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Police departments all over the country have been "sensitized" to assume men are predators and women are victims. Watch Sylvester Stallone's portrayal of a sheriff in "Copland" and you get a true representation of the way police officers behave in these situations.
In the scene to which I am referring, Stallone approaches the house of another police officer, the wife of whom he loves. The husband is seated on his front step, bleeding profusely from his skull. The wife is standing at the door, uninjured. Stallone's character offers to take the wife away from her "abusive" husband. The wife actually admits to Stallone's character that she was responsible for the violence, that she hit her husband. Nothing happens to her.
In my own experience, I was priveleged to sit through six weeks of Citizens' Police Academy training in my hometown. The week we talked about DV, one officer in the classroom kept consistently referring to the perpetrator as "he" and the victim as "she." When I objected, they said that "women commit domestic violence, too, but it's far less often than men."
One good thing about the class, though, is that when they distributed their statistics sheet, the percentages of victims were NOT broken down by sex. I have no idea how accurate the numbers were (if at all).
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by Anonymous User on Tuesday July 31, @12:23PM EST (#2)
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I wanted to send the relevant police department a message, asking them to change their web site. The "contact us" link is not functioning. The problem with men's issues is that there is nothing to "do". All avenues lead to dead ends. My response to this is to buy bumper stickers and spend time thinking about how to insulate myself and my family from this predatory police state, and wait out this difficult time. In other words, to let someone else do the work.
Seems to me, there will be few changes until there is a way for people to "do" something.
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While it is sometimes diffiicult to find a proper course of action, I maintain that raising awareness is one great way of doing something about men's issues. Also, letters to the editor are another great way. If your letter is printed, you've raised the awareness of a great number of people in one shot, whether they agree with you or not.
I noticed that page was produced not by the "relevant police department," but by "Caring Unlimited, Inc." The content is also copyright that company. Perhaps it is they we should be attempting to contact.
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This is like one of those rumors that keeps getting more and more exaggerated and distorted with each person who passes it along. I knew the stats were outrageous, but this blew me away. More than half of all women will be battered by their partners? Plus I loved the Vietnam comparison; this is how feminists will keep women out of Selective Service, by convincing us that women are already in Vietnam, Normandy, Germany and Japan every single day of their lives.
Nevertheless, at the very end of the article was an interesting stat I had never seen before:
A study of boys between ages 11 and 20 years who were incarcerated for homicide found 63% had killed the man who was battering their mother.
We hear about boys in abusive households growing up to batterers themselves, but this is the first I've heard of boys using their violent maleness to strike out against the abuser they grew up with to avenge and protect the women.
This talk of domestic violence stats comes at a coincidental time for me, because at my place of work, a female coworker whose computer I have to use once a week now has a Windows "wallpaper" scanned from a domestic violence poster quoting similarly grim data about women being battered every 15 seconds by "a male partner." Knowing what I know, the stats rolled right off of me. But I know of at least two other male co-workers who have had to use that computer, and I wonder, what do they think and how does it make them feel, as men? As yet, I'm still pathetically silent on men's issues with the people I know, because I'm not sure they would accept it - particularly the men. I think men have a deep-seated problem accepting that women share many of the same faults we attribute to males, for reasons I won't presume to try and explain myself on behalf of all other men. But, you know it's true - and each of us has his own reason for thriving on the fantasy of the angelic female.
But, this is one fantasy that men are just going to have to give up, because if people keep believing statistics like this, our grandsons and great-grandsons might not even be given the chance to be born into the world. Not when it's made to look like more than half of men are woman-batterers, with one of us exerting our violent masculinity approximately every fifteen seconds in the U.S. alone.
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anonymous is correct -- activists are, to an extremely limited extent, allowed to say a little about the modern american police state of misandry, but in a collective sense, there is little to "do"
in the same way that there is little one can "do" when experiencing a personal psychotic break, there are limitations as to what one can "do" when a collectivity descends into mass insanity ... here history is the teacher
one must revolt in little ways, and wait until the psychosis reaches such an intolerable level that a full-scale breakdown occurs ... and america is still a long way from hitting bottom
american men are caught between the mass imprisonment and cultural terrorism of the right's toxic king and the left's empowered witch ... american men have become so addicted to female touch, sex, and emotional support on one hand, and material goodies on the other, that most are paralyzed ... before we can break the grip of the powers, we must break our own addictions
as in psychosis, america has made war upon itself, cannibalized itself ... this is the prelude, and the spur, which precedes the freeing of the masculine from its chains
mass mobilization is currently premature ... the culture would simply increase censorship, propaganda, repressions, and imprisonment of the masculine
what then can the masculine "do"? for the moment, we can only cease supporting the madness -- which means rejecting, withdrawing from, and protesting the institutional and relational misandry of the culture
the last thing the powers want is free men, for then their house of marked cards comes a'tumbling down ... we must make it clear in every aspect of our daily lives that we will not submit to political, legal, and cultural totalitarianism ... the nigger must walk away from the fields, and let missus and massa know he will no longer serve on maggie's farm
until we do this, the whip will continue to fall, and the mancages to overflow
mass mobilization of the masculine will never be allowed, even if american men had the nads for it, which they do not ... therefore revolt in ways subtle, small and myriad, and bleed the beast by means of the "death of a thousand cuts"
no word or deed done in pursuit of freedom is ever useless ... the mark is always found, even if invisible to you ... get busy speaking and doing, expose the madness with intensity, persistence, and ultimate good will, and do not expect instant gratification of your efforts
ray remark
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