There he goes again!!

R0bert's off on his pet project - promoting the thoroughly discredited Conflicts Tactics Scale.

For heaven's sake. Give it a break, R0bert! The only reason this academic rubbish has been given so much traction is because it has received a lot of support, financial and otherwise, by the menz rights advocacy backlash industry.

For anyone else who'd like to get some balance on this, there are several academic articles that discredit the CTS, if you can Google your way past all the right-wing anti-feminist MRA rubbish on the Web(virtually all of which R0bert was kind enough to provide for us).

Also, over the last three years, I have been a major support for a close friend whose ex-husband brought false DV and child abuse charges against her after she left him. I can assure everyone here that she received absolutely no special privileges whatever for being female. And until the police and Child Protection Agency finally woke up to him, his complaints were never ridiculed or ignored. She was also out of pocket $50,000 in legal fees before finally proving her innocence.

Ho Hum, "Meanwhile has anyone ever noticed that a mans fist is much much larger than a womans, and that men are generally larger and stronger too."

For that to be relevant you'd have to be proposing that the solution for a man with a violent spouse is to thunp her hard. Having a bigger fist or being larger or stronger is not very relevant if you want to stop being hit without hitting.

Nor is it very helpful when the act of defending yourself will be seen as an assault because you happen to be male. The current genderised approach to DV leaves men with few options, leave and risk loosing home, kids, future earnings etc, stay and put up with it or hit back and risk the first lot as well as being branded as violent.

Far better for support services and authorities to start taking female intitated violence seriously so that men with abusive partners get some support rather than being left thinking they have to sort it out themselves.

The other group that does not seem to get address in violence against women type campaigns which focus on male perpetrators is gay women with violent partners.

As for your claims about porn and sexual violence there are plenty of porn related threads around OLO, perhaps you can post some evidence for your claims on one of those threads.

R0bert

Is there anti male bias out there?

SURE IS....

I found it at my local police station in the form of a pamphlet:

"If he is violent, it is NEVER 'your' fault"

rather says it all.

SJF,

'The only reason this academic rubbish has been given so much traction is because it has received a lot of support, financial and otherwise, by the menz rights advocacy backlash industry.'

Hmmm. I wonder why the same never seems to apply according to you when something is supported by a feminist organisation...

Boaz is EXACTLY RIGHT.

It is NEVER EVER the fault of the person who is being bashed.

It is always and only the "fault" or responsibility of the basher, regardless of the verbal provocation.
The basher pretending to be the "victim"----she MADE me do it.

Verbal abuse never ever really hurts anyone. It can be quite offensive and humiliating, to say the least, but it NEVER fundamentally hurts anyone.

We are all, each and every one us, responsible for our actions and reactions.

There is NO one to blame. Realising this is the foundation of human maturity.

And besides which according to the patriarchal script that Boaz subscribes too, men are supposed to be the "superior" sex with a capacity for self-control and self-restraint. To be in control and not the "victims" of their emotions.
The head of the family who must be obeyed. Part of "god's" prescription or plan for the relatios between the sexes---or so the "scriptures" tell us.
But whose interpretation of the "scripture"?

Roger, thank you. You show such guts & resolve to expose the truth on DV that the mass media hide. DV is a feminist controlled industry and as such has no interest in stopping DV for obvious reasons.
If all male related DV ceased in Aust today all the hidden abuse by women would not only continue but increase.