A woman's mental image of lesbians fighting:
Posted on 08/30/2010 2:37:01 AM PDT by RogerFGay
A series of high-profile cases of lesbian-perpetrated domestic violence has sent shock-waves through Massachusetts communities in recent months:
1. On February 16, a Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted Nicole Chuminski on two counts of second-degree murder, following a fire that killed the two daughters of her lover Anna Reisopoulos. During a heated argument between the two, Chuminski reportedly fell into a fit of rage. A few hours later Chuminski returned to her partner’s apartment and hurled an acetone-laden firebomb into the front door.
Sophia and Acia, ages 2 and 14, were burned beyond recognition, so dental records were needed for positive identification.
2. On March 29 Annamarie Rintala of Granby, Mass. was found dead by strangulation in the basement of the house she shared with her domestic partner Cara. Cara had been previously charged with domestic violence after she struck Annamarie in the back of the head with a closed fist.
3. Eunice Field of Brockton, Mass. found herself on the losing end of a bitter ménage à trois. So on August 9 she marched to the apartment of Lorraine Wachsman. There she grabbed a serrated knife and stabbed Wachsman in the back and neck. Dispelling any doubt about her intentions, she then penned a note admitting she had killed Waschsman “for taking away the love of my life.”
Ms. Field is now being held without bail pending a September 3 court appearance.
Experts on lesbian domestic violence were shocked, but honestly not surprised by these incidents. Last November a report by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported a 125% increase in domestic violence fatalities in lesbian and gay couples around the country during the prior year. According to Beth Leventhal of The Network/La Red of Boston, “partner abuse in LGBT communities can be just as lethal as that in heterosexual communities.”
Ms. Leventhal’s commentary actually understates the extent of the problem. Earlier this year the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research published the results of a survey of over 51,000 California adults . The UCLA study found 28% of persons in lesbian/gay relationships had experienced intimate partner violence, compared to 17% of persons in heterosexual relationships.
It’s also believed that lesbians are more likely to engage in partner violence than gay men. According to the Boston Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project, one in three homosexual women experience partner aggression, compared to only one in four homosexual men. Kaitlin Nichols of The Network/La Red notes, “The myth of women’s communities as safe communities has prevented many women from reaching out for support. If they have shared what is happening, they are met with disbelief from their community.”
And why are lesbians more likely to abuse?
According to Nomi Porat, an abuse-prevention expert, the reason is poor limit-setting: “An issue common to women, particularly battered women, is the fear of demanding physical and emotional boundaries. In part, battered lesbians are afraid their lovers will leave or become more violent if any limitations are set in the relationship.”
A nearly impenetrable double wall serves to keep lesbian battering tucked away in the proverbial closet. The first wall is the stigmatization invoked by lesbians themselves who believe in a sort of same-sex utopia, the feminist belief that maintains female-female relationships are inherently more peaceful, gentle, and “pure,” compared to male-female relationships.
In Naming the Violence: Speaking out About Lesbian Battering, Barbara Hart maintains that female batterers should be subjected to a form of shunning by the lesbian community: “one of the consequences of [female batterers’] violence is that they may have to limit any contact with the person they assaulted/abused. This may mean that the batterer cannot attend public gatherings or movement meetings.”
The second wall is the broader domestic violence industry that maintains a cult-like belief in the notion of patriarchal sexism, the theory that men abuse their wives due to an innate and irrepressible urge to oppress women. So every time a woman pummels, rapes, or otherwise abuses her female partner, the patriarchal dominance theory takes a body-blow.
These ideological blinders serve to justify shelters policies that turn away of needy women. According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, the problem of abuse shelters that discriminate on the basis of gender identity is widespread.
Intimate partner aggression is not a problem limited to any particular sex, or gender identity, or economic group. Indeed, research shows women are at least as likely as men to engage in partner abuse.When the Sisterhood gets over its denial of the truth, we’ll stop seeing so many women and men victimized by domestic violence.
A woman's mental image of lesbians fighting:
This is a good point, but the American people are now conditioned to accept the homosexuals with “equality.” Because “equality” is taught everywhere, and the American people like to be “liked.”
Many men who are charged with spousal abuse are men who fought back when attacked by the wife.
...we had a similar incident several years ago...two lesbians went out bar crawling then parked at a lovers lane....they argued, then fought, and one strangled the other to death with her bare hands...at the trial, the judge called the killer ‘pure evil’
Cherrypicked gibberish.
How does comparing one FEMALE subgroup to one MALE subgroup make any meaningful point? It’s apples and oranges, plus the focus is too narrow. Perhaps deliberately so.
No useful conclusions can be derived without looking at a wider spectrum of demographic and cultural groupings. Then perhaps they can arrive at meaningful comparisons.
Everybody knows ***** makes people crazy.
Your post is gibberish. Subgroups? Demographics and culture? Pure psychobabble. It was a study based on the mental illness called homosexuality and their tendency toward violence. I have a brother that’s “gay”. I used to “gay” bar hop with him and his friends. And they ARE violent. And unstable.
Actually, it’s extremely relevant within the context of social and legal policy debate. And BTW: There were at least 3 comparisons. Don’t forget the heteros. Now, maybe I’m just naive, but that seems like a pretty full comparison. Cherry picking not.
The inability to maintain stable relationships may be why they spend their lives picking up one night stands in bars.
Lesbians and homosexual Men are both very violent it isn’t just sex that makes the screwed up critters.
Another factor: A lot of women are lesbian BECAUSE they come from abusive backgrounds (For instance, the father abused them, so they have difficulty forming initimate relationships with men). That’s not saying it’s a singular cause, but it is a factor.
Homosexuality is a mental disorder.
Pray for America
After I read the article, I could not help but feel that those who engage in this type of sinful behavior must suffer the consequences of it. Because so many of these couples include a partner that looks just like a man, there is every reason to suspect that their mimicry of one would include the very worst of what they perceive as a masculine trait, dominance. It is a revolting lifestyle and those who embrace it are equally so.
My cousin is gay and lives with his partner, and I agree with you to a point. The violence is often manifest from self-loathing. In my cousin's case, he was a closet homo for most of his youth, and he tried to take his life several times before he finally came out and everyone in our family accepted him as-is. His despondency never went away, it just migrated to a new subject: his partners.
I would bet that many guys aren't proud of what they're doing, but as the social experiment of liberalism continues to grip our country, it will grow to be socially acceptable, and this sort of behavior will likely wane.
Sad really. Violence against another of the same gender, regardless of relationship, is really hardwired in us. Women keep away other women to ensure they have exclusive access to the male's breeding and relational benefits while men fight other men for dominance and show. Two men or two women being together in a relationship is completely counter to natural order, IMHO.
That makes sense, as well as a flipped explanation for why men become homosexual. It kinda ruins their claim that their biology made them that way from birth though.
Also, another indicator of the lower life expectancy of homosexuals.
sorry, not lesbians
those are guys
These folks are not normal. There was a time when this type of behavior was considered to be deviant. No matter what the MSM would have us believe it is still deviant.
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