Written like a true victim.

Having watched my mother beening beaten as a child I can see no problem with tought laws. Any Author using Bolt as a positive example is realy in trouble.

All I see in this piece is a men who is frighten of women in power.

An interesting summary of what may be one side of feminism.

What the author appears to fail to deal with is that almost every 'ism' lives on a bell curve. What the author describes is one end of the curve, I guess the other end of that curve is people who consider themselves feminist but who think the work is finished. In the middle lie the greater number who seek genuine equal opportunity and still believe that there are changes needed.

Mainstream feminism is hardly radical - "especially if that judge openly embraces such radical ideology as feminism.".

Perhaps some of the judges the author refers to embrace a radical form of feminism (activists tend to be more extreme than most) but I've not seen the detail on that.

What perhaps should be focussed on here is the deliberate dishonesty in the portrayal of domestic violence and child abuse in this debate.

Have a look at the stats on substantiated child abuse and consider how poorly they line up with the gendered the portrayal of the issue. http://www.abusedchildtrust.com.au/facts.htm#3

Have a read of read of feminist author Patricia Pearson's book on the issue of female violence "When She Was Bad".

Read a study on DV that tries to ensure that it's data collection is not biased - http://www.fact.on.ca/Info/dom/heady99.htm

It should not be about protecting Women and Children, rather about protecting us all from the abusers regardless of our gender or the perpetrators gender.

R0bert

Is this the weakest article ever posted on OLO? I can't remember a worse-argued, evidence-deficient opinion piece.

"Indoctrination courses"?

"Infiltrated"?

For goodness sake James, women were studying the same university courses as men in the 1960s and 1970s.

Why aren't we concerned about the blokes returning us to a communist utopia?

What an occasion for hand-wringing. The very thought of women who believe in social justice and equal rights running around as if they are entitled to join the male elite is terrifying ! What is the world coming to - men who regularly beat and kill women may actually be called to account if this rot spreads. I'm with you James. Things are out of control.