A Child's Vision Of War

	posted by Scott on Wednesday December 20, @10:42PM from the boys/young-men dept.
	David Byron writes "This article by the New York Times [free registration required] talks about how young boys are used in warfare in Colombia. As an issue I find that the treatment of men and boys in the third world is probably the last thing to be mentioned on men's sites. In a sense this is good, because it is a humanitarian issue not a gendered issue, but feminists have framed the third world as an area where only women are oppressed and it simply isn't true."

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Sure? (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Thursday December 21, @05:15PM EST (#1) David, do the statistics really say men abuse children more than women? I'd like to see those. Do you have a reference? Most figures I read say the opposite. For example, Farrell in Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say cites a study of confirmed child abuse showing that mothers committed the abuse 58% of the time, fathers 16%, and both parents 13% (Child Abuse and Neglect, V 8, Issue 4, 1984, pp. 503-9). I haven't looked this source up, but it coincides with the other figures I've read. So your comment caught my attention.

You meant to reply to the sex abuse article? (Score:1) by David Byron on Thursday December 21, @09:42PM EST (#2) (User #111 Info) http://www.feminismontrial.webprovider.com/index.htm I beleive the distinction here is between child SEX abuse and child abuse (which includes domestic violence for example). Feminists tend to talk only about child sex abuse because the figures show these are mostly men -- and no I haven't investigated either figure in depth. Its just one more way of massaging the figures to present women as victims and men as violent. Another example, speaking of domestic violence, is how feminists won't include figures for adults beating children, or for adults beating the elderly, but concentrate on partner violence. Women dominate both of these ignored categories. In fact the entire reason they look at domestic violence at all is because it is the ONLY area of violent crime where women can be made to look worse off than men. Not to say that it isn't an important issue, but I am against using humanitarian issues as a political tool to support discrimination and hate. I should also say that I don't think the fact that elderly abuse and child abuse are mostly by women in any way reflects badly on women as a whole. Today's bogus statistics are tommorrow's state sponsored discrimination. Feminist myths and factoids are regularly trotted out in support of their sexist legislation. There's more to this than just arguing over numbers, when feminists will use those numbers as sex war propaganda.

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