Tell Us Your Story!

	posted by Matt on 05:04 PM March 16th, 2005
	Trudy W Schuett writes "The DesertLight Journal is gathering material for a book to be published later this year on domestic violence. This book will focus on the currently underserved people affected – the male victims, female abusers, serial victims, and those addicted to violence. We’d like to hear your story, and also to hear how you went about seeking help; if you did seek help, what happened if you did, and if you were able to find what you needed. Click "Read more..." for more.

	Submissions need not be of professional quality. We know not everybody is a writer, but that shouldn’t stop you from telling us what happened to you. Just do the best you can. We’re more interested in truth than a polished presentation. Submissions chosen for the final publication will be edited for quality. Length is not a major concern, but we’d ask that you keep your story under 10,000 words. If your submission has been previously published, please make sure you still have the rights to the work. Submissions should be sent in the body of an e-mail, and include your name, mailing address, and phone number. This information is for verification and clarification purposes only, and will never be used for anything else. You identity will be kept entirely confidential should you prefer we do that. If you have a website or blog related to this issue, and would like to have this information included, we can do that as well. Let us know your preference in your submission. Deadline for submissions is May 30, 2005. Send to: dva2004-at-desertlightjournal.com. This is an activist/fundraising project. Look for further details to be announced at the DesertLight Journal. All participants do so as volunteers. Any proceeds from the book will be donated to the Domestic Abuse Men’s Helpline."

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male victims need be invisible to survive at all (Score:0) by Anonymous User on 12:01 PM March 17th, 2005 EST (#1) I know Trudy is legit so these comments are not directed at her. She is trying to help and is helping. Male victims need to be invisible to survive. It's a tactic they use trying to minimize the pain from all the abuse they have received, and all the ongoing pain associated with it, but the tactic is only partially successful. If you deny it happened it doesn't exist (some of the time). Males are conditioned to bear their burdens, suffer in silence, take it like a man. It's the code of honor initiation, admitting male boys into the male world. Talking about what happened to you as a male victim of domestic violence, is not accepted by most people (men or women) so most male victims have learned to keep their mouths shut after trying to speak up. Even when the media says they're interested, they're not. Many male victims have been deemed "primary aggressor" by police and now no one believes them so they have been battered through out a violent relationship, then battered again by police, then battered again by anyone that hears their story. If a woman can conjure up any kind of a self inflicted bruise, then any lie will do to get a man arrested. It happens all the time, and really helps get those vital statistics to keep VAWA in business. It's all an insidious game of power and control to the feminists, using the very evil (power and control) they try to transfer onto men, but they are the masters of it, and their kind have always been. It's draining, exhausting, and depressing to relive again and again the cruelty of what happened to you as a male victim of d.v., and the main things you see happen when you speak up is more abuse directed at you. I'm surprised any men say anything about they're domestic violence victimizations. As a male talking about female battering of men, "Even when you're right, you're wrong." It's just the way society chooses to look at it. Even though I'm a male victim of d.v., if a woman pounded my face bloody with her fists I have doubts that I would report it to police. They'd see the blood on the male face, the blood on the female fists and just determine the male has more potential to do harm so he's primary aggressor and the one who's arrested. Perhaps males should all start wearing the symbol for male emblazoned in yellow on their clothes to make males more easily recognizable for police (brown shirts) persecuting them. The truth is feminist trained police are just the willing instruments of the radical feminist hate state like prosecutors and judges and politicians and media and schools. As a male I considering dying young the ultimate male privilege. I've more than earned it with the cruel brutality I've been on the receiving end of just for being male, and I’m thereby fully entitled too it. It certainly helps social security to pay all those poor women who live longer so they can spend more time abusing men. Dying young in a society that doesn't give a damn about its male victims of domestic violence is the male's ultimate privilege, and it says, "Males are disposable and nobody cares, but at least the abuse is mercifully stopping for this lifetime." I’m sure there are a lot of male d.v. victims who have already gone this route, and those dead men will tell no tales for evil, radical feminist America to scoff at.

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