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Tuesday, 16 February 2010

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Groan

An exellent disection of the sexism of the campaign. In fact research in northern ireland,scotland and soutthall all noted a higher incidence of violence against boys by their partners than the reverse. Of course both should treat each other with respect. The campaign is a disgrace.

amfortas

One in 16 and one in 17. The difference? One third of one percent. But heck, let's not quibble, just blame the boys.

What a travesty. Someone, probably many someones are quite aware of this bias and are directing it.

Groan

Exactly . The research this campaign is legitemised by,from Bristol University, simply ignored previous research in the uk. Indeed it stated ther had not been such research when in fact there are three big pieces. In fact the biggest,in terms of numbers, was done for the Nhs in Scotland. All these previous pieces noted the "surprising" finding that violence against boys by girls was slightly higher. In fact the same is true of age peers in the Bristol research! What is dfferent is the small number of cases where the partner is more than a couple of years older than the girl. So there may well be a problem for school girls dating older young men but this is quite different to the campaign. If you look at the research you can see how the problems of a small subset of the sample have been twisted to all teen relationships.


Groan

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Domestic-Violence-Man-Dies-Every-Three-Weeks-Claims-Support-Group-In-New-Campaign/Article/201003115562684?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15562684_Domestic_Violence%3A_Man_Dies_Every_Three_Weeks_Claims_Support_Group_In_New_Campaign.

Story on sky and mentioned on gmtv

Groan

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/sarah-cassidy-tackle-the-cause-not-the-symptoms-1916517.html

A report that doesn't have the headline "more men killed by partners" yet is should.

Bill

As someone who has been physically, emotionally and financially abused by a woman with a serious personality disorder I find this campaign very offensive. Our children are also victims of this behavior. In English family law there is NO protection against a woman with this capacity. In fact the opposite is true, as a man I had to show regret for involving the police when assaulted and as a man I had to prove that I was capable parent. No questions asked about the abusive woman! England is 50-75 years behind in views on gender compared to Northern European countries and about half of the US states. It is pathetic and should be brought into the center of the election campaign.

Groan

Just to note Cosmopolitan has a goot piece on a Male victim in its April edition.
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/your-life/april-2010-cosmopolitan-magazine/v1

The exelent Mark Brooks and Mankind get a mention. Amen has the text on its site.

http://www.amen.ie/Papers/0410_her_fist_slammed_into_my_face_cosmopolitan.htm

Keep chipping away to gain recognition


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ZimbaZumba

The research that this campaign is based is suspect, the University of Bristol has a history of advocacy based research. If you are going to base public policy on "new found facts", they had better be well founded and the research should go through independent peer review. Their report did not.

They found there was a difference in the extent of male on female and female on male abuse, which may be true albeit not massive. Then they introduce the nebulous concept of

"Research shows that suffering from abuse in relationships is more common for young women.. "

so as reduce the significance of female on male abuse into oblivion. The operative word being "suffering" this is a highly gendered concept and also results come from interviews. Young men would respond differently very likely minimising it for purposes of pride. A peer reviewer would laugh that into the "paper rejected bin".

These adverts and the research behind them are a disgrace. The associated site at

http://thisisabuse.direct.gov.uk

is in my view even worse as Government money is involved. The level of unfettered bias and bigotry that has leaked into our institutions is horrific.

This what female on male dating violence can look like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_9CoH8upE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxFXO2OIj5M

John Kimble

A well informed contribution ZimbaZumba.

Bristol is certainly leading the way in terms of producing anti-male "research" these days although they're far from the only ones.

In contrast you'll find some very progressive voices at Lancaster University.

flies

Very descriptive article, I loved that a lot. Will there be a part 2?

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