RADAR ALERT: Everett Herald Turns Valentine’s into a Day of Violence and Fear

	posted by Matt on 11:30 AM February 7th, 2005
	In recent years domestic violence advocates have attempted to hijack Valentine’s Day, and turn a day devoted to love into a day consumed by fear. Julie Muhlstein's January 23 article in the Everett (Washington) Herald is a perfect example. Her article, "The Dark Side of Love" is filled with distortions and sensationalistic journalism. The article implies that Valentine's Day is a particularly dangerous time for women. That's false! An Indiana University study recently found that Valentine's Day is the one holiday when violence decreases. Click "Read more..." for more information and what to do.

	Everett Herald Turns Valentine’s into a Day of Violence and Fear Contact the Everett (WA) Herald and tell them: Julie Muhlstein’s "Dark Side of Love" represents a highly biased and sensationalized portrayal of domestic violence which ignores the 510 men who are killed by their girlfriends and wives every year, as cited at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ipv.pdf. The article makes repeated statements that are demonstrably false, e.g., “Pregnancy is the second most likely time violent crime will happen.” In fact, many experts believe pregnant women are less likely to suffer from violence, as discussed here: http://slate.msn.com/id/2111390. The article is an obvious effort to malign men and to frighten women. The editors at the Everett Herald need to start doing some fact-checking, and stop accepting the claims of domestic violence advocates at face value. Here's the contact information: 1. Executive Editor: Stan Strick Email: strick-at-heraldnet.com Telephone: 425-339-3000 2. Reporter: Julie Muhlstein Email: muhlsteinjulie-at-heraldnet.com Phone: 425-339-3460 3. Letters to the Editor: Email: letters-at-heraldnet.com Snail mail: Letters to the Editor The Daily Herald Company PO Box 960 Everett, WA 98206 (Include your name, address, and daytime telephone number) Please mention you are contacting the Herald in response to a RADAR Alert. Fifteen years of this sort of distorted reporting has produced the unfair DV policies we have in place today. It's time we demand that reporters and editors live up to their high-minded statements of ethical principles.

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Expect More (Score:1) by Hunchback on 02:49 PM February 7th, 2005 EST (#1) Expect a slew of similarly themed articles in the near future. The VAWA is due for recertification this year, and feminists will do or say anything to protect their multi-BILLION dollar boondoggle. Don't expect any mass marches. Last year's march in April was an attempt to flex their muscles and demonstrate how politically strong they still are. The real fight for the recert of the VAWA will take place under the radar in backrooms while the public will be fed a constant diet of this journalistic slop. But they will do nothing that so focuses inquiring eyes on their work that it will provoke exposés. What we'll see is a spate anecdotal articles with few challengable statistics.

Sent an email (Score:1) by khankrumthebulgar on 05:42 PM February 7th, 2005 EST (#2) Gents, Yet again the Femhags and FemNags are waging war with us again. No accusation is too vile against Men for them to make. Women have a free reign to muder children, torture and murder men and it is considered humorous. The most popular TV sitcom right now is "Desperate Housewives". Women who are whining about their poor life choices and how Men are the cause of it all. Sick of this crap. Sick of Women and their misandry. Ungrateful Beotches want us to protect them from Islamic Fundamentalists and Sharia. Yet they continue to treat us as the new slaves. Time to find a Spartacus and to revolt. Tired of the Bovine Excrement from the media being waged against decent Men. Angry and fed up with it. Sick of a media culture that disparages all Male Virtues, Honor, Courage, Integrity,Loyalty. Funny how the Girly Men and the FemNags are attack a Marine General who made a comment that he loved shooting Afghans who beat up Women. Makes me ill Women today and their support of this crap. KhanKrumthebulgar Semper Fi

Rocky Mtn News series on DV (Score:2) by mens_issues on 08:14 PM February 7th, 2005 EST (#3) The Rocky Mountain News has started a four part series on Domestic Violence called "Battered Justice" that questions the effectiveness of the current system. Unfortunately, it takes on the usual women as victims/men as abusers stance that we've seen in the past. It also wonders why more women are being arrested for DV. A link to today's article can be found (a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news/a rticle/0,1299,DRMN_3_3528249,00.html")here(/a) This notice has also been sent to RADAR. Steve

Re:Rocky Mtn News series on DV (Score:2) by mens_issues on 08:17 PM February 7th, 2005 EST (#4) Oops, I'm not much for HTML tags. I'll try this again: A link to today's article can be found here

My letter to the Rocky Mountain News (Score:2) by mens_issues on 08:27 PM February 7th, 2005 EST (#5) I sent this to letters@rockymountainnews.com To the Rocky Mountain News, I must take issue with your series on Domestic Violence titled “Battered Justice.” Perhaps the major reason for the increasing number of arrests of women in domestic violence cases is that men are becoming less reluctant to report domestic violence against them. I agree that domestic violence is a serious issue that affects both men and women. However — for reasons of funding — public policy has traditionally concentrated on those cases where women are victims and men are abusers. Many men’s advocates are concerned about the lack of attention given to male victims. Here are some facts to consider: • According to a recent CDC survey, 1.5 million American women are severely assaulted by their "intimate partners" each year. It is less known that 835,000 men are also assaulted annually by intimate partners, representing some 36% of the total. (Note: the methodology of this survey has been criticized by men’s advocates as flawed, however this is still a significant finding). • Women and men assault each other with roughly equal frequency. This would make the difference in the above figures even closer to parity. However, women are much more likely to report domestic violence to police. • Women often compensate for their smaller size by using weapons such as knives, guns, baseball bats, and fireplace pokers. One study found that 86% of female-on-male violence involved weapons, contrasted with 25% in cases of male-on-female violence. • Men are usually reluctant to call the police in a domestic dispute for fear of ridicule. Also, police will often arrest the man even when it is the woman who committed the assault. • Many women's shelters exist in the United States and other Western nations, but there are very few shelters for men. • Child abuse, a related issue, is committed by women more often than men (and even less often by a biological father). Also consider that false allegations of domestic violence have been used against men for years. I have seen little if any coverage of this area in the Rocky Mountain News. You may be interested in the Fiebert bibliography, which “demonstrates that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners.” http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm Until domestic violence is treated as a human problem (rather than from the gender feminist “male batterer/female victim” perspective) real progress in this area will be limited. Ironically, the proliferation of women’s shelters and the corresponding lack of men’s shelters over the last two decades has saved more men than women from intimate partner homicide. This may be because women in abusive situations have an alternative to murdering their male partners in desperation, while men in abusive situations have nowhere to go. I trust that this series on domestic violence will be balanced in the future by a similar one regarding male victims. Steven G. Van Valkenburg [address] [phone number] [email address]

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