http://nctimes.com/articles/2005/03/02/opinion/commentary/22_56_053_1_05.txt

By: HARRY CROUCH

Denis Devine's Valentine Day's present ("Heroes needed in fight against
sexism," Perspective, Feb. 20) is a half-empty box of chocolates.

There is no evidence substantiating men perpetrate more than 90 percent of
domestic violence as reported by Devine. In fact, the San Diego Office of
Crime Prevention last year found 26 percent of the county's domestic
violence arrests were women.

Hundreds of academic studies from numerous Westernized countries show women
abuse men as much or more than men abuse women! Few studies suggest
otherwise, though skewed domestic violence industry "stake-holder" reports
are abundant.

Moreover, females commit the majority of child abuse, elder abuse, almost
all child murders (not counting abortions), and most bullying in schools.

Women kill their partners more than is commonly believed. Women hire
killers, seduce people to murder, and use poison, the latter often hard to
trace while creating the appearance of natural death. These killers seldom
show up in domestic violence or murder statistics. Incidentally, the average
prison sentence for male murderers is 17 years versus seven for women.

Paternity fraud, parental alienation and false accusations satisfy legal
definitions of domestic violence. Women commit all paternity fraud annually,
victimizing millions of people, men and their families of choice. Women
commit the overwhelming majority of parental alienation and false
accusations. False accusations gain advantage in divorce, child custody and
child support disputes. Coupled with false accusations, parental alienation
is pure spite. Estimated rates of false accusations run 40 percent to 90
percent, depending upon the type of accusation(s).

Most male domestic-violence-related deaths are suicides. Men kill themselves
four times more frequently than women, and 10 to 12 times more frequently
when relationships end, because men have nowhere to turn.

In fact, California law excludes men from legally being "victims" for the
purposes of receiving funding for related support services, another abuse of
males, young and older, while California women have more services and abuse
excuses than Carter's proverbial pills.

The "90+ percent" myth is central to all "gender (power)
feminist" efforts
to minimize female violent behaviors and achieve legal, social, governmental
and cultural power and control; hence, the difference between the findings
of various studies and actual arrest rates. So central are they that until
recently, openly discussing lesbian-on-lesbian violence branded any feminist
a traitor and heretic.

Power feminist hyperbole, myth, propaganda, political correctness and
chauvinism support the belief that men primarily perpetrate domestic
violence, not truth.

Lynndie England's smile while torturing Iraqi prisoners pretty much says it
all.

Many experts argue the ideologically driven domestic-violence industry
causes more violence than it prevents, destroys otherwise intact families
and labels people criminals, mostly men, for the mildest of infractions ----
all more abuse and violence by definition.

Devine's Valentine's Day present gave us 10 typical domestic-violence
industry, politically correct recommendations for men to help reduce
violence against women, and none for women to help reduce violence against
men. The recommendations become more credible when gender inclusive;
otherwise, they are misandric, divisive, wrongheaded, hypocritical and
wholly counterproductive.

The question must be what can we all do to end our violence against each
other.

Harry Crouch is a full-time men's rights activist and a member of the San
Diego Domestic Violence Council. Views expressed herein are not necessarily
those of the organizations with which he is associated. E-mail comments to:
harryal55Z{at}earthlink.net.


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