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Rex wrote:
> 
> jack@threeindians.com wrote:
> 
> >http://justice2.usdoj.gov/vawo/
> 
> Wow Jack.  You mean there is an actual office of the DOJ called the
> "Violence Against Women Office".
> 
> I did not know this, until I visited the URL.
> 
> This seems to be much more sexist than a simple law.  I didn't realize
> the scope of it before.

In the words of Orwell, "all animals are equal... but some are more
equal than others".

I remember seeing some factoid sourced from some law-enforcement
statistic sheet, which said something to the effect that husband-abuse
is at least as common as wife-abuse, however men being men they were a
lot less likely to file official complaints, or even to discuss it with
other men or see physicians about it.

The difference being that as a rule men who abuse women and the women
who let them abuse them seem to be locked in some weird psychological
thingy, whereas the women who abuse men more often simply got tired of
being pushed around and gave hubby the midnight-frying-pan-treatment.
(as in: z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z <bonk!>).

But I must say that devoting an entire office of the Department of
Justice exclusively to violence against women, it's absurd. It'll stop
being absurd, if only by comparison, when they also have an office for
henpecked men.


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