Edmonton Sun: Divorced from reality

Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2008-09-19 21:53

Article here. Excerpt:

'I inadvertently stoked the ever-simmering gender war last week when comments I reported from a domestic violence conference unleashed a fusillade of male outrage.
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Still, the men want their say so let's proceed. I received countless e-mails from wounded men (both physically and emotionally) who said they'd either been assaulted by unhinged wives or falsely accused of either harming their wives or molesting their kids.

"I'm a guppy in a sea of really big and angry fish," wrote one man who said he was falsely accused of sexually abusing his two-year-old daughter.

Men wrote about being assaulted by their wives - with no subsequent charges by the police. They complained about the nasty games women play to cut them out of their kids' lives.'

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"Here's the accurate info on whether more spouses that are murdered/commit murder are male or female, from Chapter 6 of Farrell's "Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say":

"no one knows for sure which sex kills the other more. In a second we'll see why it's likely that more wives kill husbands, but until the government is willing to collect data about the three female methods of killing, we can only do an educated guess. I'll explain...

"On the surface, the Bureau of Justice reports women are the perpetrators in 41% of spousal murders. However, the male method of killing is with a knife or gun, done by himself. The three female methods of killing are different. The third female method is poisoning, but I'll deal first with the first two methods, both of which are "multiple offender killings" — that is, a wife either hires a professional killer or persuades a boyfriend. We only know that in multiple offender killings there are four times as many husbands as victims than wives, according to the FBI. These multiple offender killings are meant, of course, to not be discovered, but even a multiple offender killing that is discovered is not recorded by the government as a wife killing a husband, it is listed separately by the FBI as a "multiple offender killing." That is, the 41% figure does not include either of the first two female methods of killing. .."

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Sat, 2008-09-20 04:51

Here's a direct link to the US DOJ summary for the report with the 41% number:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/spmurex.txt

I'd email her this too and point out that 60/40 is not "far more likely".

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Submitted by ItsDan on Sat, 2008-09-20 11:46

"I inadvertently stoked the ever-simmering gender war".

Ya right. Jacobs is a known misandrist working for a newspaper that prides itself in courting controversy in order to sell newspapers. Make no mistake this was calculated and had the editors rubbing their hands with glee.

Badger

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Submitted by badgerb on Sat, 2008-09-20 14:31