U.S. Grapples with Domestic Violence Problem
more “women are bred to be victims” bullshit:
DUMFRIES, Va., (Reuters) – Joanna’s estranged husband had been mentally abusing her and threatening her for years, but he never lifted a hand against her until one morning in 2002 when he attacked her with a knife in front of their 5-year-old daughter, stabbing her 13 times.
do you see the auto-implied presumption that because he stabbed her there was no mental abuse headed his way. she has now become a saint — highly unlikely, given what i’ve seen of violent relationships.
Domestic violence is a huge law and order problem in the United States, and increasingly a hot political issue.
in other words, “bend over, because we’re about to make it far worse than it was.”
The statistics are somewhat unclear since many domestic assaults are never reported. However, in 1998, the U.S. Department of Justice estimated that up to 4 million women were physically abused by their intimate partners each year.
and there, in one smarmy paragraph, is the framing of the issue. “this is a problem of women being victims. poor women. asshole men.” we must have an understanding, says the article.
“One in every four women will be a victim of intimate partner violence at some time in their lives,” said Lynn Rosenthal of the National Network to End Domestic Violence.“There was a tremendous jump in the number of assaults reported following the O.J. Simpson murder trial. More and more women are reaching out for help every year,” she said.
justify that “one in four” claim? not a chance.
i don’t doubt that there were “more reports of assault.” that is the factual phrase. “jump in the number of assaults reported”? fuck you! we can’t know that. precision in language would be a start to getting this real problem turned around.
SELF-HELPThe state recently introduced a new self-help guide for women to get protective orders without needing to hire a lawyer. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said: “Domestic violence has reached alarming levels in Texas, and often victims are too frightened or too financially strapped to get the help they need.”
ha! this is what they call help? what their “ruin your boyfriend’s life” fast track does is encourage the filing of false charges, moving sexual tension into a system which merely inflames it in many cases, ensuring it sticks around even longer. and for what? so a woman can wave some worthless piece of paper at a man coming to murder her? get real. if the state were truly interested in protecting women at risk of violent attack, it would issue them guns and train them how to use them — neither of which state actions i support in a truly free land, but it would be a real preventive measure at least, and, with the man given notice, would serve to prevent his life being fucked up in the case of false charges. if he gets blown away at her house after that, good fucking riddance (yes, logistics would have to be tightened where kids were involved). if he doesn’t, the least amount of damage has been done in the name of precaution. of course, this DV religion wouldn’t even be on everybody’s radar if we had no illegal proscription against concealed carry.
In Dumfries, a suburban community 40 miles south of Washington, Kay Mathews directs Turning Points, a domestic violence program that includes a 24-hour hot-line, two short-term shelters and numerous counseling and education programs, including 18-week court-ordered courses for men who have abused their partners.
just more one-way horse shit. men are bad. woman are saints.
okay, put on your goggles for this doozy:
Police are more attuned to the problem and are now mandated to make an arrest when they are called into a domestic violence situation. The policy is to arrest the “predominant aggressor” but Mathews believes they often end up detaining a woman victim if she struck the first blow.
wow! so here we have one of these DV whores actually bitching in print because a woman who struck the first blow is arrested! it’s exactly what i said the other day; the man is characterized as the “predominant aggressor” by the jackals because he’s stronger and a man. how does that make him the “predominant aggressor”? jeez, but it’s a world of idiots. do they have any clue how much they’re fucking away the people they claim to be helping? we must strive to expose these asswipes for what they are: destructive.
In [2000], Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act which brought millions of dollars to local communities for law enforcement, prosecution and victims services.
translation: spending money on something fixes it. the usual nonsense. when the state is involved, it’s usually the other way around.
In Virginia, former Attorney General Jerry Kilgore, the presumptive Republican candidate for governor in the November election, is making domestic violence a central issue in his campaign.
hmmmm. could there be a link somewhere there?
Joanna thinks there is more the state can do. She moved to another community after her assault, but her attempts to change her daughter’s name were thwarted.“They told me I couldn’t do it without informing my ex-husband,” she said. “They are still protecting the rights of the offender rather than the victim.”
there’s no way her husband should have done what he did. however, if you want to really want to talk about abuse, let’s examine what might have been going on his mind at the time, and take a sharp look at human action, the state, and sexual relationships. is there any chance that he wanted to separate from his wife and start a new life while still maintaining contact with his kid? does anybody it hasn’t happened to have any empathy for what kind of shit picture that is for men in the US these days? does this issue have to be painted always as one in which there was nothing involved but some snapped asshole in a vacuum? i can’t believe such demented “reporting” and public nonsense swabbing passes anybody’s threshold into the land of the acceptable. DV ain’t going away as long as nothing but bullshit is thrown at it. the state is doing its usual routine here, and fools are buying into it.