Yeah right, released at, and presumably commissioned by, the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters... Think they might have an agenda? Both that news report and the pdf document linked to clearly show an implicit assumption that all domestic violence is done by men. It's not. Long term study by the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire has found that men are just as likely to be victims of domestic violence as women, women and men are the instigators of violence about a quarter of the time each, half the time it's mutual brawling, unclear who struck the first blow, and domestic violence occurs in only 3 to 4 percent of families. Those are admittedly American results, but given the cultural similarities it's hard to argue that things would be much different here.
Wish I could give a link to the source I'm citing there, it used to be at urbanlegends.com but it's been archived and is no longer available online, though I did find a listing for it in an archive. It's item 5 on the list at this page: tafkac.org
Wasn't "free love" a "liberal" mindset?Not sure about that. The conservative mindset has its own qualities and features . A more liberal thinking mindset is probably more prone to be liberal and more open.
Would be interesting to see if any research has been done on this topic.
Is this part of Alberta's "conservative" values???
And here we so wrongly thought that Alberta was rather progressive .......:-(
Not that I put a lot of credence in this particular study, but.... did you notice the part where it states that no other province has bothered to do similar studies/polls? So, you're comparing it to.... nothing... and deciding that you can infer something based on it.
Although I agree with DS on that, and I acknowledge that female violence is also a problem....I think men are MUCH better equipped to defend themselves.....(although then they go to jail, and are added to the domestic violence statistics as the instigator)
As Anna would say; "they're troglodytes, barely connected to the human species."
No, you just stated that it stands to reason that it would happen.... no, it does NOT stand to reason. Like I said, it's called self control, and any man that can NOT control himself, well, he ain't much a fuc king man.
I am surprised that you would contend that women who weigh 600 lbs and dress like lumberjacks are as frequently victims of rape as women who wear nothing but underwear and wiggle their body parts in public.
How about we do our own poll on here ??
Those that approve of violence against women
Those that don't.
Seems that this is a black and white situation.
My vote: Totally against it.
I personally don't participate in sexist polls.
I personally don't participate in sexist polls.
Imagine one of these scenarios. First, you're at a nice restaurant, across the way you can see a table with a man and a woman deeply engaged in conversation, and suddenly you see the woman slap the man across the face. What do you think happened? Second, reverse it, you see the man smack the woman in the face. What do you think happened? And what does it mean if your answers are different in each case?