British women already enjoy state-sponsored power in intimate relationships, and new legislation currently being proposed is about to increase it. Mike Buchanan warns that vast numbers of British women are going to exercise that additional power, and ruthlessly.
When a woman goes to jail feminists won’t let anything, including the facts, get in their way when they flock to the rescue. Diana Davison investigated and found some inconvenient truths about “battered woman” Marissa Alexander.
Janet Bloomfield did some intense investigation into domestic violence research. You will never believe what she found. The National Violence Against Women Survey found that there was violence happening to women, and made sure of that result with their methodology. See, we told you that you would never believe it.
Victorian Police Commissioner Ken Lay gave an emotive and hyperbolic speech, titled “Breaking the pattern of family violence is everyone’s responsibility” in which he dramatised and exaggerated violence against women while refusing to properly acknowledge male victims. Greg Canning brings us the story.
Sometimes, the appropriate adjectives escape us when it comes to describing certain individuals in this world. Such is the case with John Nazarian, private investigator for Pauley Perrette and a host of other Hollywood A-listers. “Scummy” is good, but it is obviously just a start. Three minutes of him talking will quickly make that apparent.
Natasha Stott Despoja is an Australian advocate concerned with intimate partner violence. Well, as long as male victims and female perpetrators are not part of the picture. Greg Canning issues an open letter to Stott Despoja, inquiring as to her motives for a strictly gendered view of a non gendered problem.
A moving and impressive video from the folks at Mankind Initiative.
It’s day 24 of Domestic Violence Awareness Month for Men and Boys, the invisible victims of domestic violence. Today’s In His Own Words is an example of the systemic abuse to which men and boys are frequently subjected.
Brave men step forward to tell their stories in Australia, where it’s no better than in the United States. Will anyone listen or, more importantly, take some sort of action? Or will they still be laughed at, smirked at, or marginalized as irrelevant or a “tiny minority?”
Ally Fogg counts on followers that missed the literature part of literature class, and never developed a working understanding of satire or any other literary vehicle. We aim to help them out here at A Voice for Men, such as that is possible.
