Letters to the Editor
Parson Jim
Published Letters: 582 Editor's Choice: 7
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Well
[Read the article: Why aren't boys allowed to be victims?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The last time this topic was broached on BS, it was concerned about the female teachers involved, not the male children who were their victims:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/01/17/teacher_sex/index.html
Read the comments, they are almost as disturbing as Salentan's "internet analysis" of sentences that let female teachers off relatively lightly for their pedophilia crimes.
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@juliebird
[Read the article: Why aren't boys allowed to be victims?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If a 30-40 year old is having sex with a 15-year-old, it's called molestation, not "having a relationship".
She is a pedophile. Normal adults don't become involved sexually with 15-year-olds.
If the sexes in your anecdote were reversed, I'm sure you would have phrased the situation differently.
That's part of the problem the AP article is addressing, and it appears very deep-seated, indeed.
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Misquoted
[Read the article: Why aren't boys allowed to be victims?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"maybe you missed it Smith but he was saying that even when both parties are OVER 21 certain relationships should still be illegal
once you cross that threshold what limit is there in principle to how much the govt. can interfere in anyones sex life. None."
I said no such thing.
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Women have tremendous power
[Read the article: What's so funny about abusive girlfriends?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Where domestic violence is concerned, women are a legally privileged class. People make fun of female-instigated violence, whether against boys or men, because they are uncomfortable about it, and it is taboo in our society.
When a woman molests a boy or beats up a man or boy, she is either portrayed as a victim herself, or else is in thrall to a female-specific psychological disorder. If Andrea Yates or Mary Winkler were men, they would both be in prison for a very long time.
This is one area where the right and left-wing feminists are aligned, and legislation such as VAWA and statewide laws allowing funding for shelters that only serve women are part of the reason why this myth persists - it's an industry that feeds off the feminist bigotry that spawned it in the first place.
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@ReganaD
[Read the article: What's so funny about abusive girlfriends?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Mary Winkler's dead husband would disagree with you, were he still alive. Of course, having a shotgun blow out your spine and internal organs while you are asleep might be seen as feminist justice, by some....
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@melthough
[Read the article: What's so funny about abusive girlfriends?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The last time I checked, feminist groups such as NOW and others were behind VAWA and the debacle in California that denies state funding to shelters for male victims of domestic violence.
No "patriarchal" organizations were responsible for this sexism, only feminist ones.
The same groups lobby continually against joint custody legislation in the event of divorce. So it appears children are the chattel of women in the US, a fact about which feminist groups are also in denial.
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@sclatter - Powerlessness?
[Read the article: What's so funny about abusive girlfriends?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It's like when a small child lashes out when it's not getting it's way. Fundamentally, it's an expression of powerlessness."
How sick and completely untrue.
I don't think the dead Mr. Winkler would have viewed the hold in his back as a gesture of weakness.
Clara Harris was not expressing "weakness" when she ran over her husband, twice, killing him. With his daughter from a previous marriage in the seat next to her, a girl who has been further traumatised by her stepmother's attempts to whitewash her crime.
Socorro Caro wasn't powerless when she shot three of her four children dead as a way to further abuse her husband, after physically abusing him for years.
Larissa Schuster wasn't powerless after she put her unconscious husband in a barrel of hydrochloric acid, pouring in more after she noticed his legs weren't fully dissolved by the acid.
How much more bullshit and denial do we need to see on BS and other blogs regarding violence against men? Apologists who ignore this kind of violence are reprehensible and pathetic.
The victimhood lie only takes you so far.