,
support, and financial assistance when possible. Brown says she often
encounters suspicious attitudes; the Helpline has been refused membership
in the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, making it tough to get grants.

How can we move toward inclusion when ideology dominates the domestic
violence field? One step forward would be for Rosenthal to open up an
ongoing, truly inclusive dialogue on the issues. The conference materials
included a quotation from President Barack Obama about "ensuring that
scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political
agenda." Presumably, even a feminist one.

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Cathy Young is a contributing editor at Reason magazine.

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