Huffington Post: How About a Super Bowl Sunday Dedicated to Ending Violence?

Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2009-02-04 07:56

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), first authorized in 1994 and co-authored by Vice President Joe Biden, is currently offensively underfunded. The VAWA provides funds for investigating and prosecuting crimes of violence against women, improving safe houses and shelters as well as support for the national domestic violence hotline. Despite a Congressional plea for funding increases, President Bush recommended only a $421.6 million budget for VAWA in fiscal year 2008--the equivalent of a little over one hour of Super Bowl commercials. Without additional funds, shelters will close and desperately needed services will be cut.
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While we award trophies for high-stakes brutality, we must also recognize those who are working to reduce violence in our society and in our culture. We must pressure our political leaders and the Obama Administration to fully fund the Violence Against Women Act and ensure that respect for women's human rights are a pre-condition of international aid. We need to make sure that violence prevention efforts become as integral to our nation's schools as our football programs. Now that would be something worth cheering about.'

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The connection between super bowl and domestic violence has been completely disproven.
It was a fake and has been proven time and again.
I cannot bring myself to sign up for an account to correct the statements in the comments.

In the mean time, women continue to be the leaders of abuse and murder of children in US homes - however, this is not considered "domestic violence".

WHY!!!????

oregon dad

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Submitted by oregon dad on Thu, 2009-02-05 03:46

Roger -
The reason you didnt find a connection between the super bowl and domestic violence is because there isnt one. That myth was debunked long ago - another ficticious creation that was propogated endlessly even to this very day. But, no, it is not true.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/superbowl.asp

However, if the ladies are really interested in reducing violence. They should focus, not on the men, but on themselves. As women are the leading abusers and murderers of children in US homes as consistently documented by US Government studies.

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm06/figure4_2.htm

Yet we focus on the super bowl myth ....when children are being murdered.
Truely shameful.

oregon dad

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Submitted by oregon dad on Thu, 2009-02-05 05:20

A few additional points to make here. VAWA is totally sexist legislation. Just look at the title. If THAT isn't prejudicial and sexist, nothing is.

Academic studies have consistently shown that women are as culpable in domestic violence as men. One of the many problems associated with VAWA is that is trains judges, lawyers, police, and social workers an ideology rather than fact. Studies consistently show that women are just as violent, and in many cases MORE violent than men.
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
When Dr. Fiebert and other experts in domestic violence attempted to present data at congressional hearings, they were denied the opportunity to speak. Their research, in other words, was supressed.

More over, dating violence studies show that kids in high school and college are plagued by violence, and women are the main perpetrators here as well.

http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm?type=n

So lets DO contact our legislative officials and demand that:
a) the title of this sexist legislation is changed to the FAMILY VIOLENCE ACT
b) we make sure that ALL FUNDING for one gender is MATCHED IN FULL by funding for the other gender. Currently, you can rarely find men's shelters where equivalent services are provided to men as are provided to women.
c) we focus more effort on the VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN that so plagues our families. And here the main perpetrators are, once again, women.
d) we base future legislation on facts.

oregon dad

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Submitted by oregon dad on Thu, 2009-02-05 05:40