Posted on 07/13/2006 2:10:55 PM PDT by srotaG adirolF
Women hit men? Get out...that never happens. (Riiight)
And the Arabs are peaceful.
hmmm
No, she just talks about it more. Well, maybe it's the men that talk about it. Honestly, I've known more women that are violent toward men than vice versa. They knew the men wouldn't fight back or tell.
"and using force to make a partner have sex"
I thought this was called RAPE. I guess not under the microscope of political correctness.
I'm so glad we've used our empowerment to become MORE violent in relationships. It would be a shame to waste our newfound empowerment on petty things like ending prostitution, or teaching our daughters to respect themselves by what they wear and how they act.
(okay, my little rant is over)
The author seems to be confusing a new paradigm with what is actually just a new degree of honesty.
Women in abusive relationships who "switch" to the other team are often surprised to find that lesbians can be abusive too.
BRAVO!!!!
What an obvious attempt to rationalize away the results. Even if the man isn't physically intimidated, you'd better believe he's legally and socioculturally intimidated--precisely on account of the anti-male biases we all know exist (and which are quite evident in the article.)
The idea that one gender is somehow "more evil" than the other is pure, unadulterated sexism.
(Gover added. “Maybe some of these women have been abused by their partner for some time and they’re finally fighting back,” she said.)
Without any actual data, she has no problem to basically say that the men were asking for it! Nice!
Just read that title over 3 or 4 times and see if doesn't sound stupid. Does no one study grammar anymore?
Look at TV or movies. It's acceptable for women to respond to an insult with physical violence against a man.
for one thing, women tend to always feel guilty, about everything...I can certainly see women admitting that they did something or thought something even if objectively, it wasn't exactly true...and men are less ready to admit a lot of things....
not to say that today's young women aren't as a group very aggressive, impulsive, promisive, and self-centered, more so I think than 30 yrs ago....
I have a dtr that age and she has lots of friends that age, and believe me, its astounding what some of them are like...thankfully, not my dtr, who is turning out pretty well.....
bump
This study sounds heavily reliant on PC redefinitions of "abuse". "Psychological abuse" is an inherently fuzzy term, but no doubt a lot more minor stuff qualifies in the minds of today's researchers, than in the minds of researchers 50 years ago (remember, hooting at a good-looking girl walking by now counts in the "sexual assault" figures that these folks put out -- little wonder they manage to come up with stats like "4 out of 5 women have been victims of sexual assault", that are routinely repeated as fact at freshman orientation sessions all over the country, without explanation of the criteria used). And a harmless slap delivered by a small woman to a big beefy man now counts as "physical abuse".
It always has been. Throwing a corsage at the guy, yanking on his shoulder as he turns away to get him to face her again during an argument, pulling on his arm to try to prevent him from leaving, etc. All this is "physical abuse" in the minds of current-day researchers with an agenda. But it hardly would have shocked movie-goers 50 or 60 years ago.
for one thing, women tend to always feel guilty, about everything...I can certainly see women admitting that they did something or thought something even if objectively, it wasn't exactly true...and men are less ready to admit a lot of things....
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I got a different impression, my first wife died of cancer when I was 47 and when I started circulating again, most singles I met were divorced at least once. I did not meet a single woman who would admit that the divorce was her fault. In most divorces it is the woman who leaves (or forces her husband out of the house) contrary to what some would have us believe. But even those women who said they walked away all said that it was his fault. On the other hand I met several men who said that they were definitely at fault and their wives should have left them. Believe me most of the divorced women I met made it apparent in short order that they had no business ever being married. When a woman deliberately does things that a man finds very annoying and refuses to stop doing those things, and I am talking about stupid stuff like coming up with an offensive "pet name" which she insists on using even in front of others then that woman is serving notice that she is unfit for a long term relationship of any kind.
I'm remembering a friend, a sort of "gentle giant" of a guy, hard working, succesful, etc. They were in counseling and his wife was just hurling every demeaning expletive laden insult at him. He was quietly saying he couldn't take it anymore and he would have to leave the marriage if she didn't stop. The counselor is telling her, "Do you hear this Joanne, Steve is saying he is going to leave if this continues?" And she screams at the counselor, "I don't blankety blank care what the blankety blank does, he's a no good blankety blank!" So he left her.
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