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The fallacious stereotype of ‘male violence’, and why it’s being sold to you : Comments

By Adam Blanch, published 11/6/2014

Some Australian legislation states that domestic violence is predominantly perpetrated by men for the purpose of control, pre-biasing the prosecution to ignore the evidence and assume the male to be guilty.

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Suse.
The posters on OLO are mostly sensible people, that's why we don't see a lot of the hard edged Radfem nonsense, nor the more strident Anti Feminist ranting in the comments.
However "man hating" and the gender biased view of society's problems are the stock in trade of widely read sites like Jezabel, The Huffington Post, Ms Magazine and so forth.
As the old media dies and the new media becomes the mainstream it is important to address bias and hatred when we see it, Fairfax and Newscorp simply wouldn't get away with printing the biased material that comes from online Feminist media, they'd be pulled up on it straight away.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Friday, 20 June 2014 11:42:33 AM
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Dear Suse and RObert,

All the evidence indicates that the effects of
domestic violence can be devastating for the victim,
involving physical and emotional damage and the
disruption of personal, social, familial, and
sexual life.

If the victim reports the attack to
the police, the emotional trauma may be re-experienced
months or years later in a courtroom, where the intimate
details of the domestic violence are dissected before
an audience of strangers. Typically, defense lawyers
try to shift the burden of guilt from the accused to
the victim. Even this aspect and the aftermath of
domestic violence can be fully understood only in terms
of the overall patterns of sexual interaction in our
society. Until we work towards changing the patterns as
they exist - including stereotyping, labeling,
and classifying individuals as having something in common
because they are members of a particular group or
category of people - nothing much will change. And it has
to, if we want to see some real responses to the problem of
domestic violence.

Thank You both for your comments and I look forward
to seeing you both on another discussion.
Posted by Foxy, Friday, 20 June 2014 2:03:47 PM
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Hot off the press
http://news.optuszoo.com.au/2014/06/27/women-more-aggressive-to-partners/

<Women were also shown to engage in greater levels of controlling behavior, which is <understood to be a predictor of physical aggression in both sexes.

<“This was an interesting finding,” Dr Bates says. “Previous studies have sought to explain <male violence towards women as rising from patriarchal values, which motivate men to seek <to control women’s behaviour, using violence if necessary.

<“This study found that women demonstrated a desire to control their partners and were <more likely to use physical aggression than men.

How disappointing most will have moved away from this topic.
Posted by Wolly B, Friday, 27 June 2014 8:20:33 AM
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Wolly B as reported in this mornings paper, presumably Australia wide, it is the men who are the villains, there is no mention of dominate, manipulative and cruel females to their spouses, we men must look after our fairy like females even if they hit us over the head with frypans or smack our faces, of course that is not violence is it ?
Posted by Ojnab, Friday, 27 June 2014 2:15:13 PM
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Wolly B,

It is the positive stereotyping of women, buffed up considerably to the 'Wonderful Womyn' and 'Earth Mother' by feminists, that conceals the controlling behaviour and violence of some women.

The existence of parental alienation is hotly contested by feminists, but it does exist and extends to 'his' parents as well. In the US there is the demand for court orders granting access to children to be extended to grandparents as well.

Just an example of many that could be discussed.

It isn't good enough that some here pull the tarp over female violence, particularly by not applying the same definition of violence in the case of women and girls offenders as they do for men and boys. Pulling the tarpaulin over female violence includes denying the discussion of domestic violence affecting men by saying, 'Never you mind boys, violence affects everyone, so there is no need to discuss violence affecting men at all, or how feminism has actually furthered and legitimised violence and negative stereotyping against men and boys'.

As we discuss this, there must be thousands of fathers who are constantly being bullied by their female partners who threaten to remove children and deny access to them. There would also be thousands of grandparents who never get to see their grandchildren and fear often with good reason that they are being alienated against them.

http://grandparents.about.com/od/Grandparents-Rights/g/Grandparent-Alienation-Syndrome.htm

Through voluntary work at schools one often becomes aware of mothers who are so territorial and jealous of their children's (especially daughters) affection that the child has few friends. There can also be grounds for suspicion that the mother might be taking that physical closeness too far and has converted the child into her companion, or even her partner. Shouldn't the definition of violence also consider the advantage that some women do take of their offspring? - Emotional blackmail is violence is it not?
Posted by onthebeach, Friday, 27 June 2014 2:46:09 PM
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