Based on what I've seen in traditional media and social media, it's clear that feminists don't care about male victims of domestic abuse. That's a fact.. #notall. However, in my opinion, Feminists' believe that if a woman beats the shit out of a man, he can't defend himself, he don't go to the cops, and he don't talk about it. If a male victim does any of this, then he is selfish and doesn't care about women. This attitude is absolute bullshit and it needs to stop. Feminists need to realize that all victims of domestic abuse deserve to be treated the same, regardless of the abuser and the victim. All victims suffer the same.
The significance of having men who support feminist values is made clear when examining the reality of men's physical violence towards women. In the United States, girls and women are consistently targeted for acts of sexual harassment and other forms of physical violence, both within educational institutions and in other settings. Shockingly, statistics show that approximately one out of every six women in the United States have reported being victims of attempted or completed
Feminist theory views violence as a manifestation of the patriarchal structure in our culture, which is reflected in the patterns of behaviors and attitudes of individuals. Discoveries that abusive man frequently espouses more traditional views about women than do non abusive men. Conversely more recent research has found no difference between men's attitudes toward women and violent behavior toward their partners. Evidence regarding women's attitudes is similarly mixed. There is no found difference between abused wives and those in discordant or satisfied marriages in their attitudes toward women.
Reflecting upon your inquiries on the first paragraph, the male dominated perspective does not seem to serve men either. You mentioned sexual assault and violence in your post. Associating victims with female gender as well as perceiving female victims as weak does not seems to help understanding how to support male victims of assault and/or violence.
The research data released from the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment revealed that arresting the perpetrator in domestic violence incidents caused a decline in recidivism rates and deterred future events (Pate and Hamilton 1992). Policy makers largely ignored sociological research until feminists, lobbyists, and the threat of litigation pressured state legislatures to contemplate the results released from the Minneapolis experiment (Phillips and Sobol 2010). Enactment of mandatory arrest laws soon followed, however many believed that the passage of such laws was a mistake due to the inability to replicate the results in other jurisdictions. Mandatory arrest laws effectively removed officer discretion when responding to domestic violence
Domestic abuse can be traced back as far as history itself. In 753 B.C., during the reign of Romulus in Rome, The Laws of Chastisement condoned the abuse on a wife by a husband. Since at this time, men were held accountable for the crimes and actions of their wives, hence it provided a way that the husband could be protected from harm of the wife’s actions. This idea traveled throughout the world. It was not until 1829 that the husband’s absolute power of chastisement was abolished, however this is far from ending the dilemma of domestic abuse. In the 1970’s women take action in the Feminist Movement in hopes
Every minute twenty four people are victims of abuse in the United States, that’s more than 12 million women a year. People seem to wear a mask until they are behind closed doors. Abuse has affected the victim and suspect both and there are many reasons for everything.
Domestic violence isn’t just towards women, but is also a large issue against men ("When it"). This issue seems to be very underminded and society becomes one sided on the topic ("When it"). Cindy Boren from the Washington Post proves this saying “According to a 2010 study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 5 million men had been domestically abused in the prior year. And the same study found 40 percent of cases of severe domestic violence were perpetrated on men. About 1 in 4 women (24.3 percent) and 1 in 7 men (13.8 percent) have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner.”("When it"). Violence is violence period, and it is all wrong regardless of gender.
The article consisted of criticising 20th century western societal pedagogy in respect to the female reproductive system and its role in scientific studies. In retrospect for the reader, the article's purpose was to find the negative implications within scientific discoveries and societal views of gender roles. The article surprised me by illustrating how the scientific community had a misogynistic perspective on describing the female reproductive system and how it furthered skewed information. By the same token, the article was somewhat objective in noting the degrading terms found in those articles, yet gave off a subjective form of criticism that seemed to stem of a personal agenda. The article shared relevant and accurate information that
Research paradigms are belief models that create a set of practices, it is a set of shared beliefs and used to assess persons claims. It’s essentially a way of viewing the world in order to understand people’s experiences. As discussed in class there are four types of research paradigms; positivist, interpretative, critical and postfeminist. A paradigm is characterized by specific ontology, epistemology and methodology (Clennett-Sirois, 2015B). Research epistemologies address the concept of knowledge what is the nature of knowledge, etc. There are three main epistemologies in feminist research; feminist empiricism, which is the data collection of real life experiences, feminist standpoint is viewing any given issue from a feminist perspective
Feminist interpretation is one of the recent approaches in the biblical interpretive world. This approach emerged during the late 1960s and early 1970s.This interpretive method has a common theme of a movement for social, economic, political, and religious equality, and rights of women.
“85% of domestic violence victims are women” (11 Facts about Domestic and Dating Violence, N.D.) Survivors of domestic abuse who may be wounded physically and emotionally, they are a symbol of peace, courage, survival, honor and dedication to
In the text “Help for Abused Men” Jeanne Segal a sociologist, psychologist and writer who believes each of us has the capacity to make life better for ourselves and others, claims that “Many men feel great shame that they've been beaten down by a woman or failed in their role as protector and provider for the family.” Segal states that men should have the same write as women and that men are ashamed because of how people react to it. Her position is important, because believes if we all just pay attention to everyone then we would all have the same rights. If people the police would just stop making the male victims feel ashamed, then there would be more reports of female violence against men. In the text “Men as Victims of Domestic Violence” Jeremy Mull a former Police and Legal Advisor to the Police Peacekeeping and now Clark County Prosecuting who believes that everyone has the same rights, states that men who try to get help find that they are mocked and ridiculed; No one would even think of telling a battered woman that getting beaten by her husband wasn’t a big deal, but people often don’t think twice about saying that to a battered man. Mull explains that many men are too embarrassed to admit that they are being abused, because of how the police react to it. His position is important, because he shows that everyone should have the same chances in life and
96 per cent. Only 4% of men who are so appallingly abused actually report their experience to the police. This is due to men being seen as strong, dominant and resilient. They are afraid that if word gets out, they will be seen as “less of a man”. Feminists want to change this by destroying the social concept of masculinity. Men are seen as strong and emotionless and are mocked for even the simplest of things like crying. Many male rape victims are told to their face that women are not strong enough to do such a thing and that all men want is sex so he should have enjoyed it. We want to change this so men can be free to present themselves as they want to without fear of
Our culture refuses to hold women equally accountable as men for their participation in Domestic Violence. Women’s behavior whether perpetrator or victim, is understood and passed off as socialization or poor economic status. On the other hand men are held fully accountable for all of their behavior. “Despite the tough guy stereotype all boys are encouraged to embody and the abuse many bear as a normal
Many times in life men do not think that women can do the same things that they can; whether it’s picking up boxes or being president. There will always be that “macho man” thought of the man being stronger than the woman. In many jobs women might do the exact same thing that men do except men are getting paid more than women even if it is an insignificant amount, it happens in many places and even though many people disapprove of it there are still jobs like that out there. And there are still employers who think that a woman should not be in the work force if so home. Many feminist have been working to solve this problem and there are still people who are working to solve and change many more of these problems, and even though in some places it doesn’t seem like it, feminism and feminists