mothra wrote on Dec 26
th, 2015 at 11:37pm:
Setanta wrote on Dec 26
th, 2015 at 11:34pm:
mothra wrote on Dec 26
th, 2015 at 11:28pm:
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Dec 26
th, 2015 at 11:25pm:
mothra wrote on Dec 26
th, 2015 at 10:14pm:
I like Grap alot but i certainly take strong objection to his gender politics.
Mothra - I respect you and your views greatly - but these are not MY gender politics. They are gender politics of those who choose to arbitrarily make me their enemy... and then forced upon me.
You really must begin to see these things on a truly equal basis... something that will never be achieved as long as we hold to the "man bad - woman angel" nonsense.
The real war is about to begin... the one promoted and engineered by feminists and government in order to draw men into an unequal battle in which they hold no weapons and genuinely have no interest.
Is it any wonder then that when weapons are drawn.... some men respond by winning their skirmish?
Stop attacking men.... and men will stop attacking you.
Women didn't start attacking men. Men have had unequal power over women for centuries. Still do.
Some men are violent Grap. Howwould you prefer us to respond to that?
I've seen women attacking men. Men have unequal power because they are physically stronger in most cases, that as far as it goes and you can blame nature for that. In other cases like someone I played cricket with, he was beaten with fry pans, knives thrown, verbal abuse. Poor bugger eventually left but slowly as he was a polio survivor with a leg that was rather short and rubbery. Not very big either.
It's not just physical power. It's economic power. Emotional power.
I'm not saying for a second that men aren't the victims of DV. I;ve long advocated for men who are too ashamed to come forward because of social stigma owing to being abused by somebody 'weaker' than them ... but that does not negate the very pure fact that most victims of DV are women and children, Most aggressors are men.
2 women die every week.
Every week.
So giving women and the State the 'right' to attack, violate and intimidate men, and giving women 'economic power' while men have nothing and are robbed of a fair chance to earn a decent living, and allowing the power of emotion to over-ride any reason in a relationship, on any whim.... somehow balances this PAST alleged problem?
No - it does not - not unless you want civil war.
Two women die every week in remote Aboriginal communities and in certain ethnic groups... that in no way translates to the general community.
I lodged one of two dissenting views over the Law Reform Commission's intention to install 'uniform domestic violence laws' - in 1992 - one of my objections was that using figures and anecdotal evidence from 'remote Aboriginal communities fraught with domestic violence' did NOT give an accurate reflection of the community as a whole, and would lead to punishment on no evidence of many people who were not involved in 'domestic violence' at all.. but who merely had a disagreement over some issue with their spouse.
That has all come to pass and countless innocent men have been violated, robbed and abused.. leading to retaliation in those same communities I posited way back then and from otherwise decent men who would not BE violent unless attacked.... 23 years ago.....
When will they ever learn? Using violence to control violence will never work... and I am no hippy.... some call me Colonel... but the real title is Major....