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“A Crime Against Women”

From a feminist source of “facts” and “news”:

Get the [feminist] facts on domestic violence and women’s rights, including feminist news on violence against women: Domestic Violence Info Center at the Feminist Majority Foundation.

The vast majority of domestic assaults are committed by men. Even when men are victimized, 10% are assaulted by another man. In contrast, only 2% of women who are victimized are assaulted by another woman.

Let’s assume for a moment that those statistics are correct. In that case, “when men are victimized”, and if “10% are assaulted by another man,” that means that 90% of all violent assaults against men are by women perpetrators of violence against men, and that if “only 2% of women who are victimized are assaulted by another woman,” then the other 98% of women victims of violence are being victimized by men.

That means that men and women get victimized in roughly equal proportion by members of the opposite sex, but that virtually all funding for catering to victims of violence goes only to women. The question that comes out of that is: Why exactly is that a crime against women? Is it that women get all of the funding and men get none?

However, logic has never been a feminist strong-point. Feminists have a name for logic. They call it “patriarchal linear thinking.” Feminists deplore logic and even hold it to be an offence.

Violence against women from a more objective perspective

Annual fatalities by sex

Cause

Fatalities

References
Anorexia nervosa (US, annual fatalities) 54 a
Suicides (US, 1996 figures) 31,000 b

male

24,998 b

female

5,905 b
Suicides in Canada (1996)

male

3,093 c

female

848 c
Suicides in Alberta (1997-99)

male

969 d

female

259 d
Injuries in Alberta (1997-99)

male

2,913 d

female

1,198 d
Cancer in Alberta (1997-99)

male

6,895 d

female

6,217 d
Motor Vehicle Related Injuries in Alberta (1997-99)

male

774 d

female

345 d
Deaths in hospitals due to medical errors (US) 98,000 e
Deaths in hospitals due to medical errors, maltreatment and neglect (Canada) 30,000 e
Partner violence in Alberta (annual av.) 13 f

male (est. annual average 1975-99)

3 f

female (est. annual average 1975-99)

10 f
Partner violence in Canada

male (approximate. annual average)

21 g

female (1997, StatCan)

63 g

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References:

  1. Christina Hoff Sommers, “Who Stole Feminism?”, (Quote at <http://fathersforlife.org/health/anorexia8.htm#Deaths>).

  2. Centers for Disease Control (1996 Quotes and sources at <http://fathersforlife.org/ussuic.htm>)

  3. “Suicides, and suicide rate, by sex and by age group” <http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/health01.htm>

  4. “Number of Deaths for Selected Causes By Sex and Region of Residence 1997-99″, Alberta Government, Health and Wellness, Regional Health Authorities <http://www.health.gov.ab.ca/system/rhas/require/b5a-99.htm>

  5. Reader’s Digest; Quote and source at <http://fathersforlife.org/health/anorexia10.htm#HospitalDeaths>)

  6. “Regional Workshop Guide & Workbook” Alberta Government, Feb. 2004 (PDF doc; 2.6MB)

  7. Source: Statistics Canada, quoted and discussed in “Spousal Assault and Murder [in Canada]”, by Eeva Sodhi.
    <http://fathersforlife.org/Sodhi/fvcan1.htm#Spousalassltmrdr>
    The reference is used on account of the important insights Eeva Sodhi’s discussion brings to the debate, primarily her debunking of the editorializing that StatCan routinely engages in with the intent to manufacture victim status for women. The figure of 21 male spousal murder victims is based on the annual average of about one quarter of spousal murder victims that are identified being male.
    In that context it is necessary to recognize the importance of the following statement by Eeva Sodhi: “Considering that a significant number of homicides remain unsolved we can only deduce that the number of men killed by their female partners will never be known.” Time and again, when women murder men, the murders routinely go undetected as such for a very long time (poison is one of women’s favorite murder weapons), and the victim’s murderer therefore goes unpunished or receives at worst only a token of punishment years after she did her deed. In the case of violent murders of men a female perpetrator is one of the last parties to be suspected and the least likely to be convicted, by far.

In light of those statistics, why do Alberta women’s shelters receive as much as $13 million in funding annually, and men’s shelters not only receive no funding at all but aren’t even granted an operating licence? How come [feminist] hatred of men runs that deep? (More)

Your children are safe in school?

The big list: Female teachers with students
Most comprehensive account on Internet of women predators on campus, by WorldNetDailyNews

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