NYTimes: Opinion column ignores DV facts

Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2009-03-07 22:11

Via Marc A. Article here. Excerpt:

'Conversation should start young because abusive relationships can, she warns. Dating violence is shockingly common among teenagers. According to the Family Violence and Prevention Fund: One in five female high school students reports being physically and or sexually abused by a date...'

Among other things she cites one-sided stats on dating violence.

You can post a reply and can send a letter to letters-at-nytimes.com

Some stats on dating violence and DV:

A recent 32-nation study on dating violence by the University of New Hampshire found women are as violent and controlling as men in relationships worldwide.

In 2006, the University of Florida recently reported that women are more likely than men to “stalk, attack and abuse” their partners.

In 2007, the University of Washington found that “nearly twice as many women as men said they perpetrated domestic violence in the past year including kicking, biting or punching their partner, threatening to hit or throw something at their partner, and pushing, grabbing or shoving their partner.”

The American Psychiatric Association and Harvard Medical School announced a major national study of young adult heterosexuals and found half of the domestic violence was reciprocal and women initiated most of both the reciprocal and non-reciprocal violence. (Refs here and
here)

Men report it less than women, which makes crime data Lisa unreliable. But empircal research consistently shows women are at least as violent as men in heterosexual relationships. California State University Professor Martin Fiebert summarizes over 200 of these studies online.

This Canadian government report (.pdf file) on abused men recognizes the same data.

Also see: Dutton, D., & Corvo, K., Transforming a flawed policy: A call to revive psychology and science in domestic violence research and practice (.pdf file) (11) 2006, 457-483.

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Isn't this the Belkin lady? I don't know that comments will do that much good for her regular readers, since they're all feminists or honorary women, aren't they?
-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Sun, 2009-03-08 07:55

But mine has the long part about bomb threats, death threats, etc. quoted in the comment. No way Belkin will post my comment.

[edit:] I just emailed the comment to them too. Here it is:

“The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence: Male Victims”
Originally published in The Women’s Quarterly, 1999.
Richard J. Gelles, Ph.D.,
Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence
School of Social Work University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104

“….The most controversial finding, as it would turn out, was that the rate of adult female-to-adult male intimate violence was the same as the rate of male-to-female violence. Not only that, but the rate of abusive female-to-male violence was the same as the rate of abusive male-to-female violence. When my colleague Murray Straus presented these findings in 1977 at a conference on the subject of battered women, he was nearly hooted and booed from the stage. When my colleague Suzanne Steinmetz published a scholarly article, ”The battered husband syndrome,” in 1978, the editor of the professional journal published, in the same issue, a critique of Suzanne’s article.

“The response to our finding that the rate of female-to-male family violence was equal to the rate of male-to-female violence not only produced heated scholarly criticism, but intense and long-lasting personal attacks. All three of us received death threats. Bomb threats were phoned in to conference centers and buildings where we were scheduled to present. Suzanne received the brunt of the attacks—individuals wrote and called her university urging that she be denied tenure; calls were made and letters were written to government agencies urging that her grant finding be rescinded. All three of us became ”non persons” among advocates. Invitations to conferences dwindled and dried up. Advocacy literature and feminist writing would cite our research, but not attribute it to use. Librarians publicly stated they would not order or shelve our books.”

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Sun, 2009-03-08 08:41

I am surprised that they have now actually shown all three of my comments. It must not be Belkin herself who is doing the moderating.. I guess even the NYT is fair sometimes.

Come on guys, I don't like being the only one is this thread. Let's get some activism going. Actions speak louder than words!
-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Sun, 2009-03-08 23:01

but my post was rejected by the moderator.

Update:

Mirabile Dictu !!!

MY POST WAS ACCEPTED!!!!!

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Submitted by Luek on Mon, 2009-03-09 01:37

Bravo for jumping onto this.

I am convinced that one of our more useful tools against feminist lies are comments sections in news stories like this. It is sometimes (not always) a good forum for a debate that ideological feminists would prefer not to have with us.

And yes, I've thrown in a few comments myself.

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Submitted by Belgorod on Mon, 2009-03-09 17:18