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I do know a few straight mothers that had given up, and decided to just get artificially inseminated, and they are all quite happy. Day care is still a problem, but I do know several single mothers that figured how to work at home, and still make enough to provide for themselves and their child or children, A few that convinced their single retired mothers to move in, a few that worked out a sharing program with other single mothers, and a few that found acceptable day cares services. The fact that a college educated woman can do just fine raising a child entirely by myself, without ever needing social assistance, is reason enough for every young girl to work hard to make life easier for herself as an adult.
No woman need ever feel bad just because she can't find a fellow worth sh*t. If all the men in your life give you disgust, never acceptable the unacceptable, because millions of women have proved that life of independence is much more rewarding than a life of abuse or sorrow.
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(Double DICK) Richard Johnson's threat of gang rape earned him Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person In The World" dishonor today, beating out Bill O who was not tough enough on Ann coultergist when he interviewed her about her anti-semitic remark, and Rush Sleazebag who threaten to invade the past and privacy of one of his critics.
Altogether now... gang rape threats are never acceptable. And if you publicly make a gang rape threat you will earn "Worst Person In The World" dishonors.
The "myself" was one of my characteristic numerous typos, but yeah, I could raise my kids if anything, god(dess) forbid, were to happen to my wife.
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The tone of my message to AKA Smith, didn't quite come out the way I wanted it to. I was agreeing with her about the benefits of artificial insemination, and that it is better to be independent than suffer a life of abuse or sorrow.
I guess we should ignore the fact that woman are ever domestic violence victims, all because you found one account of a man that was abused by his wife.
You are so much like the men that plead that women never really get raped because the Duke lacrosse team was falsely accused.
Buddy, one account doesn't prove a trend.
If you want us to believe that only women abuse, then that will strike horribly at reality.
If you want to say that every account of rape was false, then that also would strike horribly at reality.
The truth is that a lot more women are domestic violence victims than men are (I am not sure what the exact figure is, but I am sure it is at least 9 times as much) and a lot of women get date raped every day.
Those are the real trends Jim, and if you are too stupid to realize what is really happening, then why don't you go off an join the Armenian Holocaust deniers, the Jewish holocaust deniers, the global warming deniers, the flat Earthers, the Earth is the center of the universe believers, the T-rexs played nice with Eve's children believers, and the Iraq had something to do with 9/11 and possessed WMD believers.
Denying reality is not going to get you a sympathetic ear here.
Actually I would suggest that people check out Glenn Sacks' page, but only to view how out there a man can get.
The short version of him is that he believes that Child Welfare Services, Child Support services, Family Advocacy services, Victim's rights groups, and every other protection organization are bad, and actually abuse men.
If we were to believe Sacks, all dads are good men, men never rape, and rape and child abuse cases are all part of a great plot against men. Men can do no wrong in Glenn Sacks eyes, and he is going to fight the system of protective services and organization all by himself if he has to.
It would be great if all men were as decent as Sacks believes, but a tough thing known as reality burst his bubble. Most men, possibly more than 95% of them, are good people, but not all of them are, which is why we have those protective services and organizations that Sacks so loathes.
For supporting my argument that woman are in fact more likely to be a victim of domestic violence than men are.
You omitted that most of the male rape victims are actually raped by men.
Anyways this was the figure I found:
THE TARGETS. Women are 10 times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate. Young women, women who are separated, divorced or single, low-income women and African-American women are disproportionately victims of assault and rape. Domestic violence rates are five times higher among families below poverty levels, and severe spouse abuse is twice as likely to be committed by unemployed men as by those working full time. Violent attacks on lesbians and gay men have become two to three times more common than they were prior to 1988.
Provided by NOW.
I'll look into it further to see how NOW got their statistics.
But even by the CDC statistic that you provided, women are murdered by their intimate other more than 3 times as often as men are, are stalked nearly 3 times as much, and are assaulted nearly twice as often.
Men are oh-so-great, aren't they?
Sorry I did not know you were Armenian. My comment was to express my desire to have the Armenian holocaust acknowledged. I was pissed at Dubya for allowing Turkey to further deny their Armenian genocide during WW1.
No denial of the truth and reality is acceptable.
How pissed off at Dubya were you?