Posted on 12/03/2012 5:43:28 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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Oh give me a break, puhleeez.
“violence against men is anecdotal, largely because of the lack of funding to study the problem”
hahahaha
how about because few are reported, maybe because few are happening
I once knew a guy (appropriately nicknamed “Flaco”) who was married to a woman twice his size who used to kick his arse on a regular basis. When he complained to his FIL he kicked his arse for being a skinny wuss.
Tiger Woods is a damn poor example.
He got what was coming to him, and it should have been more.
Please explain.
What about psychological abuse? When, in every “argument” the wife threatens to call the police and take the children away? Did they study that?
I know for a fact that some women will beat themselves with their fists or other such ‘tools’ to produce bruises, black eyes, cuts, scratches and anything else that would tend to support their claims that a man had been the perpetrator.
They know that if they play the domestic abuse card well enough, that the man will be ordered out of his own home and possibly put into jail where he’ll lose his job, his kids and otherwise good reputation. Meanwhile, the alleged victim can continue living in the home with standing protection orders while the bills are still being paid by the incarcerated home and property owner.
They are smart in a bad way...A VERY bad way. They’re a menace to society.
And what about the sheer emotional violence perpetrated by wives whenever they give their hubbies “The Look”?
That’s another 50 years down the road. Study the physical abuse first.....NOT that the psychological abuse leads to the physical, or anything like that. /s
I have noticed a greater public evidence of the violence in younger women and teenage girls towards each other (friends!) and towards guys. Go through facebook and read how they post.
Typically, men act out, but women do other things. Women are no less evil than men and watch, it will get worse, especially with the effects of the media portraying men as dumb and dumber.
You scoff, but if a guy is being beaten or verbally abused, and he won’t even ask for directions, do you really think he is going to say a word about it? We can’t even get our depressed and stressed vets to talk to their buddies about it. We lose 1 veteran to suicide every 18 hours. Guys just don’t talk! Finding them and getting them back on track is the greatest challenge.
A member of our family had his life nearly ruined by a vengeful druggie wife who falsely accused him of violence. It took many months of legal fees to fight off the charges even though she was sent to jail twice for drugs and embezzlement.
Finally he got sole custody of the kids and then it took another year to get the restraining order on him removed.
Women/wives now have the power to ruin the life of any man..with no evidence with one phone call to 911 and one court appearance for a restraining order.
The man is assumed guilty..no evidence of violence needed..just her word.
I disagree. If a man has been raised to never hit a woman and a woman beats on him, most won’t hit back.
I read a legal board and on domestic violence if the law is called it is the man who gets arrested unless he is bleeding or something. It doesn’t matter who calls the law.
In divorce and custody cases one of the first accusations is physical abuse and then it is up to the man to prove that he didn’t abuse. They take the position that the man really COULD hurt the little wifey or the children and just the accusation is enough to raise real questions.
The lesson here, as unbelievable as it may seem to some, is one sex isn’t morally superior to the other.
Now that it’s not a current topic, and not something to be really cranked up about one way way or the other, Tiger actually is a good example.
He cheated on her, repeatedly. Ok, so she can walk out the door, call a lawyer and collect a few hundred million she had nothing to do with creating, etc.
But she smashed him in the face with a golf iron as he sat facing away from her on the sofa.
If he hit her in the head with an iron the same way, he would have been arrested for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
In your mind, he should have been attacked worse? Amazing.
“If a man has been raised to never hit a woman and a woman beats on him, most won’t hit back”.
I agree. I know personally one man that was abused by his wife. To be fair, he wasn’t a “typical” person. By that, I mean he was born a preemie, was short in stature, petite in frame, and wore hearing aids. He married a gal who was short.. but four inches taller than he is and weighed at least 100+ pounds heavier. Long story short, she hospitalized him several times. Finally, his sister visited him in the hospital and asked him what she feared (but no one ever questioned or asked aloud). Could he have defended himself? Yes. However, he was raised to never, EVER hit a woman. He made his sister promise him that she would never tell their Father. He was ashamed but tried to stay married (Catholic). He finally left her and filed for divorce when his sister asked him if he wanted to be buried next to their Mother or closer to her. To be honest, after the stitches, broken eye orbit, broken clavical... it was just a matter of time. Happy ending of the story is he is remarried to a nice woman with two children.
“if the law is called it is the man who gets arrested unless he is bleeding or something”
Even if he’s bleeding, the cops will say his injuries were caused by the woman defending herself against his attack. No kidding.
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