| 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.
| The
truth about domestic violence statistics |
| 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
| |
%
experiencing this type of assault |
| Type of assault |
Men |
Women |
|
Slap, shake or scratch
|
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
| |
%
Victims |
| Type of assault |
Men |
Women |
|
Injured, needed first aid
|
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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