We must speak-up and fix bad laws that allow such injustice. False accusation must be prosecuted and Prosecutorial misconduct must be prosecuted.

I agree.

Very true. Though in addition to your mentioning...

I've heard stories of mid aged gender feminists(radical feminists/male haters)such as a group of 3 to 6 to storm their state elected officials office. Act helpless, distraught, and with a sense of urgency to their problems "due to men". If the state official acts in any way to be non-caring, or precieved as non-caring? Or says anything to the contrary? These women will literally get into that official's face, point fingers, sit on the officials desk making sure "they are being heard". Or use tactics such as making a huge scene, and say things aloud to embarrass, and label. As women are always looked at as the "damsel in distress", innocent, and ever so harmless...some of these women do get away with how they act. Especially if the woman is attractive. Now if a man or even a group of men were to act like this? How far do you think they'd get? The men wouldn't make it passed the main entrance, if not already tossed out. Or charged with disrupting the peace, disorder.

Yes, there are reports of group of feminists storming state/government officials illustrating the above mentioning, demanding abortion rights, or ask what the officials standings are in regards to the subject.

In short, women do get away with a lot more than men do. I would think it is a lot easier for a woman to act out in protest, or even lashing out physically in protest - yes even in public and completely getting away with it. These feminist organizations can protest as they march down busiest streets in New York, obstructing traffic, disrupting the peace, yet...be fully protected under the law while breaking the law. Again, have a large group of men do this, and they would be quarantined by police using flash bangs and tear gas. As the men would be beaten down and arrested one by one, and be made a spectacle via media.

Marry another male.....ooh wait there's still reports of abuse in homosexual relationships. Nope, sorry...no escape there. The only difference is that the abuse happens but isn't reported or cared about because it's just male on male or female on female.

Feminist fight for equal rights when it's only positive. When it's something negative like this---they want the women to have the upper hand. It allows them to get what 'they' "lost" all these years of not being equal.

bullpcp,
"The question I have to ask myself is with the cards so stacked against the males in marriage what has the institute of marriage to offer me or any other male?"
Is an excellent question.
Women should hear this comment loud and clear when complaining about lack of commitment by men.
And here is a story of a man who is prosecuted for being a decent man and good father.

Proof that that equality women fought for....doesn't exist in all avenues.

The law can take evidence into consideration and punish those cases where the allegation is proven to be false......

The main culprit is the prosecutor. She is not the one making the allegations, but is pushing through the sentancing in leu of contradictory evidence....

There appears to be no evidence, the "prosecutor Kellett, in turn told the jury “there was no evidence that the sexual assaults did not occur”

Feminist crybabies are worse....apparently.

Please read the whole article at the link.

I'm with you!
Where do we start?
Need a leader!!!!

Count me in!

After reading your statement, I agree mostly of your mentioning... Until I read "Many men do abuse their wives and children." This is obviously your opinion. If anyone were to do ANY research, they would find that women are just as abusive, if not more than men. This includes physical, emotional, and verbal abuse. Most certainly child abuse by a long outstanding run of over 2/3rds for over 40 years. I'm not sure exactly what your resources are telling you. Though I do assume it is main stream media, and usual gossip. Media as a whole certainly keeps quiet about women abusing others. Even when it is blatantly obvious...media will never call a woman to be an abuser.

The next time you hear of a story of someone being attacked or murdered. Just think in your mind... "She attacks/murders him.... media mentions nothing about it. Or say "pending investigation as to why she did it". But...if he so even "touches" her? It would be called severe domestic violence". The man immediately arrested and charged. I guarantee this sort of example will take no less than a day to show up in the media for your observation and to take note.

Above all else, are you and I above reproach? This can certainly happen to YOU. It has already happened to my son when he was 2 years old. I too am a survivor of an estranged spouse attempting to murder me.

Better yet, call any hotline for support. Be sure to say, "I am a man and my wife is beating me, please help." Better yet, don't. Chances are YOU will be arrested due to being male and automatically the suspect/abuser due to the domestic violence training... After all, only men abuse, right? No matter how much you are bleeding, beaten, and better yet...dieing. As she walks and talks completely unscathed she is the victim.

I understand that this is a generalization, but I was speaking more in a global way. In most societies power is generally localized with men, there is a patrifocal allocation of resource, and representation. I was not saying that men are more abusive than women, hence my statement "this is not a issue of men vs. women." What I was doing is drawing on the evidence I have researched as an Anthropology major. In the study of culture, we find that a large majority of the world (but definitely not all) are patrifocal. And there are still remnants of this in our culture to this day. I was not speaking of solely the United States.

Statistics? Sources? Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001, February 2003 says 85% of victims of domestic abuse are women.

If you are an anthropology major you would know that women have been substantial figures throughout history. Especially during the tribal societies.... It has only been relatively recent (as far as our human timeline goes) that there was any gender bias within govt. Just because many of the people who wrote the books were chauvanistic, it does not deplete the influence of women warriors/rulers throughout history....
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/ancient/Ancient_History.htm
The above link is just one thing that can be found through a basic yahoo search. Being involved in medieval re-enactment myself I converse with many scholars professional and self taught.

Also there are many figures that prove DV is 50/50 or more such as http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

This bibliography examines 256 scholarly investigations: 201 empirical studies and 55 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 253,500.

MAybe it is your teachers who are biased??!!

I just came across a very interesting article about Humboldt State University Professor who was silenced because he tried to teach the truth about Domestic Violence.
http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2009/09/23/intellectual_rapists?page=fu...

Yes women have been powerful figures for ages, but the colonial powers that ended up obtaining most of the central power in terms of globalization were societies dominated by males. The religions with the largest areas of influence have to do with this, as well as fabricated and/or misunderstood medical information. I am not saying that women dominated societies didn't exist, many did and some do (and many have been destroyed and wiped out) but the entire rise in Feminism as a study had to do with a found understanding that the major colonial powers restricted womens' rights in terms of land ownership, divorce rights, and obstacles regarding education and economics.

I am not saying anything about a lack of feminine influence in the past, though you bring up the point that many women weren't allowed to publish or get educated without being in a position of power of wealth. The difference was the allowed interaction in the public sphere, which was generally restricted to men, while the domestic sphere was appropriated to women. There are counter examples of power allocation on both sides of the argument, because all types of cultures have existed. But the nations that ended up obtaining most of the land through colonial means by the 1850s were societies controlled majorly by men.

Indoctrination at its best... religions took sides on the sexes for power...... a few thousand years is really (at least anthropologically) short term. Besides I thought feminism was about equality. For true equality we must get beyond the past. I do not feel that one form of tyranny can overcome another and claim any moral high ground..... Understand the problems and work for a solution.....

If you really knew much of anything noone regardless of gender was able to publish things widely without power and wealth.... Things that were published were stricken... hell ethiopian christians have the book of Mary in their texts... Just because it may have been suppressed does not mean its gone....

If I really knew much of anything? I am going to stop talking to you.

After reading your statement, I agree mostly of your mentioning... Until I read "Many men do abuse their wives and children." This is obviously your opinion. If anyone were to do ANY research, they would find that women are just as abusive, if not more than men. This includes physical, emotional, and verbal abuse. Most certainly child abuse by a long outstanding run of over 2/3rds for over 40 years. I'm not sure exactly what your resources are telling you. Though I do assume it is main stream media, and usual gossip. Media as a whole certainly keeps quiet about women abusing others. Even when it is blatantly obvious...media will never call a woman to be an abuser.

The next time you hear of a story of someone being attacked or murdered. Just think in your mind... "She attacked him.... media mentions nothing about it. But...if he attacked her? It would be called domestic violence."

Are you aware that Australia, numerous areas in Africa, Ukraine, and the UK(despite violent petitions/protesting from large feminist groups - yes there are men in these groups too, though primarily women in regards to women rights)all have hi accounts of male victimization regarding domestic violence? Though Africa and the UK are the highest ratings of physical assault to male victims. Africa has been violent for ages in the domestic setting. It is odd we're not hearing anything about this in our media. Instead we hear a lot about human trafficking of females by older men. Yet, we never hear of the human trafficking of young males(children & teens)forced to do hard labor. Thus we never hear about the human trafficking of females by older women(not men)in Russia, Japan, and Korea - which is the vast majority of human trafficking. I was in the US Army active duty while I completed a tour in South Korea(10 kilos south of North Korea - combat zone). I talked to some of the Russian women down range. Several Russian women who spoke a bit of English(no, not prostitutes) told me of how a older Korean woman(Asima = a respectful older or married or able to be married Korean woman)promised to take them away from their poverty, and give them a new home, food, and shelter...only to find out that Asima made them work in bars, and as escorts. If Asima felt that one of her women were getting too fat? Asima wouldn't give her any FOOD for a few days, though continue working as she has her "debt" to pay back Asima. At first I didn't believe these young Russian women at all because as a US soldier, we are warned about the women there, and not to trust them. Which is the run of the mill. Not till several women have said the same thing. The more I came in contact with the public Korean nationals, the more these Russian women would talk about their enslavement.

As you have studied global issues, I'm sure you've already heard about all this. Though, I'm just wondering as to why gender feminists don't mention these enslaved Russian women, nor about Korea. Perhaps it is due to women enslaving younger women? Not men?