I have a friend, on another forum. Recently she was faced with a moral choice which most people would have simply been quiet about and passed over. But she stood up.
It was a matter of Intellectual Honesty and vocational courage.
I have often spoken about the need to engage young feminist women and be patient in explaining which way is up.
Two years ago this woman started to wake up and while being a damned nuisance in some people’s eyes, given to trotting out agitprop, and roundly denounced at every opportunity by ‘staunch’ MRAs with a bent to attack, she was patiently challenged to look at the truth about misandry in its many forms and the bias against men in society. She was tenacious in defence of the clear misandries and mendacities that she had absorbed over her nearly forty years. She came around to Truth with all the reluctance and resistence of a spirited wild pony.
She had a long period in AgitProp. In fact the entire period of modern feminism. Now she is a counsellor in a State Institution for Alcohol and Drug abuse.
Recently she encountered a ‘walk-in’ counsellor hired to give the ‘clients’ a talk about Domestic Violence. She was ready. Boy, was she ready.
The talk was given with all the usual one-sidedness and blame of males. Men are perps and women are victims. She challenged and prevailed, but the ‘official message’ was delivered nonetheless.
I will let her speak -
A politically incorrect move…
 I put myself out on a politically incorrect limb today- purposefully…and it could have negative repercussions- the worst case scenario: I could lose my job.
I give lectures at my place of employment to 20 to 30 clients every two weeks…my topics thus far: smoking cessation, anxiety, spirituality, and today’s topic: “Breaking the Silence: Male Victims of Domestic Violence.”
I was expressly told by my supervisor not to do this lecture.
We already have a speaker who comes in once a month that talks to our clients about DV…however, having sat in on her lecture I know the presentation to be one-sided. Females: victims, males: perpetrators. I had gone to my boss for permission to do my own presentation (a gender-neutral view), and he said no.
So I spent a couple of weeks mulling it over and decided to proceed.. not with a gender-neutral POV as originally planned, however, but with an entirely male-focused perspective instead.
The entire thing from my opening statement to the last words I spoke were politically incorrect.
I introduced the group to the word, “misandry” and it’s definition, biases in the media and the law, as well as family court, I talked to the group about VAWA, feminism, research on male victims of DV and female perpetrators, I discussed the Woods Vs. Shewry CA court of appeals decision, as well as gave some well thought out information to men on how to successfully get restraining orders and how to protect themselves.
I handed out a list of resources in WA state (they were few, unfortunately) that help men with DV issues. I answered questions…I listened to clients’ real life stories about their experiences with DV and the law. I spoke of types of control that are common to women who abuse (emotional terrorism, using children as pawns, misusing the legal system to intentionally do harm.)
Both the men and the ladies participated in a positive way in this…it was awesome.
The clients really liked it, and many shook my hand when it was over…and surprisingly, a couple of those people were women!
Looking at the lecture schedule after the fact, I realized, the lady who does the routine monthly DV lecture is scheduled to do hers the day after tomorrow. Knowing what she will present, and what I have already presented, may cause a bit of a stir…
…and it’s likely to have repercussions…
..and I’m a little bit …afraid of what they might be.
But I am not sorry. (Though that’s easy to say now, since I have yet to be fired..) Whatever comes from this, I know that my integrity is intact.
The silence does need to be broken!
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You can go to the link to read the comments that followed.
 http://antimisandry.com/sexism-misandry-discrimination/politically-incorrect-move-21993.html
A woman who speaks out with the truth is a woman to be applauded. I am rather proud to be considered a friend.
