The New York Times: Domestic Violence

Imnotmrabut · 2014-03-16T20:09:51+00:00

the single greatest cause of injury to women ages 15 to 44.

First paragraph Woozle invalidates all else! Don't bother reading

EDIT - and it gets better as the Woozler is "The writer is an assistant clinical professor of law and director of the Domestic Violence Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law." You Couldn't make it up - Academically Incompetent.

edtastic · 2014-03-16T22:18:50+00:00

From link:

I thank Nicholas Kristof for focusing on the serious problem of domestic violence in America. But he makes the classic mistake about domestic violence offenders when he emphasizes the need for “training programs.” They are no substitute for jail terms and criminal justice penalties.

"Domestic violence is not an anger management issue. The vast majority of men who commit domestic assaults against their female partners otherwise show restraint and control every day and live law-abiding lives. But in their relationships with women, they feel free to “lose it” and abuse their partners physically and/or emotionally. Violent assaults are violent assaults. Period. Male violence against women and girls is an extension of the sexism that permeates our society. Until we demand that domestic violence assaults are dealt with in the courts and punished accordingly, victims will continue to be harmed and killed in alarming numbers.

"There are important movements underway to address the issue firmly and effectively, such as the groundbreaking New York Model for Batterer Programs. It’s time that we as a society hold male abusers truly accountable for their violence and abuse against women and girls.

PETER HEYMANN Rosendale, N.Y., March 10, 2014

The writer worked as a supervisor at a social services agency that used the New York Model for Batterer Programs.

From the organization they work for:

*Now let me show you what the do at the "New York Model For Baterer Programs" which should be called The New Intersectional Duluth Model: *

‘Treatment’ or ‘rehabilitation’ suggests individual pathology. The NY Model does not define domestic violence as an individual pathology but rather as a manifestation of sexism, deeply rooted in the history, law and culture of the United States. Furthermore, centuries of patriarchy have defined men’s relationship to women in terms of ownership and entitlement, making it men’s right and responsibility to control the woman who is “his,” and to use a wide array of strategies to do so.

Translation:Domestic violence is ONLY men hitting women so it must be sexism like feminist thought in 1975

Batterer programs are a smokescreen. Batterer programs point to the number of men enrolled, as if they are the only ones committing acts of domestic violence. The number of men who are actually committing acts of domestic abuse is exponentially larger. We believe that the vast majority of these men will never be seen in a court of law.

In fact, most men who are being abusive are doing so in a manner that is not against the law and would not be ordered to batterer programs anyway.

Translation: Must control all men all the time

Men can change. However, batterer programs are not an effective vehicle. Individual men can change. They always have and will continue to do so. Sex role socialization norms for men and boys can change. They too will continue to do so. Community standards for acceptable male behavior towards intimate partners can change as well. They can. And they must. The question is whether batterer programs contribute to, or detract from, this goal.

*Translation: boys gender roles must be made in our image, we must set community standards because communities can't be trusted to think for themselves *

Suzanne Pharr said that the greatest single failure of the battered women’s movement was that we became too much of a service delivery system and too little a social change movement. (Suzanne Pharr, economic and social justice organizer, founder of the Women’s Project, Little Rock, AR)

Translation: Not exploiting social service systems enough to push our ideology

It was at this same time that batterer programs were born prematurely. Serving individual men and/or helping them to stop being abusive was intuitively right and sensible to many. Decades of anecdotal experience, research and tragic failures, however, have proven it was wrong. Our hopes and expectations were misplaced. “It is time, even overdue, that we think about what this means without fearing the possible damage that a realistic appraisal could do to the [batterer program industry]. The NY Model suggests batterer programs may NOT need to go – just the expectations of what they can do.” (O’Sullivan 2005)

Translation: We needed an excuse for unlimited mission creep

We do our work within the context of an understanding of oppression. The United States of America, brilliant in its construction, was none the less built on laws and policies that were overtly sexist (i.e. women could not vote), racist (i.e. slavery), classist (i.e. land-owning entitlements) and otherwise favoring of some. Though much has been done to redress these early paradigms, oppression theory explains the disparities that continue to exist.

Translation: Intersectional feminism will fix everything! Classic SJW boilerplate idealistic power grab by pimping female victim of violence. They might as well be pushing Jesus, it would sound more genuine

On issues of oppression, there are very different experiences for those who are privileged and those who are marginalized. A significant feature of our understanding of oppression is that the privileged may truly not see, feel or experience the privilege. At the same time, those who are marginalized are aware, often in a moment by moment way – of the impact of the oppression on them as individuals, on their communities and on their entire group.

[Click to download reference article: White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by Peggy McIntosh, 1988]

That's right, now white privilege causes domestic violence, you heard it here first

NY Model batterer programs accept the realities and implications of oppression theory in all aspects of program development, service delivery and community coordination.

Jobs and grants for people with useless degrees who think society is a lab for their ideology and social science is the summation of their opinions at the moment

Title	The New York Times: Domestic Violence
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Date	March 16, 2014 7:16 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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