Letters to the Editor
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nature or nuture or nature and nurture? , and SAM SCAM
And I suppose you think that because your wife hit you, that proves women are really more aggressive than men, just like SAM SCAM thinks the fact that Condoleeza Rice and Jane Goodall are successful women means that women don't have any impediments to success. These are isolated instances, and you can't generalize from them. You have to look at larger samplings. The vast majority of domestic abusers are men.
And Sam Scam, you are a complete moron. Of course, there are many successful women in many fields, but that doesn't mean we don't still live in a male-dominated culture. Look at the Senate-how many women (or minorities, for that matter) are in it? Look at any branch of government and the leadership of the most powerful corporations. These are the sites of powerin this country and they are dominated by white men, so we live in a white-male-dominated society. Duh!
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I have actually heard women complain that Star Trek Voyager is MALE DOMINATED
pure insanity, what can you say. Actually I think I figured it out though, what happens is that women apply the alpha girl/lovingly devoted and totally submissive female syncophant model to the situation; when women get authority in a "male" arena they expect EVERYONE, male and female, to treat them the way an alpha girl is treated by her female followers. What they don't/refuse to get is that no male, no matter what his authority, ever gets that from his male subordinates. Actually I found the situation portrayed on Voyager very natural and much like real life, in spite of, or perhaps because of, the fact that it was totally female dominated. But, even though this was the case, the men still had a role (albiet a very secondary one) to play that mattered to the women and in the overall situation, maybe this is why the women are not seen by some as having fully emerged from male domination.
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Vast majority?
http://www.glennsacks.com/new_doj_domestic.htm
An analysis of 552 domestic violence studies published in the Psychological Bulletin found that 38 percent of the physical injuries in heterosexual domestic assaults are suffered by men.
These are not isolated instances.
Women do commit domestic violence is sizable numbers. This does not make women bad. Just like the fact that men commit domestic violence does not make men bad. Except that men are already bad, and your comment demonstrates that.
I forget, what is it called when you enter into an argument or conversation with preconceived notions about people that are based on gender or race?
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injuries and hitting are not the same
woman can and do hit men all the time, but because it usually doesn't result in injury it doesn't count; if a man indulges his temper in an equivalent way there is likely to be damage and legal consequences. If a woman wants to do REAL damage she has to wait till he's asleep or drunk or something thus suggesting premeditation, whereas a man do real damage on the spur of the moment and therefore still be able to somewhat plausibly ask for mitigation on the grounds of "no planning or intent". Women naturally find this terribly unfair, hence the inclination to define ALL violence against men by women as defensive.
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I forget, what is it called when you enter into an argument or conversation with preconceived notions about people that are based on gender or race?
I do not know, but I don't think it is relevant. 62% is a large majority. But regardless of actual numbers, and I didn't mean to imply that female-against-male violence shouldn't be taken seriously, I was responding more to the sarcasm of your post, as if the fact that your wife hit you was supposed to mean something about women in general to the rest of us. I'm sorry about your marriage, and perhaps it was insensitive of me to even comment on your post, but I just don't think the fact that your wife hits you has the least relevance to this discussion.
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Women hitting men would be over 50%
but for the fact that women have more options available to them than do men in marriage.
A woman can walk away and win, but a man will inevitably suffer if he leaves a marriage.
Men know they are stuck. Also women tend to pick stupider more shallow and out of control men to marry, mostly because it gives the women a sense of superiority over their man and because it gives them a plausible out when he inevitably becomes violent.
all sad, all true.
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Get over it.
Five years ago I was going through a bitter divorce with my then wife. She is a high powered doctor who made alot more money than I and had the narcisstic ego to match. When she decided to divorce me she had a problems. She was going to have to pay me alimony (if I chose) and I was going to end up with more time with our child because I was the de facto primary care giver.
Her solution was to cook up a fraudulent claim against me accusing me of "threatening her" and our daughter with physical violence so she could force me out of the house (and keep the house) and have sole custody. There is a God above because I had found some documents hidden with all of the financial records of the money she had filched and left me paying the taxes.
This is all true.
The best part of this is that because I knew what she was up to without her knowing I was able to destroy her attack. I filed for divorce first which made it very hard for her to claim she was trying to protect herself. Better yet my attorney took her deposition and was able to get her in a perjury trap. She agree to settle with us have way through the deposition.
There is an old saying in the South that goes, " She is the type of woman who would never say the word shit even when she has a mouth full". I was nearly kept away from my child because of a group of gender bigots such as my ex wife, her feminist lawyer, and the other 90 % of the divorce industry that feels men are poaching on their turf. The fact that a man actually want alimony, indeed.
I will end by saying this, women like Joan attack frontally when they can but that is not very often. Rather they will talk about how "threatened" they are. They rip into men when they can. They also know when to be willfully blind and silent.
PS - what do you think ever happened to my ex for comitting purjury? A lot less than happened to Lawrence Summers.