Feministing: 'Emotionally Abusive Women'

Submitted by anthony on Sun, 2009-08-02 17:46

Article here. Excerpt:

'My father is in an emotionally abusive relationship. I don’t know how this directly correlates with feminism, but I believe all victims of abuse, including men, should be addressed in the feminist dialogue. I am in need of some advice or feedback—my family and I are currently going through a very difficult situation and I have found Feministing discussions to be always helpful and engaging.
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Her out-of-control rages usually end up in her crying and seeking the comfort and sympathy of my father’s family. She would say things like, “How dare he treat someone as beautiful as me like that?” or “He doesn’t deserve me! I am a perfect person”. No matter how much we try to rationalize with her, she would place all the blame on my father and make herself out to be the victim. ...
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Being a feminist, I tend to think of “abuse” in terms of domestic and emotional violence perpetrated by men toward women. But recent events shaping in my family have enlightened me to the fact that spousal abuse by women is entirely possible. And that the situation is incredibly delicate, but I fear for my father’s health and his mental well-being. He wants to keep this all from me, but it is clear that I have witnessed it myself.'

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"Being a feminist, I tend to think of “abuse” in terms of domestic and emotional violence perpetrated by men toward women. But recent events shaping in my family have enlightened me to the fact that spousal abuse by women is entirely possible."

Thank you for showing how ignorant feminists are.

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Submitted by Broadsword on Sun, 2009-08-02 22:20

Notice how most of the posters deflected the real problem of lack of support for male abuse victims--a condition resulting from fem doctrine--to a pedantic discussion of mental illness? That wasn't something they wanted to discuss.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Mon, 2009-08-03 03:06

Many of the commenters are trying to diagnose the lady on-line, and attribute it to mental illness; some of them even sound like they have backgrounds as therapists, so are thus unethical.

I wonder if people on that board do this when the roles are reversed?

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Mon, 2009-08-03 05:18

manonthestreet

Women are intrinsically destructive and constitutionally self centred. The sooner men understand this and avoid them altogether the better for them.

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Submitted by trotter on Mon, 2009-08-03 10:08

manonthestreet

Just for the record I can tell you I also put the above comment on their website. I can report that it has been deleted. Not surprising but it just show both how intolerant they are and how insecure they are as well.

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Submitted by trotter on Tue, 2009-08-04 14:22