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klaatu <root@earthops.org> wrote:

>>>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.

excuse me? what does "men being men" mean?
>>>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!>).
a real psychological thing? Are you a psychologist perhaps?
>>>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.

uh huh. You don't like women very much do ya?
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Rex
>>>> rex@intr.net

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