October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As she did last year, Dr, Tara Palmatier of shrink4men.com will be sharing a daily post with readers aimed at increasing awareness of the untold part of the domestic violence issue: Abused men. Each personal story reveals one person’s tragedy, and the series reveals the tragedy of how poorly this society reactions to abused men.
The idea that domestic violence is overwhelmingly committed by men qualifies as a zombie narrative. Nothing but a head shot will kill it. Tim Patten is locked and loaded.
The following is a letter to Washington Post columnist Miriam Berger regarding recent columns about “Abuse Surging During the Pandemic” *** Dear Ms. Berger, I respectfully ask that you take the time to read this letter in its entirety and to thoughtfully consider what I say here. As a lifelong reader of the Washington Post, …
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Relationships Australia purports to be a major supporter of individuals and families experiencing domestic violence. So I wondered: how can they help if you are a male experiencing domestic violence? For example, what services can they provide if you are a male experiencing physical abuse, psychological and emotional abuse, coercive control, and financial abuse within …
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Professor Nicola Graham-Kevan has long been an internationally renowned (British) authority on domestic violence and coercive control, and is unusual in those fields in being a non-feminist. We’ve just posted her keynote speech (70 minutes) – “Coercive Control and Domestic Violence” – from our recent (online) conference, “Domestic Abuse is a Men’s Issue, Too”. We …
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John Freeman tells there’s no reason a man ever need suffer DV again when it is so easily corrected.
The idea that domestic violence is overwhelmingly committed by men qualifies as a zombie narrative. Nothing but a head shot will kill it. Tim Patten is locked and loaded.
Bettina Arndt looks past the posturing, pearl clutching and hyperbole to reveal the latest findings from the Australian Personal Safety Survey.
Some AVFM articles are the gift that keeps on giving. Paul Elam shares one of those from the past and also treats us to a review of why it was and is such a successful piece of writing. He also shows us how we have feminists to thank for it.
The story of Theodore Prodromos provides an example of why men are reluctant to speak up about abuse.
