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Christina Hoff Sommers book Who Stole Feminism was the first place I saw the Super Bowl myth debunked. She did an excellent job describing the whole thing - she quoted the reporter who tracked down the source of this myth. (Do I recall correctly that the reporter was a Ken Ringell(?) at the Washington Post??)
For those who haven't read much about the way that DV is manipulated to destroy innocent men see www.batteredmen.com. The reference list is phenomenal. Martin Fiebert's annotated bibliography is excellent. Also read the various pieces by Murray Straus. Note a nice Cathy Young article there as well. As I recall, she got the story entirely right.
Though it should not need saying, I think actual domestic violence is a terrible crime regardless of the sex of the perpetrator and victim. Too bad feminists only care when the victim is a woman. By actual domestic violence I mean physically assaulting or clearly threatening to physically assault a domestic partner. Disagreeing, arguing, yelling, cursing, striking the table, stomping your feet, failing to provide emotional support, etc are NOT domestic violence, though many feminists claim them to be when they identify the man as the perp and the woman as the victim. Of course, if the woman does these things it is NOT domestic violence according to feminists. Now I suppose rational people could argue a bit about this definition, and I suppose there might be room for interpretation as to what some specific action might mean.
The main problem once we get into interpretation is that feminists treat women as helpless children in the argument. They claim that women are so weak and so incompetant, so irrationally fearful, that anything, even a harsh word can terrorize them. So just about anything a man does can be classified as DV, based on how an individual woman feels at any moment. Again, I am not minimizing real domestic violence.
This is very much like the way feminists define rape - i.e. as anything any woman at any time decides she doesn't quite like. And of course, with both of these, the woman is allowed to change her mind whenever and as often as she wishes. Though it should not require my saying so, I am totally opposed to forcing anyone to have sex.
Of course, in both cases, feminists claim that women NEVER lie. Apparently feminists do not consider women to be human, as we all know that lying is a rather common human behavior. I find this remarkable - I have always considered women to be human beings (and completely equal at that), but, of course, feminists and I do not tend to agree about many things, so perhaps it is not too surprising that they do not.
Will
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I bet if anything that its men who are seriously harmed from their spouse on this day.
The wives are pissed off because the men are going somewhere to watch the game instead of paying attention to them. Spend money on food and drink and away from the family.
I bet women slap , tease and taunt men in large amounts. Geeez.
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And they'll probably do it in the commercials and the sitcoms surrounding this date, therefore documenting it, but no one will notice but us.
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Which is exactly why we should be making a noise about it, Frank.
Let alone men speaking out about violence committed against them.
It's my opinion that this sort of false premise taints juries against men on a general level. Not sure how we can deal with this as men remarkably in high numbers just do not call to complain to police.
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