#DuluthModel creator admitted she "turned a blind eye" toward female violence

YetAnotherCommenter · 2013-05-03T05:46:05+00:00

The money quote from Ellen Pence herself:

"In many ways, we turned a blind eye to many women’s use of violence, their drug use and alcoholism, and their often harsh and violent treatment of their own children."

Reference: 10 Pence E. Some thoughts on philosophy. In Shepard M and Pence E (eds.): Coordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence: Lessons from Duluth and Beyond. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers, 1999, p. 30.

The Duluth Model describes one subcategory of domestic violence, not the whole phenomenon. But of course, "women and children in danger from evil villainous brutes!" just pulls the heartstrings and totally plays into the traditional gender role mentality...

The idea that DV is principally about patriarchial terrorism is the logical outcome of Radical Second Wave Patriarchy Theory. If you posit that male dominance as the all-pervasive base of society then you'll gladly ignore empirical evidence, or twist it, so as to slot it into the theory. Treating theories as 'more real' than facts is just Cartesian-Rationalistic/Platonic epistemic idiocy.

CrossHook · 2013-05-03T11:52:12+00:00

Ellen Pence oughta be proud of herself. She was able to hide many male victims of domestic violence for decades to come. What a good little feminist.

oneiorosgrip · 2013-05-03T11:44:58+00:00

Gotta point out that in the discussion under an article posted in /r/Canada on Earl Silverman's death, it was stated by one feminist that his shelter wasn't funded because it housed abusers with the abused, and that is in violation of Canadian law granting funding to abuse victim's shelters.

This article points out the fact that women's shelters have been doing so all along. I wonder if the Canadian government, upon learning that, will defund all of the women's shelters in Canada, since they're apparently breaking the law.

DerickBurton · 2013-05-03T10:19:31+00:00

"What prevented evidence of other forms of domestic violence from coming to the surface? One answer to this question comes from one of the original domestic violence activists, Ellen Pence. Pence was the author of an important book about domestic violence and the influential Duluth Model (discussed below). She was also the founder of the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project. Pence admits that there was an effort to avoid issues related to women’s violence and highlights the neglect of female abusers:

In many ways, we turned a blind eye to many women’s use of violence, their drug use and alcoholism, and their often harsh and violent treatment of their own children."

ಠ_ಠ

Bohica69 · 2013-05-03T15:49:10+00:00

The good news: that fat, ugly diesel dyke is dead. :)

Title	#DuluthModel creator admitted she "turned a blind eye" toward female violence
Author	notnotnotfred
Upvotes	76
Comments	14
Date	May 3, 2013 4:33 AM UTC (13 years ago)
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