Onthebeach I suspect the reasons are a lot more varied than just access to taxpayer money. A fair does of misandry, some trying desperately to believe it's not abusive when they do it, an element of men's lives being considered less important than women's (women and children first anybody). An element of the lie being told often enough that it's hard to get your head around the fact it is a lie. It took me long enough to come to grips with how much of what I though I knew about DV being a lie. It was the unwillingness of anybody to tell my then wife that her hits was wrong and needed to stop that got me looking.

I was sitting in rooms with posters on the walls about DV, brochures on the table about DV and being told by relationship professionals that she was smaller than me and unlikely to hurt me so it didn't matter much. I had her taunting me with the social prohibition against men hitting women whilst she relished the protected status she had for her own violence.

I had to deal with what little I knew of the mess that is the family law system (worse than I imagined) and my own sense of commitment to the vow's I'd made with seemingly no way out.

Sometimes it takes a lot to wake some of us up.

R0bert

Thank you for adding some much needed accuracy on this issue in the Australian media.

It occurs to me that trying to have parts of this debate is like trying to discuss geology or astronomy with a literal creationist. Everything related to the age of the earth/universe for the creationist has to be made to fit within to boundaries of their belief system, eg that their god created the world 6 to 7 thousand years ago. For the marxist feminist DV is about patriarchal control of women by men and any evidence that does not support that view is either suppressed or recast to try and make it fit.

Imagine how different our view of the world and universe would be if creation science groups had almost complete control of the university departments doing research in those fields.

R0bert

Exactly; our view of the world and universe would deteriorate into farce . . . with such rapidity it would make Peter Garrett's moral's look positively rock solid.

Yes, and what amazes me even more is all those anti-feminists actually allowing all these 'Marxist feminists' to control the world?

Robert.
To Feminists EVERYTHING is about power.
I've said this a hundred times, Feminism is based on female supremacy, traditionalism is based of female superiority.
This article nails the present zeitgeist I think.
Truth in the empire of lies:
http://therightstuff.biz/2014/06/16/truth-in-the-empire-of-lies/