Onthebeach, surely other forms of domestic violence that you brought up would be hard to quantify in any survey or statistic?

By its very nature, domestic violence is violence that occurs between family members within their homes, and often behind closed doors.

Anyone can do any number of 'surveys', but at the end of the day, how do we know the respondents are answering truthfully.... whether male or female?

Thus, the most usual indicators of the level of domestic violence in a family is the actual injuries they receive in physical confrontations, although they still lie in these situations too.

I still don't understand why more academics, male and female, don't include men in their surveys more often. Could it be that men are far more reluctant to talk about these sorts of problems.

I doubt it is all these apparently radical feminists in universities in such huge numbers that they overtake the male academics views, and that they seem to spend all their professional time trying to denigrate men!

I imagine they have many more important subjects to research...

See you all on another thread.

What the documentary demonstrated is that the gender theory that is the rock upon which much feminist though is based is complete bollocks, an invention without fact.

Research that was supposed to support gender theory is flawed and the very people who used those conclusions in advising public policy likely knew it all along.

The documentary also showed that feminism is highly politicised and any who challenge or disagree with it are ruthlessly attacked.

'thought' not 'though'

Dear onthebeach,

There are many things that are ruthlessly attacked
by the ignorant, boorish, or downright nasty as we all
know. However our conversations need to shift away from
the mass, infantile finger-pointing that now
pervades our society. It isn't conservatives, liberals,
or even feminists who are ruining things. It is the
tendency on so many people's parts to think that their
way is the right way and that people who disagree with
them are bad.

Therefore it is important that we renew dignified and
respectful dialogue with those who do not agree with us
than that we keep slavishly congratulating those who
have the wisdom to see things our way.

Lexi,

Gender theory was proved to be a massive fraud perpetrated against the taxpayer and mankind. There is no evidence to support it at all.

Might as well allow fraudsters, spivs and quacks to bloom.

Dear onthebeach,

I beg to differ with your opinion.

Alone among living creatures, human beings are
fully self-aware - capable of inquiring and
reflecfting about themselves.

Throughout history, our ancestors pondered human
nature as it seemed to reveal itself in the social
life of our species. Why do human beings form
families, and why do they worship gods? Why is the
way of life of one group so different from that of
another? What makes some people break social rules
while others obey them? What makes one group go to
war with another? What might a human being who had not
been riased in the company of other people be like?
What holds societies together, and why do all societies
continually change over time? How different are the
sexes? What about sex and personality? Male-female
interaction? Gender sociolization, Men, women, jobs,
Gender roles today, Sexism, and so on.

Until quite recently the answers to these and
similar questions came from intuition, from speculation,
and from the dead weight of myth, superstition, and
"folk" wisdom handed down from the past.

Only in the course of the past century or so
has a new method been applied to the study of human
society and social behaviour - the method of
science which provides answers drawn from facts
collected by systematic research. This new mode of
inquiry has produced the lively discipline of sociology.

Sociology is the scientific study of human society and
social behaviour. Its subject matter is huge, complex,
and varied and the knowledge produce by
sociological research remains imperfect in many ways.

Yet, in the brief time that the discipline has been in
existence, it has taught us a great deal about urselves
that we could never have learned by relying on
speculation alone. We have learned to conceive of
human beings and social life in an entirely new way.
A way that many have found and will continue to find
simetimes disconcerting, yet often fascinating.