Incredible... http://www.cafemom.com/articles/in_...paign=prism&utm_source=outbrain&utm_content=0 He should have gotten 5 years.
Not women who beat women? Or women who beat men? Women beat men, get in absolutely no trouble, and the man can't fight back or he'll go to jail, and obviously no one will believe his girlfriend beats him.
I agree BP, my mom was in an extremely abusive marriage before she met my dad. Nothing ever happened to the guy and she was just happy to be away from him. With that said, women who fake abuse or use the courts to get back at their ex make me even more angry. They're taking the pain and suffering of the hundreds of thousands of women who were abused without any justice and using it as a weapon. The courts give a lot of leeway to women who claim abuse, so for people to lie and use that trust just makes me sick.
I had a friend with a DAD abused by his wife. I actually witnessed him getting the shit beat out of him for spilling a drink. Blood, kicking him while he was down and throwing him against the wall. She was a big girl too.
Among many other hits, mine once hit me in the eyes and broke my glasses in half. So I wired them together and she ridiculed how they looked for months till I replaced them. If I ever pushed her back she'd go take a picture of her supposed bruise. I found a big wicked knife she kept under her mattress. Her next husband got her to a psychiatrist and later divorced her to save his heart. Nowadays she only pushes me down steps when I come to hang out with my son. I am really offended when I see all this 1-sided manhatred. Men don't tell. There are just as many nice men as women, and just as many mean women as men.
Actually I had a wife that was abusive, especially mentally. But she would actually try and make fun of me every time we were in public. I actually have a scar on my left ankle where she stabbed me with a knife when I was running away from her. Then she was finally arrested when she came home drunk as hell and broke a coffee cup on my right eye. When the police came; I figured I was gonna get arrested since I was a guy. They took her away and charged her with domestic violence. You speak truth. It's embarrassing for a man to be in an abusive relationship and we usually keep quiet.
Oh yeah. The husband before me, they had guests over and she went at him with an air gun or BB gun. He and the guests ran out of the house, guests went home, and she locked him out for hours. She put a gash in his forehead. Okay, enough, I'm a man and there will be no more stuff told. My job is to be the beast of burden, not whine.
...three women die at the hands of their intimate partners in the United States every day. That's over 1,000 women murdered by their partners every year. I'd call that mass murder. Where's the prolonged media and Presidential outcry? Maybe if they all were murdered together at the mall someone would make a big deal out of it.
I looked it up. Men killed 3317 women. Women killed 1403 men. This is a 70 to 30 ratio (2 1/3 to 1). http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/gender.cfm There were 14,612 murders in 2011 in the U.S. http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm Note: This information is well-hidden. I had to keep rewording my search and finally found the above. I had to multiply the rate times the total myself, since no source would answer my question. Note: From the slanted media coverage I read every day, I expected a ratio of about 15 to 1, not 2 1/3 to 1. When you read the daily news, do you find that 30% of all articles reporting one gender murdering the other, are about a woman who murdered a man? Neither do I.
What makes me sad about the article is that it sounds like the two are still together and dad asks for privacy so they can just work it out. The one thing I know about domestic dispute is that it doesn't get better, it gets easier to repeat and escalates. Most of us have been touched by it. My next door neighbor was murdered in a domestic dispute in 1977. My best friend was murdered in a domestic dispute in 1987. One of my roommates in college had a mom that abused her dad and it was just as distructive to the kids (the roommate was scary crazy). I wouldn't be surprised to see these people back in the news for something worse down the line.
What if he had just pushed her grouchily and not violently, and she tripped and hit the cage face-first? I'd like to see if the police report really uses the phrase "slammed her head into a metal trash can cage." My point isn't that it's okay to beat women, far from it. My point is that the author of this article seems to be using some pretty strong words to describe the incident (which could be an indicator of an agenda), and those same words may or may not have been used in court. Here's why I'm VERY hesitant to judge either way when I read something from a single source: When my niece was about five or six, I was in a friend's garage playing ping-pong when she started to walk in the door. At the same time, I was reaching for the ball which had rolled over next to the door, and when I stepped back my (rather hefty) butt hit the door (which was by then a little less than half way open) and the doorknob was knocked into my niece's forehead. Popped her pretty good, and left a pretty gnarly looking bruise. When talking to her uncle (my sister-in-law's brother), he asked her what happened, and she told him "Uncle Dave hit me with the doorknob." Dude was fixin' to come at me like a spider monkey, thinking I was beating up a little girl. If my sister-in-law hadn't actually seen it happen and stepped in to convince him that what I said happen was really true, it probably would have come to blows. Knee-Jerk reactions aren't always the right reactions. In the case of the Congressman's son, I can see how the injury could be much worse than the severity of the attack, but since he's in Congress, he won't get the benefit of the doubt from me. I smell misuse of influence...
