White Ribbon Day - another excuse for male bashing
The White Ribbon Foundation, another group with a male-denigration agenda
issued a media release, on 17th November quoting an extremely biased report
commissioned by the group, which sets out, along with various
feminist front
groups, to show that all domestic violence is perpetrated by men.
The foundation is more insidious than most such groups as it has been clever
enough to find male stooges to front for it. TV host, Andrew O'Keefe is
Australia's such stooge.
Typical of the tone of the report is, "One in four children had witnessed violence
against their mother and half of all young people had seen her subjected to
verbal, emotional or psychological abuse".
There was not one word in the media release about women subjecting men to
verbal, emotional or psychological abuse, arts in which many would say, women
excel in.
Like all such groups, the White Ribbon Foundation uses an inflammatory report to inveigle the
government into providing taxpayer funds to entrench their position.
No self-respecting male should wear a white ribbon on the group's white ribbon
day. Nor should any wife or daughter or mother with a son.
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The truth
about domestic violence statistics
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A survey by Bruce Heady and Dorothy Scott of Melbourne University
and David De Vaus of La Trobe University exposes the feminist lie that
only women are victims of domestic violence.
The survey of 1643 persons found that men are assaulted more
frequently than women in domestic situations, as the tables below
reveal.
Per cent assaulted by their partners in the past 12 months
1996/97. Survey of 804 men and 839 women
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% experiencing this type of assault
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| Type of assault |
Men |
Women |
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Slap, shake or scratch
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5.1% |
3.2% |
| Hit with fist or something in hand, or
thrown |
4.1% |
2.5% |
| Kicked |
2.1% |
1.4% |
| Any type of assault (one or more of the
above) |
5.7% |
3.7% |
Table 4. Injury and pain due to
assaults (N=1643). Australia 1996/97
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% Victims
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| Type of assault |
Men |
Women |
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Injured, needed first aid
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1.8% |
1.2% |
| Needed treatment by a
doctor or nurse |
1.5% |
1.1% |
| Pain as bad as hitting
thumb with a hammer, or worse |
1.9% |
1.9% |
| Called the police or other
government authority |
1.3% |
1.7% |
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