Lifetime TV: A Major Radical Feminist Lobbying Machine
While Don Imus is being thrashed within an inch of his career for making neanderthal comments about the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team, and the real victims of the Duke Rape Case have finally been identified, radical feminists at Lifetime Movie Channel are committing acts of social violence against men that are far worse.
Lifetime TV (also known as Lifetime Movie Network) has become a major socio-political mouthpiece for promulgation of the sexist agenda of radical feminism. LMN’s show schedule is loaded with sexist and myopic “documentaries†about abused women.
Some of LMN’s recent hate programming includes “Every Nine Secondsâ€, “If Someone Had Knownâ€, “Broken Silenceâ€, “The Promiseâ€, “Dangerous Intentionsâ€, “Dangerous Childâ€, “Fighting the Oddsâ€, “Final Justiceâ€, “A Life Interruptedâ€, “Lies Of The Heartâ€, “The Stranger Beside Meâ€, “Bastard Out Of Carolinaâ€, and “Her Desperate Choiceâ€. Not one of LMN’s shows honestly presents the true facts of domestic violence or holds women responsible for the half of domestic violence they do initiate.[i]
LMN goes beyond broadcasting unsupportable broad beliefs about men and husbands. It is also a major lobbying mouthpiece of the radical feminist machine.
The week of March 16th, LMN is fronting a series of events at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., apparently to scare or fool Congress into passing the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA). I-VAWA is an illicit scheme intended to directly entitle feminists at the United Nations. Global feminists intend to use taxpayer dollars to force CEDAW[ii] and its array of Marcusian socialist agenda on the United States as well as the rest of the world.
LMN’s lobbying event will feature an Oedipal rendition about domestic violence by Eve Ensler. Ensler is best known for the “Vagina Monologuesâ€, which among other things glorifies sexual abuse of boys by predatory women.
As part of the Congressional lobbying event, LMN’s Sunday lineup for Sunday, April 15th features nearly nine hours of manufactured melodrama about abused women.
LMN recently scared Congress into reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. As part of this, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA) was passed, which forms a “Berlin Wall†around the United States to prevent American men from marrying foreign women, on the notion that these women are being imported as sex slaves and are therefore victims of sex trafficking.
LMN’s involvement as a feminist political machine runs deep. The National Organization for Women works frequently with LMN, highlighting LMN’s “important public education messages†about “violence against womenâ€. N.O.W is where it starts, and LMN is where a river of muck emerges in millions of homes.
Lies about men and domestic violence may have millions of victims. The Duke Rape case is the most visible: Three young men nearly went to prison for thirty years based on no evidence whatsoever. VAWA provides the funding and legal process that shaped the Duke Lacrosse Rape case. David Evans testified to this personally: “Many people across this country, across this state would not have the opportunity that we did, and this could simply have been brushed underneath the rug just as another case and some innocent person would end up in jail for their entire lifeâ€
The disgusting part of this is that thousands of men rot in American jails simply because they did not have the financial resources to defend themselves against the crushing weight of the distorted prosecutorial system created by VAWA. We do not try these cases: untested allegations are “validated†under limited procedures, and men go to jail.
Lifetime TV’s website features a large collection of feminist misinformation now considered so false that the U.N. Third Committee rejected the U.N. Secretary-Generals report, which was based on similar information.[iii] Feminist claims LMN disseminates are so unbelievable that even Russia rejected the same U.N. Report.
One false LMN claim comes from a debunked U.N. Population Fund report[iv] claiming that “one in three women worldwide will be beaten, raped, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetimeâ€.
LMN grossly distorts dating violence, claiming that “Young women ages 16 to 24 experience the highest rate of domestic violenceâ€, when in fact young university women in most nations are statistically more violent than young men.[v]
False metrics propagandized by LMN include long-debunked myths[vi] such as the now-ancient claim that “Approximately 1.5 million women in the United States are physically assaulted annually by an intimate partner. That’s one every 15 seconds.â€
In its fictional mini-series “Human Traffickingâ€, LMN claims that between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the U.S. for sale into sexual slavery each year. This wild assertion is cancelled by the truth LMN admits: despite four-year expenditures of $320-million, only 60 cases were filed and 118 convictions rendered — an insignificant 29 convictions annually — at a cost exceeding $2.7-million per conviction.
We have seen wild statistics about sexual trafficking before: Feminists claimed that 40,000 women would be trafficked to Germany for the 2006 World Cup Finals. Despite massive expenditures, police found just five cases.
LMN proudly “partners†with a large network of federally-entitled radical-feminist organizations, who misuse federal monies to generate massive quantities of false surveys and to buy propaganda time in the media, to loosen up more federal entitlements. LMN is, of course, a corrupt profiteer in this venture: these shows are ultimately partially or fully funded by taxpayer dollars as grants to feminist production houses.
When is Congress going to do the right thing and revise or rescind the Violence Against Women Act? Congress would never permit PBS to violate fairness-in-broadcasting standards, or to lobby Congress with our federal dollars in the broadside manner demonstrated by LMN. The misinformation LMN expounds is essentially identical to serious misrepresentations of fact that caused PBS to quietly but unapologetically withdraw its documentary “Breaking The Silence†in 2006.
Anyone upset about Don Imus should be much more concerned about the Lifetime Movie Network. Imus’s comments did not actually harm anyone. LMN’s agenda wreaks havoc in marriages and emotivates passage of laws based on the deeply sexist, anti-marriage political agenda of radical feminism. This creeping agenda has led to a national divorce rate of over 50%, drives today’s record rates of non-marriage and illegitimacy, and is the primary predictor of poverty for women and children.
As an issue of corporate responsibility, cable companies such as Charter and Comcast should drop the Lifetime Movie Network from their line-up immediately. LMN’s agenda is exceptionally damaging to women, children, and men.
LMN must start planting seeds for personal growth and happiness in women, and stop planting dynamite in their heads. LMN’s programming should positively impact mental health of its viewers, not practice unsound psychological principles inculcating unhealthy beliefs that drive women to harm themselves and their marriages.
For example, viewers need policies and programming that helps and encourages alcoholic or drug-addicted women into recovery programs. LMN’s programming automatically blames men for any and all marital conflict and teaches women to resolve all problems by evicting the husband from the family. This leaves troubled women do “do it all†on less money, while children are raised by a struggling alcoholic mother.
Corporate responsibility calls for marriage-building policies and programming that helps women work positively through the common problems of marriage and aging – such as the two-year baby blues, the four-year boredom, the seven-year itch, the fifteen-year mid-life crisis, retirement, and menopause.
Lifetime Movie Network’s programming hurts far more women than it helps. Its cultish programming crudely projects all imperfections and dissatisfactions of life and marriage uniquely on husbands. In psychology, “projection†of one’s problems on another person is a classic marker of the dysfunctional personality. The teaching of mass dysfunctionality by LMN is disgusting to any reasonable person, and is absolutely indefensible on any grounds.
While we all stand for free speech, there are bright lines we do not cross. We strongly object to Don Imus’s disgusting comments about the women of the Rutgers basketball team. We would never permit the Ku Klux Klan to have a cable channel for promoting hateful or discriminatory legislation against blacks in Congress. We are disgusted about the Duke Rape Case. On these principles, Lifetime TV does not deserve a public podium for promoting false science, hate of men, and enacting federal laws intended to broadly discriminate against good men in home, family, and society.
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David R. Usher is Senior Policy Analyst for the True Equality Network and President of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, Missouri Coalition
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[i] It’s Time To Tell The Truth About Partner Abuse, Respecting Accuracy In Domestic Abuse Reporting (RADAR); [ http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARflyer-Truth-About-Partner-Abuse.pdf ]
[ii] CEDAW and I-VAWA: Promoting Family Break-up Around The World, Respecting Accuracy In Domestic Abuse Reporting (RADAR); [ http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARflyer-CEDAW-and-IVAWA.pdf ][iii] Intensive Global Efforts Bring Two Victories in One Week; Respecting Accuracy In Domestic Abuse Reporting; [ http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20061204.php ]
[iv] “Feminist Takeover Of The U.N. Is An Issue Of National Securityâ€; David R. Usher; [ http://www.newswithviews.com/Usher/david38.htm ]
[v] Results From International Dating Violence Study, Respecting Accuracy In Domestic Abuse Reporting; [http://mediaradar.org/international_dating_violence_study_results.php], data from “Dominance And Symmetry In Partner Violence By Male And Female University Students In 32 Nationsâ€, Murray A. Straus, Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41H3a.pdf
[vi] Physical Assaults By Wives: A Major Social Problem Dr. Murray A. Straus, edited by Richard J. Gelles and Donileen R. Loseke. [1993, Current Controversies on Family Violence]
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April 11th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
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April 11th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Thank you for your efforts Mr Usher.
April 11th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Thank you for providing this information about the actual nature of the Lifetime Channel, Dave Usher.
Not being much of a watcher of women-oriented cable TV channels, I had assumed that the programming featured melodramatic “bubble-gum” (love stories, chick flicks, etc.)
I hadn’t realized that the channel was being used to promote misandry, in cooperation with NOW!
April 11th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Actually, credit goes to Dave Root for catching the LMN event in Washington. I had not paid any attention to them until finding this out. It didn’t take long to figure out what they are up to.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:48 am
i dated a lady for a short time who was an avid lifetime watcher. that channel is quite possibly the most left wing male bashing station on tv. usher is right, anyone with a modicum if intellect would see it for what it is. that begs the question…do the viewers of lifetime, E, Ox, etc understand what they are absorbing, the negitive effect it has on all our lives and choose to ignore the obvious? or are they stoopit? i gotta think about that. i am not sure which one is worse.
April 12th, 2007 at 9:57 am
I agree with what has been said in this column.
Also,
“LMN must start planting seeds for personal growth and happiness in women, and stop planting dynamite in their heads.”
It is due to the dynamite planted in their heads that makes the average women just as much to blame for the war on men and fathers (and not just the feminists as I’ve said over and over). They must be held accountable as much as the feminists. They are the Implementers of the agenda of the Radical Feminist Strategists such as N.O.W..
It is also due to the fact that far too many women are susceptible to, and indeed, allow their heads to be planted with dynamite that causes me to question the intelligence of many women. The View, Oprah, or Lifetime, have regular viewers in the 10s of millions. These huge numbers justify my question.
The Imus incident is a symptom of an overly feminised society. Perhaps one day it will be illegal to hurt another persons feelings. We are halfway there with the power that the VAWA gives all women over all men.
April 12th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Denis, great post….. and agreed on each and every point.
While I rail at feminists, it’s America’s women who almost always happily accept NOW’s agenda, and the pork (privileges and entitlements) that their misandry provides for women.
And you’re spot-on with respect to the overwhelmingly female audience magnitude that allow themselves to be led around by the nose by divas such as Oprah, the characters behind Lifetime and Co.
Whenever I learn from a woman that she’s a regular viewer of such daytime TV programming, I invariably dismiss that individual from having any significant intelligence…….. or consequence with respect to my own life.
And finally, you are REALLY spot-on about the Imus incident being a symptom of an overly feminized society.
And it’s not inconceivable that one day it will be illegal to “hurt another person’s feelings” since political correctness and “feelings” seem to trump logic, fairness, and justice in America.
Before the rise of feminism, women’s feelings were not allowed to trump the more-or-less logical or rational entities from which our society was constructed: our laws, our families, our educational systems, our foreign policy.
I’m fairly certain that Elder George would have an opinion on that particular point.
April 12th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Mr. Usher – great column/article/blog….. and thanks for bringing Dave Root’s information on the LMN event to Mensnewsdaily.
Incidentally, I noted your use of the term “social violence” with respect to the foul works of misandry by radical feminists through Lifetime Movie Channel.
I realize of course that you may not have actually coined that term, but “social violence” seems to fit radical feminists’ misandry every bit as eloquently as your term “reproductive rape” (which I use in my own writing, since it describes individual women’s selfish and self-centered use of superior reproductive rights).
April 12th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
The true purpose of Lifetime TV is not entertainment but merely a radical political forum using propaganda to spoon feed deception.
Fourthwire stated, “I hadn’t realized that the channel was being used to promote misandry, in cooperation with NOW!”
Lifetime TV is a powerful political machine that uses feminist victim themes to fire up their base supporters, a very successful strategy. In addition to the actual TV programming they host a discussion forum and also conduct surveys and so- called polls regarding the particular themes.
In October 2005 Lifetime TV presented “Human Trafficking” to aid in getting bi-partisan support for the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act.
This law allows the US government to interfere with the Universal right of an American citizen to say “hello” to a lady in a foreign country with US government requiring background checks for matchmaking clients before they can communicate by e mail, fax, telephone.
The Human Trafficking series created a hysteria that matchmaking organizations were correlated with human trafficking despite the fact that there is no such correlation. A poll taken among its feminist viewers found that 55% believe that trafficking is a major problem in the USA.
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2501
They used this poll to enrage politicans to get the International Marriage Broker law passed with Lifetime TV suggesting matchmaking organizations were involved in trafficking. (There is no such correlation)
Please be aware that Lifetime is nothing more than legalized misandry. This is the type of propaganda that allow the (radical) feminists to expand the definition of criminal activities to include “Taking the car keys away” from the wife, shouting, and now writing a love letter to a woman in a foreign country is a crime. Its just part of the ever lengthening and more insane (minor) transgressions that the feminists have used to get laws passed to take away your basic human and constitutional rights.
April 12th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
I know it’s tough to monitor broadcasts such as Lifetime has, but a list of advertisers would be helpful. It can’t run entirely off contributions from N.O.W. or the UN.
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Mencken mentioned the sex-trafficking trade several times in “In Defense of Women” (http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/hlm/defense.htm), written eighty-five years ago:
“In such bilge lie the springs of many of the most vexatious delusions of the world, and of some of its loudest farce no less. It is thus that fatuous old maids are led to look under their beds for fabulous ravishers, and to cry out that they have been stabbed with hypodermic needles in cinema theatres, and to watch furtively for white slavers in railroad stations. It is thus, indeed, that the whole white-slave mountebankery has been launched, with its gaudy fictions and preposterous alarms. And it is thus, more importantly, that whole regiments of neurotic wives have been convinced…” (#18)
“Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibber is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.” (#31)
“THE TRUTH IS that the picture of male carnality that such women conjure up belongs almost wholly to fable, as I have already observed in dealing with the sophistries of Dr. Eliza Burt Gamble, a paralogist on a somewhat higher plane. As they depict him in their fevered treatises on illegitimacy, white-slave trading and ophthalmia neonatorum the average male adult of the Christian and cultured countries leads a life of gaudy lubricity, rolling magnificently from one liaison to another, and with an almost endless queue of ruined milliners, dancers, charwomen, parlour-maids and waitresses behind him, all dying of poison and despair. The life of man, as these furiously envious ones see it, is the life of a leading actor in a boulevard revue.” (#35)
“…all the prevailing gabble about white slave jails and kidnappers comes from pious rogues who make a living by feeding such nonsense to the credulous.” (#43)
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