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Sex, Lies, and Datatapes of the Partner Abuse
Industry
The domestic violence industry is reeling from a
recent series of high-profile scandals, leaving
abuse workers to wonder how things could have
possibly gone so wrong.
First the Sex.
Recently a woman described her stay at an abuse
shelter. In shocking detail, she recounts how
threats and bullying had become commonplace among
the shelter residents. Once a resident punched her
forearm, screaming at her, “bitch!” One
night another woman assaulted her, injuring her
back and forcing her to seek medical attention.
The woman also recounted lesbian advances by a
shelter employee. “If you become her
girlfriend, you will be treated very good, I was
100% sure,” the woman sheepishly explains. On
another occasion she was referred to a local
lesbian attorney whose fetching assistant was
“dressed like she was in a
nightclub.”
This is a video that has to be seen to be
believed: www.vimeo.com/790290
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Sexual harassment of women in abuse facilities
is not uncommon. I have personally spoken with
other women who were pressured by shelter workers
to engage in lesbian sexual activity in return for
better accommodations and special perks.
Now for the Lies.
Two weeks ago a Maryland-based think tank called
RADAR put out a report detailing numerous
half-truths and falsehoods from the American Bar
Association. The distortions are found in a
document called “10 Myths about Custody and
Domestic Violence and How to Counter
Them.”
A few of the claims are eyebrow-raisers, like
the ABA’s pronouncement that children who
witness domestic violence are more likely to get
lung disease! That’s right doc, if your
patient can’t breathe, it’s probably
because he once witnessed abuse.
And some statements are preposterous, like the
assertion that abusive parents win child custody
70% of the time. So if you want to get custody of
your kids, just tell the judge you abused them!
That’s just for starters – RADAR
compared the ABA’s 19 claims to the actual
research and found only two of the 19 are true:
www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARreport-Myths-of-ABA-Commission-on-DV-Summary.pdf
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Score one for the tin-foil hat crowd!
Ready for the Datatapes?
Family researchers Murray Straus and Katreena
Scott recently released a report that documents how
the domestic violence industry routinely hoodwinks
the American public. “Gender Symmetry in
Partner Violence” exposes all the tricks:
falsifying research findings, blocking funding, and
harassing researchers who cross the feminist party
line: pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/V70%20version%20N3.pdf
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In one case professor Suzanne Steinmetz released
a study that proved males and females are equally
likely to perpetrate abuse: “Anger over this
resulted in a bomb threat at her daughter’s
wedding.”
Imagine a cabal of women threatening to blow up
a white-dress bride on her wedding day – and
in the name of stopping family violence!
Like a cancer that ravishes healthy cells, the
corruption of the domestic violence industry is
spreading to government agencies, as well.
In West Virginia, any domestic violence program
that wants to receive government funding must have
one-third of its staff certified by the
state’s Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a
group that rejects on ideological grounds the
suggestion that men can ever be abuse victims.
So earlier this month a group called Men and
Women Against Discrimination filed a discrimination
lawsuit, charging the state “has unlawfully
delegated the appropriation of public funds into
the hands of a private entity, i.e., the West
Virginia Coalition Against Domestic
Violence.”
False allegations have become endemic, as
well.
Last month former Olympic ice skater Oksana
Grishuk accused James R. Halstead, a wealthy
California investor, of dropping a date rape drug
into her drink. Grishuk had won two gold medals for
Russia in the 1990s.
The two had been involved in a lengthy romantic
relationship. But when Halstead refused
Grishuk’s request to tie the knot, she
furtively slipped the pills in her drink.
The Orange County judge dismissed the case last
Monday after it was reported she had demanded of
her ex-boyfriend, “Can’t you find me a
man with money who could take care of me?”
Lesbian advances, propaganda-like claims,
fabrication of research, sex discrimination, and
false allegations. All in a day’s work for the
good ladies of the domestic violence industry.
© 2008, Carey
Roberts
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Carey
Roberts probes and lampoons political correctness.
His work has been published frequently in the
Washington Times, Townhall.com, LewRockwell.com,
ifeminists.net, Intellectual Conservative, and
elsewhere. He is a staff reporter for the New Media
Network. You can contact him at E-Mail
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