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RADAR ALERT: Why Is It So Hard For The Rocky Mountain News To Talk About Male Victims?
posted by Matt on 10:02 PM February 20th, 2005
RADAR Project The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado just ran a column by Dora-Lee Larson titled, “Why is it so Hard to Call it Like it Is? Domestic Violence is a Crime.” Larson is the executive director of the Denver Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. Larson’s column was printed in response to a series of articles on "Battered Justice" that ran in the Rocky Mountain News February 5-9.

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Three times in her article, Ms. Larson uses the phrase, “battered women.” But she finds it very hard to talk about “battered men.” She repeatedly equates men as abusers and women with victims. Only once does she give the slightest hint that women also may be batterers: “How many women and children’s lives have been spared if half of the (mostly) men who receive treatment stop battering?”

There is an entire web site devoted to documenting men in Colorado who were abused or killed by their girlfriends and wives -- apparently Ms. Larson finds it hard to talk about that.
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Contact the Rocky Mountain News and tell them the following:

  1. Dora-Lee Larson’s article glosses over the well-documented finding that women are just as likely as men to commit domestic violence.
  2. Readers of the Rocky Mountain News should be asking Ms. Larson, “Why does she find it so hard to talk about male victims?,” especially when their plight has been repeatedly documented.
  3. The Rocky Mountain News series on Battered Justice did mention male victims, but the overall series left the misleading impression that female batterers are infrequent and even treated unfairly by the criminal law system.

Here’s the contact information for Letters to the Editor:

E-mail: letters-at-RockyMountainNews.com
Snail mail: 100 Gene Amole Way, Denver, CO 80204

Here’s the contact information for Sarah Huntley, the reporter who wrote most of the articles for the "Battered Justice" series:

E-mail: huntleys-at-RockyMountainNews.com
Phone: 303-892-5212

Please cc your e-mail to info-at-mediaradar.org, so RADAR can keep track of the level of response.

For this week’s Alert, we are looking for objective, thoughtful, persuasive letters to the editor to be sent.

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Date of Release: February 20, 2005

Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting (RADAR) is a coalition of men and women working to assure media balance and accuracy in coverage of the domestic violence issue. More information can be found at: http://www.mediaradar.org/

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The Answer Is Simple (Score:2)
by Luek on 06:11 PM February 21st, 2005 EST (#1)
Why Is It So Hard For The Rocky Mountain News To Talk About Male Victims?

It is because The Rocky Mountain News like most everyone else in the media is in denial about the true facts on domestic violence. They are obviously oblivious to the long established findings that women are just as likely as men to instigate domestic violence and that women are the prime child abuse perpetrators.


Re:The Answer Is Simple (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 06:51 PM February 21st, 2005 EST (#2)
So true. Tradional media is filled with the complaints of lazy, self-absorped women who sneer and belittle the real problems that men face.
Re:The Answer Is Simple (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 10:08 PM February 21st, 2005 EST (#3)
Also, for 4 decades the press has ceded all gender issues to feminists. Either feminist reporters write the columns or journalists go to them for the "facts."
Re:The "Author" Is Simple (Score:2)
by Roy on 10:20 PM February 22nd, 2005 EST (#4)
Dora-Lee Larson writes –

  "Colorado's 'Standards for Treatment With Court Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders' are the result of many years of grass-roots advocates (including formerly battered women), treatment providers and others working together to produce a mode of treatment for abusers that's as effective as possible. As these standards were being developed, most licensed professionals didn't want much to do with the process."

The reason most licensed professionals (psychologists, therapists, mental health counselors) did not want anything to do with the process was a direct result of the "process" being dominated by radical feminist women’s advocates with few credentials other than their self-proclaimed expertise as professional victims.

The Duluth Model DV "treatment" practiced in Colorado and most other states has been widely discredited as ineffective and ideologically driven. It disallows any consideration of the complex factors influencing family & intimate partner conflict, forbids any acknowledgement of female violence, and insists that the single cause of DV is patriarchy expressed as "male power and control."

For credible counseling professionals, DV "treatment" is the Third Rail that they refuse to touch. Hence, the field is dominated by feminist sociopaths, profit-minded racketeers, and wounded healers who project their own unresolved issues onto their captive male "clients."

"Applying restorative justice with its premise of reunifying or bringing together the victim and perpetrator in domestic violence is a slippery slope." (D-LL)

Translation – the only acceptable DV treatment mandates divorce, family destruction, and ensuring that women and children become wards of the Victim Industry.

"Most batterers do not take responsibility for their behavior and have perfected effective and insidious ways of intimidation, power and control - often only recognized by the victim."
(D-LL)

This is an apt description of feminism, which has employed the State and Law to "batter" men while masquerading as a lofty campaign for equality.

With VAWA coming up for reauthorization and another proposed $3.7 billion, five-year scam to be paid by our tax dollars, it’s a good time to ponder the meaning of "insidious."


"It's a terrible thing ... living in fear." - Roy: hunted replicant, Blade Runner
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