despite the vulgar feminist (Jane whatshername) sprouting her garbage on Q&A you will find far less violence in married households than defactos, homosexual couples etc. Just an inconvenient fact. The irony is that the same fools that speak of married woman being prostitutes are the supporters of perverted marriage.

Just having women ahead of you on the golf course is enough for one to have a domestic violent thought, golf ladies not everything else but golf.

I'm relieved to deduce, by reading the many posts here deriding the article, that clearly none of these men have ever laid a hand on anybody and therefore cannot imagine that these are facts.

I'd like to remind some of you blokes, that not until 1989 did it become illegal to rape a wife in Qld. SA was the first place in the ENGLISH speaking world to make rape within marriage illegal. And that was in 1976. Therefore, as Jane Caro pointed out, it could be construed and was so by the law, the spouse brought home the bacon and he had the right to demand sexual favours whenever he wanted it.

Robert, I often agree with what you say, but I'm wondering what is behind your insistence, whenever the violence against women comes up, that Domestic Violence is also perpetuated by women. Of course it is. Overwhelmingly this is verbal and psychological, and believe me I've seen an evil narcisstic woman in action over a number of years. I hope you are not trying to create justification for personal physical violence in retaliation of verbal violence.

When a woman is beaten up, she is asked why didn't she leave. When a man is in an abusive relationship, why doesn't he leave? Hitting her is not a solution.

Yvonne:
I'm relieved to deduce, by reading the many posts here deriding the article, that clearly none of these men have ever laid a hand on anybody and therefore cannot imagine that these are facts.

What kind of logic is that? You have to be violent in order to know that violence exists? No one is denying that the violence takes place or that the statistics are not true. The point is that the author has said nothing that has not been said ad nausea and until he has something new or relevant to say then his article is simply boring at best and self-indulgent at worst. The whole issue of domestic violence is far too important for people to be using it to promote their own personal issues. When someone harps on and on about something it says more about them than the issue they pretend to be interested in.

It is time for talking to be moderated and for action to begin. Women can solve this problem by simply refusing to be involved in domestic relationships with men where one of them will be killed every week and one third of them will surely be beaten up. This is the reality that this author is describing and countless others have done so before him. How many times does it have to be said before women take control of their own lives? If they have so little self respect that they are prepared to flout those odds then they have bigger problems than domestic violence to deal with. How many other areas of their life does such lack of self respect permeate

yvonne

Hands up which man has never been insulted or ridiculed by a woman, or never been slapped or hit by a woman?

I can’t think of any man, myself included.

I was first insulted, ridiculed, slapped and hit by my mother.

I have been insulted, ridiculed, slapped and hit by women many times since.

I have worked with many men over many years, and only at school (in the long distant past) was I ever slapped or hit by a male, and even then I was not insulted or ridiculed much.

I would be an average sort of guy (although very handsome, wise and virile), but by far the most insults, ridicules, slaps and hits I have received have come from women.

I feel there is an extortion process occurring.

Demonise men, and that makes it easier to get money from men.

Obviously the author is simply sprouting feminist rhetoric, (and may not even realise it).

But the portrayal of men as women bashers by feminism is a part of the process of making it easier for women to control men, and get more money from men

And that was in 1976.
yvonne,
Isn't that around the time Australia got the first queer Premier ?