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Nnanji -> RE: The malevolent influence of Women’s Studies (5/6/2017 9:48:43 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Awareness
Bettina Arndt has a post up this week which brings together quite a few resources which should be of interest to anyone interested in gender equality.
The first is her article about the misrepresentation of domestic violence as a gendered issue and the growing mountain of contrary evidence which has become so inescapable that even the nutty Swedish feminists aren't buying it any more. This quote is a gem:
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Eva Solberg is a Swedish politician,a proud feminist who holds an important post as chairwoman of the party Moderate Women. Last year she was presented with her government’s latest strategy for combating domestic violence. Like similar reports across the world, this strategy assumes the only way to tackle domestic violence is through teaching misogynist men (and boys) to behave themselves.
The Swedish politician spat the dummy. Writing on the news site Nyheter24, Solberg took issue with her government’s “tired gendered analysis”, which argued that eradicating sexism was the solution to the problem of domestic violence. She explained her reasoning: “We know through extensive practice and experience that attempts to solve the issue through this kind of analysis have failed. And they failed precisely because violence is not and never has been a gender issue.”
Solberg challenged the government report’s assumption that there was a guilty sex and an innocent one. “Thanks to extensive research in the field, both at the national and international level, we now know with great certainty that this breakdown by sex is simply not true.”
She made reference to the world’s largest research database on intimate partner violence, the Partner Abuse State of Knowledge project, which summarises more than 1700 scientific papers on the topic. She concluded that her government’s report was based on misinformation about family violence and that, contrary to the report’s one-sided view of men as the only perpetrators, many children were experiencing a very different reality: “We must recognise the fact
that domestic violence, in at least half of its occurrence, is carried out by female perpetrators.”
One of the key patterns that emerged from PASK, Solberg said, was that violence in the family was an inherited problem and children learned from watching the violence of both their parents. “To know this and then continue to ignore the damage done to the children who are today subjected to violence is a huge social betrayal,” she concluded. “The road to a solution for this social problem is hardly to stubbornly continue to feed the patient with more of the same
medicine that has already been tried for decades.”
There’s a certain irony that this happened in Sweden, the utopia for gender equality and the last place you would expect misogyny to be blamed for a major social evil. But despite Scandinavian countries being world leaders in gender equality (as shown by the 2014 World Economic Forum’s global gender gap index), Nordic women experience the worst physical or sexual violence in the EU.
It's become increasingly clear that to insist that domestic violence is a result of masculinity is a misandrist view which is only sustainable if you're effectively suffering a form of mental illness. The fact that even the nutty feminist Swedes are finally acknowledging the evidence should give pause to any of you nutty man-haters with even a modicum of intelligence.
Further to that, Karen Straughan's video on why our societies' crippling sexist approach to men and women's reproductive responsibilities is responsible for the phenomenon of MGTOW is compelling watching for anyone whose brain isn't leaking out through their ears.
There's also Janice Fiamengo's lecture on Women's Studies. I was rather fond of this quote: "Women’s Studies has devolved into an intellectually incoherent and dishonest discipline replacing a callow set of slogans for real thought. It’s man-hating, anti-Western and fundamentally illiberal."
Strong words indeed. Janice and Karen will be in Australia for the International Conference on Men's Issues 2017 which is being held on the Gold Coast, so Australians, head to http://icmi.info/shop/ to get your tickets now!
Ah, all you people devoted to gender equality will just love this stuff.
Of course.... you feminists won't - because feminism is about promulgating a victim-hood myth (tears for the suffering of women) rather than the promotion of gender equality.
You're welcome.
Prediction #1: Die-hard feminists who can't think will simply try and attack Bettina Arndt's character or mine.
Prediction #2: Twinkabelle will go after Arndt, then quote a book full of gender theories as "conclusive proof" of something.
Prediction #3: Thompson will say something stupid, incoherent or factually inaccurate and will frequently combine those categories.
Prediction #4: Whoremods will respond with a meme which shows she doesn't understand the post.
Prediction #5: Lucy will continue to hate men and any post she makes will approach levels of illiteracy not seen since the 18th century.
Actually, tweak went with prediction #1, except it was an attack on me. Real close Awareness, but just like Schrödinger's cat, I think you affected the outcome. I'd say you made a good prediction.
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