"Man Up" campaign by SafeIreland

GalwayGuy2 wrote: »

@Iptba

Tbh, that was a very snarky remark and I have no idea what it has to do with the man up campaighn.

Candie wrote: »

Fair enough, didn't know it was on to tar people with the brush of what we can imagine them doing.

Bafucin wrote: »

You know most of the people who agree with these campaigns actually support men and are against abuse against men also.

Bafucin wrote: »

When done against men there awful too.

You know most of the people who agree with these campaigns actually support men and are against abuse against men also.

I think sometime people here do what they accuse everyone else of assume everyone is against them.

Men are NOT seen as ogres by the world.

People smile at me in the street. They say hello. I wave they wave. Men , women etc.

You see and notice every negative thing and fail to see any positives.

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Is there a source for the figures at the start of this clip?

Child Maltreatment 2012
Children’s Bureau (Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/cm2012.pdf

Perpetrator
Parent
Father 127,654 18.7%
Father and Other 6,399 0.9%
Mother 250,553 36.6%
Mother and Other 40,495 5.9%
Mother and Father 132,557 19.4%

A government investigation into the cost to society of male violence against women. And a tax against men to settle the account. Those were two suggestions put forward by the Left Party's feminist council, led by colourful former party boss Gudrun Schyman.

Study leader Dr Elizabeth Bates, from the University of Cumbria, said: "Previous studies have sought to explain male violence towards women as arising from patriarchal values, which motivate men to seek to control women's behaviour, using violence if necessary.

"This study found that women demonstrated a desire to control their partners and were more likely to use physical aggression than men. This suggests that IPV may not be motivated by patriarchal values and needs to be studied within the context of other forms of aggression, which has potential implications for interventions."
- See more at: http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/women-more-likely-to-control-partners-with-physical-abuse-30385731.html#sthash.uHDoQ75W.dpuf

Piliger wrote: »

We unfortunately have a lot of self loathing men after the last 35 years of aggressive media feminism that has been brainwashing men by telling them from birth that they are guilty of anything and everything. Your views indicate to me that you have been neutered by this kind of nasty feminism.

You might wonder what drives me to behave in such a way or if there is some hidden reason for the inexcusable hurt I cause.

I have a theory, but it won’t be a popular one. The reality is that the roles in my relationship — like so many modern marriages — are not clearly defined. I earn money and I also match up the odd socks.

“A Labour government will introduce a Violence Against Women And Girls Bill to place women’s safety at the heart of our legislative programme”

Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will renew a pledge to ban the use of “slap-on-the-wrist” community resolutions in domestic and sexual violence cases.

Data from 15 police forces shows that there were 3,305 such uses last year, up from 1,337 in 2009.

Advice from the Association of Chief Police Officers suggests the punishment is suitable only for crimes such as minor criminal damage, low-value theft and anti-social behaviour.

“A Labour government will introduce a Violence Against Women And Girls Bill to place women’s safety at the heart of our legislative programme”

Ms Cooper is expected to say: “These figures are worrying. Domestic violence is an incredibly serious crime.

“Two women a week are killed by their partner or an ex.

“A Labour government will introduce a Violence Against Women And Girls Bill to place women’s safety at the heart of our legislative programme.”

Woman jailed for murdering husband
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-186527/Woman-jailed-murdering-husband.html

What they did was compare the results of two surveys sent out to clinicians registered with the American Psychological Association, testing what the respondents considered to be 'psychological abuse'. For the first survey, they mailshotted 1000 people to test the 'husband-to-wife' version, and 45% responded. Then 9-12 months later, they mailshotted 1000 people to test the 'wife-to-husband' version, and 26% responded. Incidentally, the demographics of the responders were identical (56% male, median age 52, 96-7% Caucasian, 78% married), and not found to be relevant.

What they found was that clinicians were a lot less likely to regard the same behaviour as abusive if it were wife-to-husband than if it were husband-to-wife. The most staggering differences in this study:

85% of clinicians regarded the husband 'treating the spouse as inferior' as psychologically abusive, but this shrunk to 54% when the genders were inverted.

66% of clinicians regarded the husband 'monitoring the spouse to always know where s/he was' as psychologically abusive, but this shrunk to 35% when the genders were inverted.

68% of clinicians regarded the husband 'forcing the spouse to discuss past sexual relationships' as psychologically abusive, but this shrunk to 33% when the genders were inverted.

54% of clinicians regarded the husband 'refusing to pay fair share to maintain family' as psychologically abusive, but this shrunk to 15% when the genders were inverted.

77% of clinicians regarded the husband 'choosing the spouse's friends' as psychologically abusive, but this shrunk to 42% when the genders were inverted.

There are 100 items in the list. There was only one area in which wives' behaviours were significantly (p<0.05) more likely to be judged as 'psychological abuse' than when the genders were inverted - concerning whether they used poor judgement relating to the children (12% vs 25%). By contrast, there were 59 areas in which the same behaviour committed by the man would be more likely to be judged as 'psychologically abusive'.

Psychologists' judgments of psychologically aggressive actions when perpetrated by a husband versus a wife.

Violence Vict. 2004 Aug;19(4):435-52.

Follingstad DR1, Dehart DD, Green EP.


Author information



Abstract

Research literature suggests that clinical judgments of men's versus women's behavior and symptoms typically rate the men as more pathological and dangerous.

To determine whether this view would extend to assessments of psychologically aggressive actions, two separate versions of a survey listing potentially psychologically abusive behaviors perpetrated by either a wife toward her husband or the identical actions perpetrated by a husband toward his wife were sent to a nationwide sampling of practicing psychologists.

Results indicated that psychologists, irrespective of demographics, rated the husband's behavior as more likely to be psychologically abusive and more severe in nature than the wife's use of the same actions.

Psychologists did not differentially rely on any of the three contextual factors (i.e., frequency/duration, intent of the perpetrator, and perception of the recipient) to influence their determination that a behavior was "psychological abuse" dependent upon whether the initiator of the psychological actions was the husband or the wife.

Future research could assess more directly the rationale for the psychologists' differing views of male versus female behavior.

In addition, more normative information is needed to inform mental health professionals as to the prevalence and severity of psychologically aggressive actions in the general population.


PMID: 15726937 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Sorenson, S., & Taylor, C. (2005) 'Female aggression toward male intimate partners: An examination of social norms in a community-based sample'. in Psychology of Women Quarterly.

Consistent with prior research, we found that men's violence against their female intimates is judged more harshly than women's violence against their male intimates. In this study, women's violence against a male intimate was judged to be less wrong than men's violence against a female intimate as well as less likely to be illegal, less likely that it ought to be illegal, and less in need of a variety of widely used interventions in intimate partner violence, including law enforcement intervention, arrest, restraining order, and firearm relinquishment.