what silicondoc seems to be saying (and this is common thinking among the uber-religious) is that if men lose their superior status in society (and become the mere equals of women – gasp), “confusion” will result, and men will inevitable become very destructive and treat women very badly. sounds like the threats of some spoiled brats.

I always enjoy reading your posts. They are articulate, insightful and on point. Thank you.

(an estimated 80% of sexual assaults/rapes go unreported).

“According to the DoD Report on Sexual Assault in the Military for Fiscal Year 2007, “There were 2,688 total reports of sexual assault involving Military Service Members,” of which “The Military Services completed a total of 1,955 criminal investigations on reports made during or prior to FY07.”

The criminal investigations yielded the shockingly low number of only 181 courts martial.
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A 1995 study published in the Archives of Family Medicine found that 90 percent of female veterans from the 1991 U.S. attack on Iraq and earlier wars had been sexually harassed. A 2003 survey of women veterans from the period encompassing Vietnam and the 1991 Iraq attack, published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, found that 30 percent of the women soldiers said they were raped.

In 2004, a study of veterans from Vietnam and all wars since, published in the journal of Military Medicine, found that 71 percent of the women were sexually assaulted or raped while serving.”

When a “movement” uses such concepts as a base for promulgating their redress of grievance, unintended consequences may arise
yeah, like getting the vote, asshat.

Recently we were in Texas at a legal gathering. We visited the offices of the local lawyers in attendance. I almost cried when I saw that one lawyer had posted pictures of the women and children involved in the polygamy case in TX. I knew that lawyer had tried to protect these victims and the court returned them to their abusers. Isn’t TX supposed to be one of the most Christian states in the union?

Actually, fundamentalists of every revealed religion are more prone to abuse toward their women and children because the Bible names men the head of the household and tells those men not to “spare the rod.”

I also believe religious men are more likely to act on emotion rather than logic and reason which might stay their hands. Religion is mainly emotion, since the revealed religions rely on supernatural phenomenon and not anything that can be logically proved.

This phenomenon is more likely tied to the pop culture of the younger generations. The younger generations of men are waaay more sexist and disrespectful of women that my (baby boomer) generation and the generations before us. It began with the Sexual Revolution of the sixties. Men started expecting sex on demand once Victorianism died and birth control appeared. Even in the sixties, if a guy took a date to dinner, he assumed he was entitled to sex. The violence followed.

Music, movies, books. Sending students from a violent ghetto culture into middle class public schools where those students had little defense against a violence they had no experience with. Instead of elevating white middle class people, bussing dragged all the younger generations down into a ghetto, gang mentality. I saw it first hand at my children’s schools. It all supplies the wrong message to young women. That’s why the younger women all fell at Obama’s feet: he’s black and completely misogynistic.

Unfortunately for so many women, excepting Rhianna of course, they discover they are in an abusive relationship after they have become financially dependent on the abuser. I had a friend who volunteered at a Women’s Shelter–a professional woman. She told me over coffee one day that she had little faith in programs offered to abused women at the shelter because she knew the underlying problem was money. If she had $100,000 dollars to hand any of these women, they would flee and their problems would be over.