By thecollegefix.com 07/27/2015
“… You’d be forgiven for thinking that Democrats still controlled the U.S. Senate, because a Wednesday hearing on campus sexual assault does not feature a single person who challenges the widespread but thinly sourced view that college campuses are hotbeds of “rape culture.” …”
Read the entire article:http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/23529/
By reason.com 07/28/2015
“…David Lisak’s serial predator theory of campus rape has made him a celebrity. Once a virtually unknown associate professor at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, his work is now cited by White House officials and reporters for major newspapers. …”
Read the entire article:https://reason.com/archives/2015/07/28/campus-rape-statistics-lisak-problem
By Vox.com 06/03/2015
“… I’m a professor at a midsize state school. I have been teaching college classes for nine years now. I have won (minor) teaching awards, studied pedagogy extensively, and almost always score highly on my student evaluations. …”
Read the entire article:http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid
By abovethelaw.com 11/03/2015
“…Shannon Smith has served almost 6 years of her 10 year sentence for the death of Robert Takach. Smith’s hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. …”
By WashingtonTimes.com 11/05/2015
“…He is an award-winning combat photographer who stands accused of trying to pick up women in the public affairs office at MinotAir Force Base in North Dakota, and for that prosecutors wanted to put him in prison for 130 years. …”
Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/5/aaron-allmon-case-makes-minot-air-force-base-groun/
By psmag.com 11/06/2015
“…A new report on sexual abuse within the American military sheds light on male rape and assault—and how little is actually known about the issue. Rates of military sexual trauma among men may be as much as 15 times higher than previously thought, according to the American Psychological Association, which published this new research in its journal Psychological Services. …”
By WashingtonExaminer.com 11/15/2015
“…Chicago Blackhawks ice hockey star Patrick Kane will not face criminal charges over a rape accusation made against him earlier this year. …”
Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/another-high-profile-rape-accusation-falls-apart/article/2575738
The CDC, on its National Center for Injury Prevention and Control website sectionhttp://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/ipvfacts.htm , has a new [not sure just how new] Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) fact sheet posted. This CDC fact sheet provides a welcome change from past presentations that minimized and trivialized male victimization.
Anyone who thinks there is something positive to be accomplished in arguing about the percentage differences between male and female victimization can continue to argue until the cows come home. It is clearly an exercise in futility as domestic violence, because of both personal and professional experiences, is viewed differently, defined differently and different methodologies are used in study after study.
The front page of the CDC posting notes that there is going to be an interactive national seminar concerning “A Call to Men: Ending Domestic Violence, Becoming Part of the Solution” on October 19th.
There is no better or quicker way to engage men in ending domestic violence than to end minimizing, marginalizing or ignoring male victimization. In the past the ideological feminist solution has been to ask men to stop abusing women. In all societies men are acculturated to be more aggressive than women. However, it can not be empirically demonstrated that women are exclusively or primarily passive victims of intimate partner violence.
If anyone doubts that the majority of domestic violence organization websites do not minimize, marginalize or ignore male victimization I suggest that they visit almost any domestic violence website to discover that the position of that organization is that women are the victims of domestic violence 85% to 95% of the time.
The following appeared on page B1 of the October 28, 2002, Boston Globe and is representative of the beliefs held by the majority of domestic violence organizations.
Yet, male victims pose a delicate problem for battered women’s groups who say they are too rare a phenomenon [emphasis added] to warrant drastic change in the core beliefs of the movement against domestic abuse .
“Men are sometimes victims of domestic violence,” said Nancy Scannell, legislative director of Jane Doe Inc., a Massachusetts-based domestic violence coalition. “But the attempt to be inclusive [of male victims] should never be interpreted to mean that the issue is gender-neutral. It does not change our mind about why [domestic violence] happens. It happens because of sexism and power and control of men over women in our society [emphasis added].”
Another example of excluding male victimization is the fact that almost all of those domestic violence sites document that 1 in 10 [the numbers vary] of high school girls suffer from IPV while they ignore that the same studies document that 1 in 20 [the numbers vary] boys are the victims of IPV.
There has been a patented and purposeful exclusion of male victimization by the federal government. Not a single president of the U.S. has ever mentioned male victimization during their October address concerning domestic violence awareness month.
In the hearings before the Senate for the 2005 re-authorization for the Violence Against Women Act the vast majority of those testifying ignored any mention of male victimization. In fact the very title of the act documents its exclusionary nature.
Most professional sites, similar to MedicineNet.com document female victimization while ignoring maleshttp://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=41728 . This site notes 5.3 million women are victims and ignores the 3.2 million male victims.
This recent CDC fact sheet still has an ideological feminist edge. It notes the IPV can cause suicide attempts for women while ignoring the fact that in 1 of 4 IPV homicides the male perpetrator will actually commit suicide.
It notes that for women having a verbally abusive, jealous, or possessive partner is a risk factor. All data clearly documents verbally abusive, jealous, or possessive behavior is a risk factor for both males and females.
As difficult as it may be to believe, the CDC fact sheet also notes that simply being female is a risk factor. Using this same broad methodology as a measuring tool, simply being born could be considered a risk factor.
The fact sheet does acknowledges that some researchers document that women are more than twice as likely to report IPV as men and that male victimization is greatly underestimated. However, this fact sheet can not resist presenting misleading criminal justice data that documents, 85% female vs. 15% of males report their abuse to the National Crime Victimization Survey.
Progress is Progress
Never the less this most recent CDC fact sheet should be recognized as progress by the federal government concerning the recognition of male victimization. The CDC often works with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) concerning domestic violence issues. The NIJ is the central agency in setting the direction of research and coordinating criminal justice intervention through the dispersal of grants.
The fact sheet acknowledges that increased social support has significantly reduced IPV but ignores the fact that there continues to be very little support for or recognition of male victimization. And reams of data on domestic violence organizations clearly document that when male victimization can not be ignored, it is often minimized and the victims marginalized.
The CDC fact sheet acknowledges that:
Even fewer IPV incidents against men are reported. Thus, it is believed that available data greatly underestimates the true magnitude of the problem [of male victimization].
In the U.S. every year 5.3 million incidents of IPV occur each year among U.S. women ages 18 and older, and 3.2 million occur among men.
About 1.5 million women and more than 800,000 men are raped or physically assaulted by an intimate partner.
More than 1 million women and 371,000 men are stalked by intimate partners each year
29% of women and 22% of men has experienced physical, sexual, or psychological IPV during their lifetime.
In 2002 76% of women and 24% of men were murdered by an intimate partner
At least 42% of women and 20% of men sustained injuries during their most recent victimization.
While there is no question that men are the offenders of IPV homicides more often than women it is also important to note that the Bureau of Justice Statistics documents that men are the victims of the total number of homicides far more often than women and that males and youths have historically been the most vulnerable victims of the total number of violent victimizations.
IPV homicides account for less than ½ of 1% (0.3) of all family violence between 1998 and 2002. From 1993 to 2002 females were 58% of family homicide victims and males 42% http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/fvs.htm.
It is the ideological feminists blame and shame game that keeps men from being part of the solution. The ideological feminist philosophy is designed to keep as many men as possible out as victims and in as offenders. Ideological feminism claims that domestic violence is caused by men who beat and batter women because of sexism and the power and control men have over women in society. This carries the implicit message, believed by men, that men must be the offenders and women their victims.
If domestic violence advocates expect men to become part of the domestic violence solution, those advocates, agencies and the federal government that spends billions to end domestic violence, must recognize that male victimization is not the “rare event” that the National Conference of State Legislatures report, “When Violence Hits Home, and many other ideological feminist claim it is.
This CDC fact sheet is a welcomed and important step but only the first step on the journey to bring about equitable treatment for all victims of domestic violence regardless of age, gender, or sexual orientation.
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A key component of the legislative intent of VAWA is to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assaults through the allocation of federal funds to public and private agencies and bodies of government that provide services to victims of domestic and sexual assaults. Yet the language within the act, the very title of the Act itself, excludes men, and some of the recent revisions to the act exemplify this exclusion: For example, under the recent revisions to Grants to Combat Violence Against Women which include the STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant, the language for underserved populations states:
Redefines “underserved populations,” to include geographic location, race and ethnicity, language barriers, alien age status, age and any other populations determined to be underserved by the state planning process in consultation with the attorney general.
A realistic interpretation of this provision would recognize that men fall into the “other populations.” It seems reasonable and prudent that because men comprise 27% of all victims according to the National Crime Victimization Survey, 36% of all victims according to the Violence Against Women Survey (NCJ 18167), and 50% according to the National Family Violence Survey (see footnote 1), that men should be named specifically within the language of the Act and in all revisions of the Act. Specifically, the re-authorization of VAWA should include the following language: “The provisions of the Violence Against Women Act shall be applied and administered so as to ensure that men are eligible for benefits and services under all available grants funded by the Violence Against Women Act.”
We note that on Oct. 11, 2000 in the Congressional Record Co-sponsor of VAWA Senator Orrin Hatch, made the following statement: “Despite the need to direct federal funds toward the most pressing problem, it was not, and is not, the intent of Congress categorically to exclude men who have suffered domestic abuse or sexual assaults from receiving benefits and services under the Violence Against Women Act.” Despite Senator Hatch’s declaration, all grants administered by the Violence Against Women Office specifically exclude male victims from funding, either by limiting the grant offering only to women and children, or by administrative action declining applications that seek to serve men. Linda Mansour, a Justice Department Spokesperson, told the New York Times, “This is the Violence Against Women Act…We cannot fund the men’s groups.”
Throughout the Act and in all revisions to the Act, the term, men, be added when women are specifically named as victims to reflect the legislative intent. The legislative intent could be significantly strengthened by legislation renaming the act: The Family Violence and Sexual Assault Act. The language of all federal grant applications should specifically name men victims as equal recipients of in-kind services when women victims are specifically named.
| Claim | Fact check | ||||||||||
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| Men make up 5% of the victims of domestic violence | Approximately 1.5 million women and 834,732 men are raped and/or physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the United States (i.e. men make 36% of the victims), according to the Violence Against Women Survey | ||||||||||
| Every 9 seconds in the U.S. a woman is assaulted or beaten | |||||||||||
| One woman is beaten by her husband or partner every 15 second in the US | |||||||||||
| Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women | Sometimes, said as “domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States — more than car accidents, muggins, and rapes combined.”The best research on this is: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 1992 Emergency Department Summary-Centers For Disease Control The CDC study reports on the causes of injury in emergency departments by percentage for women only:
Note that the last figure includes assault by strangers as well, i.e. ALL assault. This study: Violence-Related Injuries in Hospital Emergency Departments-US Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics NCJ-156921 found that of those assaults, 17% of all admissions for assaults are due to intimate partner violence (14% women-3% men).You can read about the history of this factoid. A detailed response to this is also available on page 28 and 29: Violent Touch, by David Fontes. |
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| About 1 out of 4 women is likely to be abused by a partner in her lifetime | |||||||||||
| Nearly 2,000 American women are killed every year by their partners | |||||||||||
| More than eight out of ten men commit violence against wives in India | http://www.proutist-universal.org/archives/000453.html | ||||||||||
| Police nationwide report that between 40 and 60 percent of the calls they receive, especially at night, are domestic disputes. | |||||||||||
| Domestic violence ranks as one of the nation’s most expensive health problems. | |||||||||||
| According to one study, family violence alone may cost the country from $5 to $10 billion every year in health care and associated costs. | |||||||||||
| Half of all homeless women and children in this country are fleeing domestic violence. | |||||||||||
| More than 90 percent of corporate security directors in one survey had seen at least three cases of men stalking women employees and rated domestic violence as a ”high II security problem.” | |||||||||||
| The No. 1 cause of death among pregnant women is murder | According to longtime domestic violence researcher Richard J. Gelles, co-author of Behind Closed Doors, ”to be pregnant alone doesn’t put a woman at risk.””Women between the ages of 20 and 34 suffer the highest rate of domestic violence, and that is also the most likely age to be pregnant,” he says. ”Age is driving the risk, not pregnancy.” quoted in column by Glenn Sacks in a conservative paper (Please note that SAFE Is not a conservative or liberal organization). |
