Adam Blanch

‘Killarney, not a single one of your statistics is correct.'

OK. Here are some more ‘incorrect’ statistics. More than 95% of murder suicides are committed by men on women. Men are more than 30 times more successful at killing themselves than women are. Mass murders in the suburbs are entirely committed by men (unless you can find one that isn't). And on it goes ...

And here is another ‘incorrect’ statistic. While we are lectured to ad nauseum by the current government about how we have to cut back on all our profligate spending, that same government has committed us to spend $20 billion dollars on weapons systems (aka male-operated killing machines) just for this year alone.

This is so that Australia can participate in the wargame fantasies of the most macho superpower on earth, which is hell bent on creating a ‘potential’ zone of conflict in the Asia-Pacific sphere. That’s $20 billion committed to simply giving more men more opportunity to engage in legitimised male violence, which for future generations will be wrapped up in pretty euphemisms like ‘valour’ and ‘honour’ and ‘mateship’ and ‘defence of the realm’ and ‘international security’.

But no, people like you think the problem is all about women ‘taking responsibility’ for their part in the ‘human drama of history’ – even though men have violently excluded women from history for millennia.

You think it’s all a matter of making women take responsibility for the fact that some of them chase their hubbies around the house with a rolling pin from time to time and that many mothers make their kids' lives miserable with emotional abuse.

Fine. You've got plenty of sympathetic company.

This article is extremely biased towards men and in no way wants to come up with answers for reducing domestic violence in our community, but rather seeks to blame women.

I really don't care about 'studies' that tell us that , apparently, there are all these violent women out there that are really at the crux of the domestic violence problem, and that all the poor men are just unfairly vilified.

What a load of toss!

The only evidence I go by are the undeniable crime statistics that show that women are by far the most likely to be more seriously injured and/or die in DOMESTIC violence encounters than men are.

Suse

Agree. These so-called studies are basically 'proving' that water runs up hill. They fly in the face of every basic law of existence, not to mention common sense.

Men are overwhelmingly the perpetrators of violence against everything and everyone. The reasons are either biological or cultural.

I don't go with the biological factor (good old testosterone theory), because the vast majority of men are not violent - indeed, utterly incapable of it.

That leaves cultural factors as the obvious cause. There are a lot of ways to deal with this - denial is not one of them, neither are conspiracy theories about feminists vilifying men to further their own agendas.

As you say ... what a load of toss!

Suzie are you deliberately misrepresenting what people are saying or are you so focussed on the mantra that you refuse to read what is written. I know I'm probably wasting my effort with you on this but yet again the point is not about blaming women, its that gender is not the issue in DV. There are a whole bunch of otherfactors predominately to blame including the fact that some people are thugs.

Whats not about reducing DV is the continued attempts to make it a male thing to help the womens political plays. DV is harder to stop reduce because of the efforts of the Killarneys of the world who I know how the figures are made up, twisted, misrepresented etc but it suits their agenda. You I suspect really believe their spin.

If you want to do something to reduce DV take of the gendered blinkers and accept that human beings have failings regardless of their gender.

R0bert

"On domestic violence, no one wants to hear the truth"
- a very interesting article in Canada's National Post

A snippet,
"University of British Columbia psychology professor Don Dutton, is acknowledged by his peers as a world expert on IPV. He has proven, over and over again -- most recently in his definitive 2006 book, Rethinking Domestic Violence -- that the tendency to violence in intimate relationships is bilateral and rooted in individual dysfunction: Men and women with personality disorders and/or family histories of violence are equally likely to be violent themselves, or seek violent partners.

But Dutton's scientific credentials and extensive 25-year archive of peer-reviewed research cut no ice with Canadian policymakers, none of whom has ever solicited his advice.

Instead, pseudo-science absolving women of violent impulses, delivered on demand to interest groups by the same tiny, incestuous coterie of ideologically sympathetic professionals, is routinely applied in training police, family law judges, social workers and women's shelter personnel.

A lazy, politically correct media dutifully spreads the party line by reporting uncritically on bogus selection-biased "studies" by non-accredited stakeholders, who extrapolate to the general population data that are based on testimonials from men in court-mandated therapy programs or women in shelters."

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=a41532d6-d4df-46a2-a784-f6499938f3b0

It strikes me that most people don't know the difference between women & females & men & males.
Then we have the third sex, the asexuals who are harboured by the public service.
Combined, they make up a considerable voting force against men & women.