My Letter to the Australian
Posted by: "PartTimeParent" PartTimeParent@pobox.com parttimeparent
Mon Sep 4, 2006 6:35 am (PST)
I was disappointed to see The Australian publish a one-sided piece of domestic violence propaganda. Here is my reply.
(PS Some of you will recognise parts I have copied from other posts... I don't mind anybody using my work for the cause, I hope nobody is offended)
Letters to the Editor
I am disappointed to read Kellie Bisset's one-sided piece, "Dealing with Domestic Abuse" (Australian Sept 2nd). Her article beats the familiar drum about an epidemic of abuse of women. The problem with this is summarised with the old saying, "If you look hard enough for something, eventually you find it".
It is obvious that the most abused thing is not women, but the truth.
Domestic violence statistics are wonderfully rubbery. The misuse of statistics by Feminasties (Nasty Feminists) who have latched on to domestic violence as proof of their theories of men as patriarchal abusers and women as their victims.
In hospitals in Sydney, NSW for instance, women presenting to hospitals with injuries must by law be asked questions about domestic violence. Men presenting with injuries to hospitals are asked no such questions. The results - by law - are therefore completely skewed. This is the source of the figures Kellie quoted.
The recently released Personal Safety Survey by the trusted Australian Bureau of Statistics. Is one of many studies that ask women and men about violence. And guess what? The figures are as you expect, men are more often the victims of violence than women, not the other way around.
Approximately one in 10 men (10%) and one in 20 women (4.7%) experienced physical violence (includes being threatened or assaulted) according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics survey.
This reflects the balanced research from around the world that shows that men and women are pretty much equally likely to be the perpetrator, or victim of domestic violence.
A useful summary of this research examines 189 scholarly investigations: 146 empirical studies and 43 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 174,300.
The most precious and most vulnerable people in our society are our children. What is really disturbing is the fact the the vast majority of abuse of children is perpetrated by women. No one is condoning domestic violence. But no social problem is solved by the one-eyed misuse of statistics or by the advocacy research of the well funded "nasty feminists".
A useful summary of FemiNasty myths are refuted below (for the full list, email James Adams)
James ADAMS (PartTimeParent)
Media - www.Fathers4equalit y-Australia. org
PartTimeParent@ pobox.com
Ph 0417 258 364 Sydney, Australia
Mon Sep 4, 2006 6:35 am (PST)
I was disappointed to see The Australian publish a one-sided piece of domestic violence propaganda. Here is my reply.
(PS Some of you will recognise parts I have copied from other posts... I don't mind anybody using my work for the cause, I hope nobody is offended)
Letters to the Editor
I am disappointed to read Kellie Bisset's one-sided piece, "Dealing with Domestic Abuse" (Australian Sept 2nd). Her article beats the familiar drum about an epidemic of abuse of women. The problem with this is summarised with the old saying, "If you look hard enough for something, eventually you find it".
It is obvious that the most abused thing is not women, but the truth.
Domestic violence statistics are wonderfully rubbery. The misuse of statistics by Feminasties (Nasty Feminists) who have latched on to domestic violence as proof of their theories of men as patriarchal abusers and women as their victims.
In hospitals in Sydney, NSW for instance, women presenting to hospitals with injuries must by law be asked questions about domestic violence. Men presenting with injuries to hospitals are asked no such questions. The results - by law - are therefore completely skewed. This is the source of the figures Kellie quoted.
The recently released Personal Safety Survey by the trusted Australian Bureau of Statistics. Is one of many studies that ask women and men about violence. And guess what? The figures are as you expect, men are more often the victims of violence than women, not the other way around.
Approximately one in 10 men (10%) and one in 20 women (4.7%) experienced physical violence (includes being threatened or assaulted) according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics survey.
This reflects the balanced research from around the world that shows that men and women are pretty much equally likely to be the perpetrator, or victim of domestic violence.
A useful summary of this research examines 189 scholarly investigations: 146 empirical studies and 43 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 174,300.
The most precious and most vulnerable people in our society are our children. What is really disturbing is the fact the the vast majority of abuse of children is perpetrated by women. No one is condoning domestic violence. But no social problem is solved by the one-eyed misuse of statistics or by the advocacy research of the well funded "nasty feminists".
A useful summary of FemiNasty myths are refuted below (for the full list, email James Adams)
James ADAMS (PartTimeParent)
Media - www.Fathers4equalit y-Australia. org
PartTimeParent@ pobox.com
Ph 0417 258 364 Sydney, Australia
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