For the most part, the fight against domestic violence has been lead by left-leaning people. I am making a case that conservatives should take a strong stance against domestic violence as well. The reason is not gender equality, and it is not nonviolence. Conservatism believes in neither. Rather the reasons are two concepts central to conservatism: Character and incentives. Much conservative ideation revolves around the concept of character. A man who beats up on people who can't defend themselves from him does not have character; he is a coward and a slimeball. One major part of character is self-control, and another major part of character is refusing to abuse one's power. From the perspective of character, it stands to reason that violence toward women is incompatible with character; which means that it is incompatible with conservatism. Another concept central to conservatism is that of incentives. The conservative wants to make profitable the actions that are beneficial and not profitable the actions that aren't. There needs to be an incentive on men to act with character; and that means, to avoid being violent to their wives. For this reason both the institution of divorce, which makes it possible for women and children to leave situations of violence, and the institution of jailing men who are guilty of serious violence, work for the benefit of conservatism. They make it profitable for men to behave with character toward their wives and their children and not profitable for men to act without character toward their wives and their children. Thus, according to conservatism itself, there need to be strong laws in place - and strong enforcement of these laws in place - to prevent violence toward women and children. Men need to be taught to behave like gentlemen, and strong measures need to be taken against men who do not. Character most certainly demands controlling oneself around the people who are closest to oneself. And incentives, whether the right for the woman to leave a man who practices violence toward the woman and the children, or criminalization of domestic violence, must be in place to demand this gentlemanly behavior. The fight against violence to women should not only involve people on the Left. The conservatives should be in the front lines of this fight as well, as doing so is a natural outgrowth of conservative values. Character most certainly means controlling oneself around the people closest to oneself. The men of goodwill will do that anyway. But for men of ill will, there is a need for incentives to act with character. A lot of men who practice real abuses toward wives and children hide behind social conservatism and then go around posturing that they have character or values and that other people do not. They don't have character, and they don't have values; and for as long as these people use conservatism in that way, that discredits conservatism and its claims of supporting family values. If there really is to be a pressure on people to behave in more righteous ways, then that most certainly means a pressure to end violence against women. A man with character would never allow himself to behave in that way; and men who would must be subjected to strong incentives against doing that. If conservatism is serious about its claims of possessing character, then it will fight violence against women. And if it does not do that, then it cannot be allowed to maintain its claim of being in favor of character and family values.
This bibliography examines 286 scholarly investigations: 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 371,600. http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm Women are more violent than men, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...dy-622388.html Almost 24% of all relationships had some violence, and half (49.7%) of those were reciprocally violent. In nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases., http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi...PH.2005.079020 research that has found that most partner violence is mutual and that self-defense explains only a small percentage of partner violence by either men or women, http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/V71-St...ence-PV_10.pdf
This study proves violence against boys and men is one of the consequences of the anti-intellectualism in the form of feminist biased moderation on nearly every site on the internet. From the Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research “This drop in IPV against females and steady rate of violence against males raises an interesting policy question. There are many thousands of support programs, web sites and public-interest media items for female victims of domestic violence (DV), and virtually no programs and only a handful of web sites in the USA for male victims. Perhaps these programs and public education efforts have resulted in males, but not females, getting the message that DV is wrong.” “…those that are the core of the DV service system: DV agencies, DV hotlines, and the police. On the one hand, about 25% of men who sought help from DV hotlines were connected with resources that were helpful. On the other hand, nearly 67% of men reported that these DV agencies and hotline were not at all helpful. Many reported being turned away. The qualitative accounts in our research tell a story of male helpseekers who are often doubted, ridiculed, and given false information.” In 41.5 percent of the cases where men called the police, the police asked if he wanted his partner arrested; in 21 percent the police refused to arrest the partner, and in 38.7 percent the police said there was nothing they could do and left http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17042186&
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/V75-Straus-09.pdf CURRENT CONTROVERSIES AND PREVALENCE CONCERNING FEMALE OFFENDERS OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE Why the Overwhehning Evidence on Partner Physical Violel.1~e1>y"\Vo1ll.enHas Not Been Perceived and Is Often Denied MURRAY A. STRAUS Universi(y o/New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA Over 200 studies have found about the same percentage ofwomen as men physically assault partners, and that the risk factors and motivations are mostly the same as for men. Explanations are suggested for why this fundamental fact has not been perceived by the public and practitioners' including concealment and denial by many academics who know the research. Explanations for concealment and denial are also presented, with discussion ofthe adverse effect that misperception and denial have had on prevention and treatment programs, The practical implications of recognizing gender symmetry in partner violence are discussed. http://newmalestudies.com/OJS/index.php/...view/59/59 Male Victims of Domestic Violence DonalD G. Dutton Katherine r. White Abstract Intimate partner violence (IPV) or domestic violence (DV) is often framed as a “woman’s issue” or “violence against women” generating the perception of males involved in violent relationships as the aggressor and more capable of inflicting injury or causing harm to their partner. Due to this set of beliefs called the “gender paradigm”, male victims are often met with disbelief or suspicion when they attempt to gain protection from a female partner, or access services. Male victims may also report difficulty in locating services specific to their needs, as help lines or shelters are targeted exclusively towards female victims. These issues and the implications for male victims will be discussed. Conclusion Both male victims and male perpetrators have a more difficult experience in the aftermath of IPV. Male perpetrators receive harsher legal penalties, and are judged as more capable of inflicting injury or instilling fear in their female partner. This is true even when they have been part of a bilateral IPV pattern. Male victims also fare worse when attempting to access services, as males are more likely to be labelled the aggressor and to be treated with suspicion and injuries they have sustained are likely to be minimized. Custody assessments are misdirected, focusing on the male as the sole source of threat to children for physical abuse. A major revision of our thinking is required, one that is empirically based and can to alter an emotionally tinged stereotype http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41-PR41-...ess-07.pdf Children and Youth Services Review 30 (200 252–275 Dominance and symmetry in partner violence by male and female university students in 32 nations Murray A. Straus Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, United States Abstract The study investigated the widely held beliefs that physical violence against partners (PV) in marital, cohabiting, and dating relationships is almost entirely perpetrated by men, and that the major risk factor for PV is male dominance in the relationship. The empirical data on these issues were provided by 13,601 university students in 32 nations who participated in the International Dating Violence Study. The results in the first part of this paper show that almost one-third of the female as well as male students physically assaulted a dating partner in the previous 12 months, and that the most frequent pattern was bidirectional, i.e., both were violent, followed by “female-only” violence. Violence by only the male partner was the least frequent pattern according to both male and female participants. The second part of the article focuses on whether there is gender symmetry in a crucial aspect of the etiology of partner PV — dominance by one partner. The results show that dominance by either the male or the female partner is associated with an increased probability of violence. These results, in combination with results from many other studies, call into question the assumption that PV is primarily a male crime and that, when women are violent, it is usually in self-defense. Because these assumptions are crucial elements in almost all partner PV prevention and treatment programs, a fundamental revision is needed to bring these programs into alignment with the empirical data. Prevention and treatment of PV could become more effective if the programs recognize that most PV is bidirectional and act on the high rate of perpetration by women and the fact that dominance by the female partner is as strongly related to PV as dominance by the male partner. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/wp-con...epaper.pdf Hit like a Girl: Women Who Batter Their Partners Theresa Porter Abstract Domestic violence by women represents a blind spot for western society. Since 1977, multiple large scale international studies have demonstrated the women can and do beat, batter and murder their male and female intimate partners at a rate equal to or higher than that of man, yet this issue is not simply ignored but denied by society at large. Women’s use of domestic violence is misrepresented by the media and denied by feminists, both of whom find the topic threatening. Despite this gender symmetry in domestic violence, media representations display male perpetrators 10 times more often than they display female perpetrators and when it is displayed, it is usually shown as humorous. For the media and the society it caters to, domestically violent women represent a failure of social control; women are not behaving in the expected manner. For feminists, domestically violent women threaten the victim paradigm upon which much of Second Wave feminist was based. This paper will examine the prevalence of domestic violence by women against their intimate partners, explore the societal myths and gender dogma that both hides and perpetuates this form of violence by women. 1. Introduction 2. Denial and misrepresentation in research Yet if one were to ask most people, they would deny awareness of the extent of women’s domestic violence in western culture. This is in part due to the denial and misrepresentation of the issue by several groups, including Second Generation feminists, researchers and the media. The discourse on gender symmetry in intimate partner violence by Second Generation feminists often involves claims that women’s violence is less injurious than men’s violence, as if this is a relevant issue. No one should be subjected to abuse, regardless of their physical strength. This argument also ignores the women victims in violent lesbian relationships, where the difference in body strength can be supposed to be less pronounced. Finally, it is important to recall that women compensate for any discrepancy in size by using weapons more often than do men12. 3. Denial and misrepresentation in media and society 4. Consequences [...] Ultimately, all violence is complex and multi-determined with individual, social and cultural factors47. Women’s intimate partner violence occurs in the context of a significant double standard about violence and gender, with women’s violence seen as funny or unimportant, or simply not seen at all. It is somehow always circumstantial and beyond women’s control. It is time to move beyond simplistic, dichotomous thinking and biased research and recognize all types of intimate violence in order to stop it
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