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Blog for DAHM
posted by Adam on 11:30 AM March 22nd, 2004
News Trudy W Schuett writes "I've begun posting another previously-published novel of mine in blog form at The DesertLight Journal here. This is "Friends to the End", about a male victim of domestic violence. This is a subject that seldom comes to light, due to society's resistance to the idea that a man could actually be a victim. While it is fiction, I've been told by men who have been in this situation, that it is in fact, quite true to life. Readers can make a donation to the Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men at the link provided at the DLJ."

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Domestic Abuse Helpline For MEN! (Score:2)
by Luek on 04:37 PM March 22nd, 2004 EST (#1)
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Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men at the link provided at the DLJ.

I just made a donation to the Domestic Helpline For Men via Paypal and it felt great doing it. Why don't YOU give it a try and see if you get the same warm fuzzy reaction. Thanks Trudy; as always you are an inspiration in the work!

Re:Domestic Abuse Helpline For MEN! (Score:1)
by Gregory on 05:54 PM March 22nd, 2004 EST (#2)
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I want to add my thanks to Trudy. Folks who care about this issue should give to organizations like Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men and SAFE (Stop Abuse For Everyone).
Re:Domestic Abuse Helpline For MEN! (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 08:24 PM March 22nd, 2004 EST (#5)
NCFM-LA paid for an ad on His Side so that DAHM could advertise on the air and request help for 13 weeks. We fully support DAHM's request for donations toward the facility they are trying to purchase for a men's shelter. Phone calls from men to DAMH have multiplied. They are ready to build a men's shelter and provide information nationwide.

Marc
why is domestic violence singling out women (Score:1)
by toddbabin on 07:35 PM March 22nd, 2004 EST (#3)
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why is alot of websites about domestic violence mostly dealing with females as victims and claim that violence against males are rare.
Re:why is domestic violence singling out women (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 08:25 PM March 22nd, 2004 EST (#6)
"why is alot of websites about domestic violence mostly dealing with females as victims and claim that violence against males are rare.
?"


Todd:

In a nutshell,

#1 - 30 years of radical feminism

#2 - over 800 women's studies programs on college campuses

#3 - over 270 women's commissions nationwide

Men have nothing to to counter the man-hating hate agenda coming out of that infrastructure.

Ray
Re:why is domestic violence singling out women (Score:2)
by Luek on 09:50 PM March 22nd, 2004 EST (#7)
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why is alot of websites about domestic violence mostly dealing with females as victims and claim that violence against males are rare.


Men don't believe it could ever happen to them personally. And if a man does get killed or injured then he probably deserved it.


Men buying into the myth that women are the primary victims of DV and rarely the instigators of DV.


Men not being mature enough to admit publicly that a "little woman" beat them up.


Men being socialized with the misandric view that it is "manly" and a man's duty to "just take it" and never complain about pain; physically and mentally.


Men foolishly believing the myth that Western jurisprudence is the most fair and just system in the entire history of the world and whatever judgement you receive from it is the best for all.
And if anything it leans favorably toward males.

Re:why is domestic violence singling out women (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 10:54 PM March 22nd, 2004 EST (#8)
"Men not being mature enough to admit publicly that a "little woman" beat them up."

I'm guilty of that.

5 years ago, my then wife threw a bookstand into my knee with all her force, the evening I ask her for a divorce to get away from her violence. I went down like a sack of potatoes, but "hey," I'm a big tough man, and a few days later I was at work (on crutches). Somebody has to pay the bills.

I'll never forget that day my bosses (who could see I was on crutches) said they needed my to check some mechanical stuff that was on the roof of a 3 story bldg. that was under construction. I was hoping they would see I was on crutches and give me a break, but they didn't and neither did I. I sucked it up like I had always been trained a man was suppossed to do. I walked up the stairs of that 3 story bldg. on crutches. Nobody asks a man why he's on crutches, although this place of work has a women's studies center that teaches the students about domestic violence. The stairs where tricky. They were steel and the edges lipped up big time, because they had some kind of epoxy or cement they hadn't poured in yet.

The 4th story was the roof and I made it, but it was a work out. I was in good shape then 5 years ago, not like now. I met with contractors on the roof and we talked about a chain hoist to help the maintenance guys get supplies to the roof. I lobbied hard for it, but we never got it. They later traded the money for something else in the educational program.

I walked back down the stairs as I had come up, picking my way over construction debris, and all kinds of unfinished pipes and conduits, scaffolding and planks. I think I caught a ride back to the office on one of those little carts, but I don't remember that. Suck it up, get tough or die, a man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do, I had learned all that stuff well from the time I was a little boy.

Weeks later, when the monster filed her false police report and showed them a yellowed bruise and swore she got it that evening we were arguing and she suddenly dialed 911, I was off to jail. I think she got that scam bruise she lied about moving a filing cabinet by herself a week before, but I will never know for sure. I pointed all that out to the domestic violence advocate, and she knew my "then wife" had lied. She knew she had an innocent man in jail, and even said, "Yea it is kind of yellow, but they still played their games with me, although I was never charged, and they gave me a slip that said they had really only detained me.

I believe in God and am happy I don't have to carry the burden of that cruelty around in my life without mercy and grace. I am comforted to know there is a just judge who will balance the scales for evil doers like those in the domestic violence industry. I am comforted to know there is a just God not like the feminist trained crooks who dress in black robes and pretend to be just.

There is a special place in hell at the lowest levels, where the devil will come and stare down at those extra evil people below. If God judges that those who work in the domestic violence industry should be there, I wonder if they will remember what they did to me when they climb down to their eternal reward.

R

Re:why is domestic violence singling out women (Score:1)
by Boy Genteel on 08:27 PM March 23rd, 2004 EST (#9)
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"I'm guilty of that.

5 years ago, my then wife threw a bookstand into my knee with all her force, the evening I ask her for a divorce to get away from her violence. I went down like a sack of potatoes, but "hey," I'm a big tough man, and a few days later I was at work (on crutches). Somebody has to pay the bills."

You have our support, and I do hope you can consider pressing charges against her someday.

bg
Re:why is domestic violence singling out women (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 11:25 PM March 23rd, 2004 EST (#10)
"I do hope you can consider pressing charges against her someday."

I tried to get her charged with filing a false police report, which their was ample evidence of, but not a chance. The feminist run domectic violence advocates, feminist trained police and judges wouldnn't allow it. She's out there, somewhere free and empowered to do what she does.

R


Re:why is domestic violence singling out women (Score:2)
by Luek on 11:51 PM March 23rd, 2004 EST (#11)
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I tried to get her charged with filing a false police report, which their was ample evidence of, but not a chance. The feminist run domectic violence advocates, feminist trained police and judges wouldnn't allow it.

Just why are we in Iraq and other countries supposedly protecting their civil rights when this shit is happening right here? This is stupid! Any candidate I vote for in the upcoming elections better have a real plan to combat domestic violence against men right here at home!

Re:why is domestic violence singling out women (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 04:20 AM March 24th, 2004 EST (#12)
I tried to get her charged with filing a false police report, which their was ample evidence of, but not a chance. The feminist run domectic violence advocates, feminist trained police and judges wouldnn't allow it.

Dr. Corry at DVMEN.org in Colorado just sent me the item below (in bold) in the context of an email he sent me.

On another not, when I serve on jury duty now, when I sworn in on the panel, I have to say I will serve on jury duty or they will fine me so after I say "YES," I say "under duress." When questioned I tell them I am not serving of my free will, and want no part of a corrupt system of law that is so misandrist against men that is has no intergrity.

The judge seems to be a little shook up by that, but who cares, I mean what I say with every ounce of my being. As far as I'm concerned if they want somebody to serve their corrupt legal system (not mine), they need to get a feminazi.

Ray

"The single biggest problem I see with today's courts is their tolerance for perjury and the subornation of perjury. Case after case comes to us where the other party, man or woman, lies to their heart's content, even in the face of documented evidence (that the court often won't even look at), and the best liar wins. In most of the cases we hear about, the perjury is committed by women who are often helped by victim's advocates, shelter workers, attorneys, and others."
Strange Coincidence (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 08:17 PM March 22nd, 2004 EST (#4)
Just this morning I was thinking about DAHM and wrote them a small check, much smaller than last time. I went to their web site and saw that thermometer stuck in the same place it was the last time I looked. I wanted them to know that people hadn't forgotten them, and cared. I didn't see a deadline on their fundraising so if I can keep my financial ship afloat a little longer, maybe I can send them some more later (another payday).

It's really rough out there in the "Get Tough or Die" battered men's shelter know as the world so it's encouraging to see this helpline existing anywhere.

Thanks Trudy and Jan for all you do. Some people talk about men and women having equal rights, others live it.

Blessings, Ray
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