Rosie Batty and the Greens exchange mutual love.

A courtship for a Senate seat in the future?

The problem with the deluth model is that some people want to pretend that it is a complete explanation for all domestic violence. Somewhere, some time, some place, a man has used DV because he felt entitled to control a partner. However, the majority of the time, DV is the result of a combination of stressors making a dispute get overheated.

Rosie Batty seems like a lovely person, but the amount of publicity that her case has generated smacks of missing white woman syndrome. There is nothing wrong with being white or middle class. However, if she belonged to any other demographic or if the violence had been reciprocal, we would never have heard of her. The cases that get publicised tell us little about the broader pattern of DV.

The Duluth model was developed by a small group of feminists with five women and 4 men as subjects.

The feminist speculation* underlying the Duluth Model is that "domestic violence is the result of patriarchal ideology in which men are encouraged and expected to control their partners", that men use violence within relationships to exercise power and control.

*to call it a 'theory' would be to debase science. However it is typical of the sloppy, self-serving research of the womens movement.

Why is bunkum necessary anyhow? It is a misleading as Dr Phil's pop psychology. Worth saying too that Dr Phil isn't qualified either to do what he does. It is entertainment. However audiences wrongly put their trust and even reverence in anything that can be masqueraded as 'research' or 'science'.

The Box and the tabloid media are riddled examples of with junk 'science' and politically correct BS.

In a tense situation you can escalate or deescalate. Feminism has been training women to escalate the tension & then pointing to the alleged "evidence" that "all men are bastards".

All 3 of my exes were abused by their own mothers & were abusive, violent, control freaks because of it.

Closing down all funding to these services & increasing funding to mental health would work much better.