Erin Pizzey founded the first nationally and internationally recognized refuge for battered wives in England in 1971. She has two children and two grandchildren from her first marriage. Here she shares with the AVfM audience serial excerpts from her seminal work on domestic abuse, “Prone to Violence.” This installment: Chapter 1, The Way We See It.
“Society’s treatment of men throughout history has never been one that we can be proud of,” said Susan Brownmiller, who also said men were properrty. Well actually she said that about women. But as Della Burton notes, there’s far more truth to saying that it treats men and boys that way, these days anyway.
Erin Pizzey founded the first nationally and internationally recognized refuge for battered wives in England in 1971. She has two children and two grandchildren from her first marriage. She has written: Scream Quietly or the Neighbors Will Hear, Infernal Child and The Slut’s Cookbook. Here she shares with the AVfM audience serial excerpts from her seminal work on domestic abuse, “Prone to Violence”.
The AVfM Reference Wiki is turning into a thing of beauty–one you can contribute to making even more awesome. AVfM welcomes new contributor Isaac Quill to tell us more about his own contributions there, and introduces a term we should all learn: The Woozle Effect.
“If you heap abuse on a man, while denying him the ability to respond, then you are killing that man,” says Andy Thomas of MRA London. And rightly so. A short video and some very astute observations of all involved by Andy, and some questions at the end that need to be answered.
A Voice for Men Radio is proud to host the first episode of a new show, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REVELATIONS with Erin Pizzey. Join us on this one-of-a-kind debut show that is sure to be enlightening.
Mens Rights Edmonton will be hosting a memorial for Earl Silverman – the man who founded and operated the only domestic violence shelter for battered men in Canada. The memorial will take place at 1:00pm on Saturday May 11th at the Norwood Legion in Edmonton, Alberta.
Recently A Voice for Men Editor-at-Large Erin Pizzey and a contingent from MRA London attended a conference on domestic violence where Pizzey was asked to speak. While the talk went well, she was still harassed by a feminist ideologue. Andy Thomas has the story.
Our friends at MRA London are steadily busy. This report includes one members interview with James Williams of Men’s Matters Radio and some commentary from AVFM Editor at Large Erin Pizzey, also a member of MRA London,
Yesterday the U.S.House of Representatives passed the Senate version of VAWA giving us another five years of rule by the domestic violence industry. However, the narrative has been successfully challenged.
