Image via WikipediaDavid Warren soils the Ottawa Citizen before it even reaches the bird cage with this piece of hate filled tripe “It’s feminist slander that men are inherently violent”.The fallacies and utter nonsense spewed in the piece do not even warrant comment, though the fact that such a piece of drivel would get published may.
More to the point is the ironic juxtaposition of a breaking story of a woman killed, two small children being taken by children’s services and a man being lead away in handcuffs. Now I’m sure that the man is completely innocent (certainly till he has his day in court.) No doubt this evil woman died of her own hand and found a way to make it look like the man did it.
Just as a final thought. I wonder how these “oooo the evul wimmins is stealing my ballz” types are handling their female counterparts using “feminist” talking points about the dangers of being beaten or killed by partners during pregnancy in an effort to score points for Bill C-484? Maybe they just close their eyes and think of England.
It’s the likes of David Warren that justify the exemption – some would say ‘carte blanche’ – that C-484 offers those fundamentalist, right-wing neo-con guys who assault the women who “provoked” them.
@deBeauxOs –
AHA! Of course!
Warren just makes stuff up.
I left this note over at John Murney’s place, since he appears to have been taken in (“Are men ‘inherently violent’?”):
“Inherent” has never been the argument. Violence, however, is rather obviously more prevalent among men than women.
You’ll hear the usual nonsense about equal numbers of violent domestic incidents perpetrated by woman and men. It’s nonsense.
Statistics Canada reported in 2000, for example, that 55.7% of women and 44.3% of men have experienced spousal violence.(1) But when the degree of violence is factored in, those figures change dramatically: 40% of women experienced actual physical injury from their partners, while only 13% of men did.
More generally, you would do well to consult the exhaustive survey of the “equivalence literature” to be found in Dobash et al., “The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence,” (2) which finds that claim methodologically flawed as well as contradicted by a veritable mountain of research.
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(1)http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/000725/d000725b.htm
(2) R.P. Dobash, R.E. Dobash, M. Wilson, M. Daly, Social Problems, Vol. 39, No.1 (1992), pp. 71-91.
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This is a good point. I certainly don’t believe that men are ‘inherently’ violent. I do think that ignoring or belittling the violence that does exist does no one any good.