Men's Awareness

This anti-male article called "If boys will be boys, men will beat women" by Gretchen Cochran references all sorts of false and cherry-picked statistics to vilify men and label them the main perpetrators of domestic violence and intimate partner violence. The main point of the article is the suggestion that schools should start programs to teach boys to "share power" with girls to prevent them from becoming abusive as adults. From the article: "The World Health Organization declared “a world-wide epidemic of violence against women” in 2003. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention followed suit." They did? The CDC report used frequently on mensawareness.com says that men are equally likely to be victims of domestic violence and that 70% of non-reciprocal partner violence is perpetrated by women. More from the article: "chalk it up to testosterone, says Frank Ochberg, an Okemos psychiatrist and former director of Michigan’s Department of Mental Health and associate director of the National Institute of Mental Health. “It’s in our nature, our genes, to use force to get what we want,” says Ochberg, whose recent work has been in support of female victims of violence." Next time you are out to dinner with a couple, watch how the male will modify his speech and behavior at the request of his female partner as not to offend her. Men walk on eggshells to treat women like they are goddesses and be politically correct just to be called forceful by other men. Whats forceful is when fathers are made to pay child support for kids they're hardly ever allowed to see except for 6 days a month, most of which time they're working to pay child support. Women use legal force to extort money from men and kidnap our children. It is also important to note that most of the articles referenced on this site show abusive women as using weapons or turning household objects into weapons and projectiles to compensate for having less physical strength than their male partners. It could be said that women use force to get what they want, too, and enjoy makeshift weapons. Here's more: "“We deserve a new wave of women’s rights,” Ochberg says." Ochberg is a MALE and says "we" deserve a new wave of women's rights. What's his problem? Here is another quote: "Pastoor places some of the blame on media portrayals of male-female relationships. She notes an incident on the MTV reality television program “The Real World,” which is geared toward teens and twentysomethings. A guy angrily grabbed a girl’s arm and pulled her into the bathroom, where it was implied he pummeled her. That’s entertainment, apparently." What the author left out is that the man who did that was IMMEDIATELY arrested for public urination after that happened (his girlfriend did not press charges) because the police were literally waiting outside of the house when they heard there was a domestic dispute. Here's more man-hating: "“The ability or willingness of the media to objectify women — to reduce them to their body parts — is not a huge jump from sexual assault,”" Sexual assault? The media objectifies women? Women CHOOSE to be objectified. They are not victims of it. Objectified isn't even the right word to describe male sexual interest in females. It is a feminist word used to vilify male sexuality. Women call most of the shots in the porn business and don't have to do anything they don't want to. Apparently men are now accountable for their actions because we're the ones who "objectify" them. This is the rest of her statement: "“People need to realize that it’s a real person, which would make it harder to justify their actions.”" Justify what actions? Objectifying them? Again, women are responsible for their own actions, choices, how ornamentally they dress and what they choose to wear or not to wear. Men do not dictate these things to women. Why is she even talking about this in a domestic violence article? Sheesh. More stupidity: "Preventing abuse comes down to creating an environment of mutual respect, says Tammy Lemmer, program manager of the Michigan Council Against Domestic Violence." So the solution is to single the boys out and teach them that there is something wrong with them for being male? That doesn't sound like mutual respect unless the girls are taught that female power and women's rights does not entitle them to hit men AND that these things are NOT gender issues. She adds: "It’s a daunting task, but to truly stop widespread violence in women, boys will have to be taught the mutual respect concepts from a very young age. “It is the only way this cycle will be broken,” Lemmer says." What cycle? The only cycle is that feminists keep putting all the blame on men and boys and denying that they will probably be just as likely to be victims when they become adults.