The site has had a few kindly comments about the books it has been featuring. No excerpt this time but a book I have been reading is Erin Pizzey's 'This Way To The Revolution' .
A key part for me is how the "Women's Movement", despite the fact she set up the first refuge, have tried to disown her, discredit her and carry out all sorts of other unpleasantness - because she would not play along with all the men are bxstards line and all women are angels line.
The fact that Refuge do not even acknowledgeher existence speaks volumes about them and every day they refuse to acknowledge her is another day they are discredited. It is also worth noting (and I looked) that the Guardian and feminists and bloggers said nothing on the book - effectively no platforming her. How the sisterhood hate sisters they disagree with - she is the 'disappeared' from the feminist lexicon.
The other part is that without her, there would be no organisations supporting male victims of domestic abuse - No ManKind Initiative (who she is a honorary patron of), no Abused Men in Scotland, no Dyn Project etc and certainly no refuges/safe houses for men - though there is precious little which she still campaigns about. She has stuck at this issue and made it possible for them to exist and made it possible for support and recognition, however little and however grudging, for male victims of domestic abuse to exist.
Posted by Skimmington
One last note - this always brings a smile especially as it was such a great riposte to David Cameron for his tawdry comments on Father's Day last year.
"The other part is that without her, there would be no organisations supporting male victims of domestic abuse - No ManKind Initiative (who she is a honorary patron of), no Abused Men in Scotland, no Dyn Project etc and certainly no refuges/safe houses for men"
Well she didn't actually found any of those organisations so I think some might still have existed without her (albeit being established much later and with less credibility).
She's a fantastic woman. It doesn't' bother me that the sexist feminists have written her out of the history of their movement. However, the lack of recognition from the government is a disgrace. CBEs and OBEs are given away for fun these days, yet a genuine hero who desperately deserves recognition (and has done for the last 40 Years) gets nothing.
Posted by: John Kimble | Friday, 13 January 2012 at 00:59
Erin Pizzey has been an inspiration for many years, a rare voice of reason and compassion in the domestic violence debate. It's long been known by researchers (other than Feminist ones, obviously) that domestic violence is as often committed by women against men, as by men against women, at all levels of seriousness up to and including murder (Steve Moxon's 'The Woman Racket' and Swayne O'Pie's 'Why Britain Hates Men' cover this topic well).
The reason we hear less about Erin Pizzey than we should is due to the dire influence of militant feminists in the media, in publishing houses etc.
Maybe if you asked her, she could have an extract of the book sent to you for posting on this site?
Mike Buchanan
www.lpspublishing.co.uk
Posted by: Mike Buchanan | Friday, 13 January 2012 at 01:00