So — that is what I learned in “therapy school” (by the way, a therapist is not the same as a psychiatrist and I have a degree in psychology).

Just wanted to clarify that for you.

Maybe Psychiatry should start teaching its therapists that the home, the nest, is a woman’s territory (where they wield power and control and have many privileges) as contrasted to Patriarchal society, where only the dominate males yield power and control (to the benefit and privilege of only a few males). The average man is a slave in both worlds and often abused in both.

So – we stop that while we are learning about our wounded selves rather than giving ourselves “permission” to continue in what will never get us what we want.

I am always shocked at the vitriole from men who never seem to believe women can be victims and women who can never seem to believe men can be victims.

I am all for therapy (heck, I am a no longer practicing therapist) but at the end of the day people need to start by stopping. THEN they can look at the why.

But that is just me.

Fewer women beat men? because they can’t.”

No, men don’t beat women, because they are chivalrous. Patriarchal chivalry actually protects women, but women like Mary Winkler use weapons, poisons and 3rd parties to level the playing field and kill men. The later is certainly as old as time.

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h53/MRA_06/WomenStillUseWeapons1.jpg

It can be distilled down quite a bit:

More men beat women… because they can.

Fewer women beat men… because they can’t.

http://www.nfvlrc.org/LatestResearch/RecommendedBooks.htm

If you want to present honest views about domestic violence in today’s poisonous atmosphere surrounding the true dynamics of domestic violence, where witch-hunting all men is the norm, I think it should always begin by putting the grossly neglected truth first. The grossly neglected truth is that women are every bit as much batterers as men, and it is women who initiate domestic violence on a significantly greater scale than men, not in response to men’s violence. God knows men have been battered enough by the omission of truth and the female battering that preceded it.

http://tinyurl.com/37cxvq and http://tinyurl.com/33nm2q and http://tinyurl.com/2qar86

I believe it would benefit all parties concerned if
social science theory was NEGATED in further bolstering
the “special” DV court phenomenon, rather than invited to propagate exponential participation.

Well, except, of course, folks associated with the courts, whose living and self-image RELIES on the imagined conflict, rights, offense, and misery of others.
PhD in Peripheral para-ancillary anyone?
There MUST be a better way to find employment for sociology grads
than a careerer in Special Consultant to Asset Redistribution Syndrome
*sheesh*