RADAR ALERT: Crying "Wolf" Too Many Times

Years ago, radical advocates told America that Super Bowl Sunday resulted in very high rates of domestic violence. Last year, the world was convinced that 40,000 female sex slaves would be smuggled to Germany for the World Cup Finals. Radical women's studies departments and students annually celebrate "V-day", a dark substitute for Valentine's Day, to stop rape and sexual abuse of campus women purported to be endemic. Hysteria arose over claims that "date rape" is commonplace. And the Violence Against Women Act is built on the notion that if women are ever violent, it is solely in self-defense.

History proves all the above claims are substantively false. It is time for legislators and the media to expect more than theory or unsupported statistics before playing the fool for radical women's advocates.

Here is the truth on the above issues:

Domestic violence rates for Super Bowl Sunday are only marginally higher than normal (http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/977.html).

German police reported finding only five cases of sex slavery associated with the world cup (http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2850).

V-Day has been proven to be little more than a self-aggrandizing event to promote feminist values and irrational fear of men.

More recently, the "date rape" myth has been exposed for what it is: a way for binge-drinking women to conveniently and profitably pass the blame
(http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23385868-details/Drug rape myth exposed as study reveals binge drinking is to blame/article.do).

No major study has ever demonstrated that domestic violence is caused by gender of the offender: men and women are equal initiators of
serious domestic violence (http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm).

Politicians and journalists who disregard science do great damage to society, families, and children (http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/VAWA-Threat-to-Families.pdf).

Witch hunts have never helped anyone. Journalists can make front-page headlines and do a great service publishing the truth rather than serving as megaphones for the rumor mill so accustomed to leveraging ill-begotten federal entitlements by crying wolf.

Please send this Alert to your local media and politicians. It is important they learn to avoid being a part of the anti-family rumor mill.

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Date of RADAR Release: February 27, 2007

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R.A.D.A.R. – Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting – is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of men and women working to improve the effectiveness of our nation's approach to solving domestic violence. http://www.mediaradar.org/.