"Stand Up Guys" has only half the story

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2011-08-11 23:34

Organization site here. A great motive indeed but they have only half the story. They are putting on a golf tourney to help end violence against women and children. Nothing about men.

Presumably, this group doesn't have all the facts. So please inform them POLITELY of the research on DV that shows the extent to which females perpetrate it and how any fair and accurate undertaking to end DV must include efforts to end DV against men as well as women. Contact form is here. I ask that you refrain from making phone calls since that has in the past led to misunderstandings and exchanges that set the cause back -- no one intends for things to go that way but sometimes in the heat of verbal exchanges, they do.

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I simply copied the text from the post at http://news.mensactivism.org/node/17063 and followed with a request to add male DV victims to their group's goals for eradicating DV.

One can ignore cold hard facts but one can't argue with them. (They can choose to ignore them, but then that's on them.) In any case they will know that there are people "out there" with a more comprehensive truth who are taking notice and taking action around the whole matter of DV. If that helps to change just one person's mindset in SUG (or any other such organization), the effort put into sending an email is worth it.

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2011-08-12 02:41