DV Expert Interview Available On-line

Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2007-03-03 01:26

From Marc A.:

Springer Publications, a major publisher of public health materials, just posted an interview of the honest domestic violence expert John Hamel, author/editor of "Gender Inclusive Treatment of Intimate Partner Abuse," on gender-inclusive treatment and female violence. Excerpt:

-->Both of your books are based on the concept that men and women are equally capable of abuse against each other. This runs completely counter to conventional thinking, which insists that men are always aggressors and women are always victims. What first led you to this line of research, and what prompted you to begin writing about it?<--

In 1991, I took over a domestic violence caseload and was trained in a variation of the well-known “Duluth” model. In the Duluth theoretical framework, domestic violence is caused by a patriarchal society that sanctions violence by men against their female partners. Women are assumed to be either victims or, when they are found to aggress against their male partners, to be doing so in self-defense.

In group, many of the men I was working with claimed that their female partners were equally or more abusive than they were, and wondered why I wasn’t treating them as well. I had been trained to automatically disbelieve such claims as victim-blaming. However, while many of my clients did in fact seek to displace responsibility for their actions onto others, I found other claims to be quite credible, so I changed my assessment procedures and began to insist on interviewing victims separately. According to the victims themselves, the majority of these cases did indeed involve mutual abuse and, and some featured a dominant female perpetrator whose partner was arrested after fighting back. This clinical data contradicted much of what I had been taught, and led me to conduct an extensive review of the research literature. What I found more than corroborated my clinical findings.'

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As a result of these efforts, the majority of mainstream researchers are now acknowledging the gender-inclusive nature of intimate partner abuse. The next and more important step will be when advocates and policy makers begin to incorporate these findings into evidence-based legislation and programs.

(Their website at www.NFVLRC.org has some real potential).

Never have truer words been spoken.

The radical feminist ideology that drives public policy today (obviously) never has been and never will be "evidence based". Without the omnipresent patriarchal conspiracy to victimize women and demonize men, radical feminist dogma and its misandric world view both fall flat on their faces, as will politicians who continue to support such anachronisms when the message finally sinks in that:

a) women can be batterers too;

b) if women have the same rights as men, they should shoulder the same responsibilities, bringing an end to preferred treatment for women in drafts, health care, employment, education, family courts and criminal proceedings.

This will take quite a while - feminism has shown itself to be quite immune to facts and objective reality. Once the current generation of perpetually aggrieved, permanently angry, infinitely entitled middle-aged misandrists starts to die off, we can expect to see meaningful change. Many young men and women today are starting to see through the ideological smoke screen that their mothers created to suit themselves.

But even with the writing on the wall, these misandrists won't give up their gender privileges, pet politicians, corporate media, taxpayer-funded lobbying groups, dominance of academia, iron-fisted control of public policy discussions and exclusive access to the public trough without one hell of a fight.

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Submitted by RandomMan on Sat, 2007-03-03 10:57

This is an essential published interview read for anyone interested in the domestic violence field. It briefly and accurately describes the total disconnect between professional clinicians, researchers, and gender-neutral treatment proponents vs. the radical feminist Duluth Model ideologues who today dominate the system.

Because DV, Inc. is so profitable as a cash machine for police, lawyers, judges, women's shelters, victim advocates, and Duluth Model batterer's "treatment" programs ( a feminist DV counselor can make $100,000 a year and never even have to advertise) -- it will be an uphill battle for many years to come before you will see the current "man = perpetrator: woman = victim" paradigm changed.

It could happen, but then, it would require a revolution in how our culture thinks about power between the genders.

And, Kim Gandy @ NOW would be forced to get a real job. (Obviously that would be a form of emotional abuse... ;-)

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Submitted by Roy on Sat, 2007-03-03 15:31

It could happen, but then, it would require a revolution in how our culture thinks about power between the genders.

Let The Revolution Begin 1

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Submitted by MR on Sat, 2007-03-03 20:06

Yes, it's a start.

I'd like to see these signs attached to Hillary's presidential limo in 2009.

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Submitted by Roy on Sun, 2007-03-04 03:16