Why are feminist so quick to marginalize abuse against men – but not women?
February 282010
When members here have mentioned the possibility of Tiger Woods being abused by his lovely wife with a golf club, the general reply from feminists has been to the effect of:
"lets wait and see what the outcome is – I don’t really believe this…"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1239225/Tiger-Woodss-wife-Elin-battered-iron-caught-texting-mistress.html
But, how many times have those same feminists claimed that women don’t report men who abuse them and so it must be so much more than the stats reveal.
It seems to me, feminists hold a double standard (yes, yet another).
Summer – feminists insist they do not hate men (while their actions suggest otherwise).. Nazi’s were honest about their hatred.
I’ll go you one better:
If the circumstances were identical save for the sexes of the parties involved, feminists would have insisted that abuse had taken place and that this showed how victims of abuse were intimidated not to press charges. The "wait and see" attitude would have been labeled "enabling" if not outright condoning abuse.
And another thing: if it were revealed that Rhianna or some other female victim of domestic violence had been unfaithful and that this had somehow motivated the attack, feminists would have screamed from the rooftops about "blaming the victim" whenever the media covered the cheating.
The double standards keep adding up.
It is certainly true that domestic violence against women does put more people into the ER or the morgue than domestic violence against men. But that in no way justifies the complete double standard in the way the cases are treated.
One reason I don’t call myself "feminist". That means I don’t consider women human or I don’t think I should be able to vote? PUH-LEEZE!
February 28th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
because if they cared about men, they wouldn’t be feminists…
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February 28th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
I haven’t been around on these boards for the Tiger Woods fiasco but in my real life I haven’t heard a single person male or female say that Tiger wasn’t being chased with a golf club with her intending to brain him if she could.
That being said, its not uncommon for the abused spouse (male or female) to deny pressing charges. Its one of the biggest problems facing those who try to stamp out domestic abuse.
Maybe the people on here aren’t like the people I know (shocking, right?). I don’t know anyone who believes the whole "I was trying to get him out of the car" story. But we also don’t know that there is a pattern of this behavior. I think that many people, when confronted by the fact that their spouse has cheated, would become irritated and possibly lash out against that person who broke their trust.
It wouldn’t justify her trying to wail on him with a golf club but you certainly would see where that emotion would come from.
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February 28th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
I’ll go you one better:
If the circumstances were identical save for the sexes of the parties involved, feminists would have insisted that abuse had taken place and that this showed how victims of abuse were intimidated not to press charges. The "wait and see" attitude would have been labeled "enabling" if not outright condoning abuse.
And another thing: if it were revealed that Rhianna or some other female victim of domestic violence had been unfaithful and that this had somehow motivated the attack, feminists would have screamed from the rooftops about "blaming the victim" whenever the media covered the cheating.
The double standards keep adding up.
It is certainly true that domestic violence against women does put more people into the ER or the morgue than domestic violence against men. But that in no way justifies the complete double standard in the way the cases are treated.
One reason I don’t call myself "feminist". That means I don’t consider women human or I don’t think I should be able to vote? PUH-LEEZE!
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February 28th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
By their very definition they are going to be concerned about violence or abuse etc against women and not men.
Its like saying ‘why were the nazis not concerned about violence against jews’
If a group of staunchly opposed to a set of people they wont care what happens to them basically.
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February 28th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Wasn’t one of Tiger’s car windows smashed? That set off an alarm for me that his wife probably hit him. It’s true that a lot of women don’t report abuse,but there are a lot of men who don’t report abuse either. You’d be surprised how much crime goes unreported in general.
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February 28th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
I agree on these boards alone no feminists seemed to care, and denied it being DV. But when the Chris Brown Rhianna fiasco happened all the feminists jumped on his back without much evidence.
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