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McElroy Advocates More Scrutiny of Violence Data
Submitted by Roy on Fri, 2006-09-08 23:53
Wendy (iFeminist) McElroy published an excellent piece at FoxNews that argues for closer attention to new violence statistics, defends Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and condemns (non-I?) feminists for dismissing the data. McElroy writes -
"In a recent radio broadcast and newspaper column, Dr. Laura Schlessinger addressed the 'Take Back the Night' movement that protests violence against women. She accused it of deliberately ignoring data that suggests men may be more vulnerable to violence than women. ... That PC ideology rests on the concept of women as victims and men as aggressors.
The backlash against Schlessinger was dramatic and instructive to others who consider questioning the dominant paradigm of victimhood."
The piece also includes a look at the recent Australian "Personal Safety Study," which found that "although men are three times more likely than women to be the perpetrators of violence, they are twice as likely to become victims of physical violence or threats."
I appreciate that in her writings Ms. McElroy is becoming more of an MRA advocate for objectivity, and less of a strident instructress.
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Philosopy 201
"All truth goes through 3 stages:
First it is ridiculed; then it
is violently opposed; then it
accepted as self-evident"
-Schopenhauer
I would say we're in stage approx 1.8 right now.
--Axolotl
Dr. Schlessinger ?
I am surprised that Laura Schlessinger is cognizant of and opposed (in theory anyway) to the misandry that is so rampant in the domestic violence state industry. I have always had a good feeling about the motivations of Wendy McElroy.
BTY: MRA hunger striker John Murtari will be on a call-in talk show this Sunday. You can hear it on the internet and call in using a toll-free number. Please help spread the word. A great opportunity!
See for more details:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/09/08/family-rights-activist-murtari-live-on-the-laurie-reilly-show-this-sunday/
Physiologically Immature
It’s apparent that feminists (and their allies) vehemently oppose any reasonable dialog that could possibly weaken their stuck-on-stupid positions. They have adopted an unwavering “us-and-them” stance. I have every reason to believe that they will continue to ignore or minimize (unbiased) studies that suggest their “facts” may be off-base while at the same time seek-out sources (credible or not) that support their ideology. It’s disturbing to me that “adults” conduct themselves in such childish ways! Perhaps they are just adolescents trapped in adult bodies?
Stuck-on-Stupid = U.S. Congress-on-VAWA
Unfortunately, being "stuck-on-stupid" is the safe position if you are an elected feminist lackey.
Can you imagine more than two male Reps or Senators actually taking a public stance for men's rights?
(Recently 100% voted for the reauthorization of VAWA and another FIVE YEARS of feminist legal tyranny.)
This is why, for all practical purposes, there is no men's movement beyond the margins of the Internet.
There is currently no risk that any MRA site's server will crash due to traffic overload.
And absolutely no cause for any incumbent pol to worry about "the MRA vote."
Just keepin' it real....
A Schopenhauer Quote Banquet!
I was trying to find just the right Schopenhauer quote to extend axolotl's excellent use of the one above to support his elegant logic.
My concern is that Schopenhauer lived in a time when it was difficult to totally stamp out "truth." (Literacy was the main highway for ideas... you had to be able to read and comprehend. Not so today in our post-print "new media" environment.)
Today, due to mass media of mind-numbing conformity and the general wage-slavery of the populace, it is quite easy to achieve the eradication of truth.
Just look at Paris Hilton!
(I was prepeared to write a long thesis, but the image of Paris pretty much makes the same point.)
Semiotics.
That's truthful.
Oh, here's the Schopenhauer fest - forgive the scrolling necessary ...
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
Arthur Schopenhauer
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
Arthur Schopenhauer
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/arthur_schopenhauer.html
Schopenhauer Background
Though Schopenhauer never married he did have a legal confrontation with a female that plagued him for years. He was accused of assaulting a female who sued him for physical injury and he lost. He had to pay her a stipend for years. Equavalent to being married; Right?
Also, his mother was what one could call a strong willed pushy feminist of her day. These factors may explain his rather cynical view of women in his writings.
Arthur Loved But Never Married Only Young Wenches
It's puzzling that the obviously brilliant and eccentric philosopher was mostly smitten by 17 - 19 year old "women."
I suppose he was not seeking an engaging conversation with an intellectual equal.
His mother's ridicule of her son's intellectual aspirations may have played just a small part in his own gravitation towards less dismissive females.
Good ol' Arthur might justifiably be called "The Father of the Modern Marriage Strike..."
To quote --
"Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties", (or even more drastic)-
"Marrying means, to grasp blindfold into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes."
Too bad Schopenhauer won't be available to testify at Joe Biden's 2010 VAWA reauthorization hearings!
McElroy is a feminist
McElroy is a feminist,
Always has been a feminist apologist and always will be.
Anyone that has some emotive feeling towards the feminist mcElroy should have a good look at her site and find out why she pays homage to the most hated feminazy on the planet.
See my post about Harvard Research
This is because the numbers are constantly being cooked by feminist sympathizers so everyone thinks women are always the victims.
A study currently being done at Harvard is a collaboration between a women's rights lobbying group and a harvard researcher in the school of public health.
I'l bet she talked to lots of women and not a single father's rights group about this research.
I found out that the researcher is Radha Iyengar. She was involved in the VAWA reauthorization and only works with women's groups. She is not unbiased and creates feminist propaganda. This is what feminists call research?